Neil Young’s Music Rescue Mission (Video) Protecting their business model of having people pay exorbitant amounts to attend their conferences, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and their D: Dive Into Media conference refuse to post the entire Neil Young interview online. One wonders if they too have been paying attention to what has happened in […]

Just because someone yells, that doesn’t mean you should listen. Netflix gained 610,000 subscribers in the U.S. last quarter. The company is just shy of its all time high, it’s now got 24.4 million subscribers, it had 24.59 million at its peak. In other words, the only thing Reed Hastings did wrong was react to […]

There’s a belief that if we just quashed piracy, eliminated all free access to music, coffers would fill once again, musicians would be rich and we’d enter a new golden age. But that’s hogwash. 1. Music competes. With not only video games and movies and TV, but the Net and everything on it. People have […]

Are you best off: 1. Getting 3 minutes on CNN. 2. Getting published in the Sunday Opinion section of the "New York Times" and having your column reach #6 on the most emailed list. 3. Having "a guest post you wrote, published on the blog of one lone dude in SF obsessed with fat loss, […]