CURATORS/FILTERS They’re everything in the modern world. Unless you attach yourself to someone/something that already has an audience, your chance of succeeding is incredibly low, because there’s just too much noise. So, despite the bitching about challenging economics, that’s the power of the newspaper. It’s filtered news. And ads. And listings. Most competing with traditional […]

1. The major labels will only get stronger. We live in an a money economy and the only ones willing to invest in artists are the labels. Furthermore, they’ve got the relationships at radio, which are key to developing acts. The players want cash, the major labels have it, no one else will get involved […]

Dark star, I see you in the morning Dark star, a’ sleeping next to me No, not “Dark Star,” DARK SKY! I love this guy Slava Rubin, he’s the Founder and CEO of Indiegogo. You know how some people rub you the wrong way at first and then you become best friends? That’s Slava. We […]

This was on Techmeme days ago. That’s right, some security expert knows more than the government. The same intelligence agencies we’ve sacrificed our privacy to in order to be safe. The President stands up and denounces a country based on the protestations of an ignorant film studio, corroborated by the intelligence gang that can’t shoot […]