I went to a show and it took all my willpower to refrain from dipping into my pocket and checking my iPhone. An e-mail would be nice, or a text, but in my fingertips I hold a personal link to the entire world, and this has changed not only my behavior, but that of the […]

SoundScan #1: Jack Johnson “From Here To Now” Sales: 117,260 Debut Entered the chart at number one! Got ink in every major newspaper! But the single, “I Got You,” has 1,157,909 plays on YouTube. Not bad…in 2011. But in 2013, when Miley Cyrus has 173,715,141 views of “Wrecking Ball,” I ask you…who is the biggest […]

Got your attention there, didn’t I? If you want to know the future for all media, look to pornography, it leads the way. Porn was the first to videocassette, the first to DVD, the first to the Internet, and the first to be eviscerated by the Web. Wait a minute? It’s EVERYWHERE! There’s more porn […]

The Internet is maturing. What does that mean? Stunts will be scarce and the odds of going from obscurity to fame are dropping ever lower. Remember when record labels used to sponsor YouTube contests? Those evaporated. You can’t ask people to make clips for a small prize when they’re too busy uploading their own concoctions […]