Gulltaggen 1. The WikiLeaks guy had a crowdsourced phone. It runs Linux. And it’s the first mobile device he’s had in years. You see Daniel Domscheit-Berg is concerned about privacy. He told a story so hair-raising…the hair I don’t have stood on edge. IBM helped the Nazis. Hitler invaded Poland and how did he find […]

It’s time for a divorce. Our focus on tech has been so all-encompassing that music has suffered. But those aren’t our people! The coders, the MBAs… They think differently. MBAs are first and foremost about the money. Great musicians are first and foremost about the art. That’s the number one e-mail I get, HOW DO […]

BOOKSTORES There was a front page story in the “New York Times” on the dearth of bookstores in Manhattan. I’m sick and tired of all the baby boomers lamenting the loss of yesterday. Sure, rents are high, sure Manhattan is quick becoming an artist free world, but that’s because of income inequality, the loss of […]

The streaming music service, not the headphones. The headphones are going bonkers, despite every audiophile in the world castigating them for their bass-heavy frequency response, turns out music is a fashion item and everybody wants to be fashionable. Easier to spend a few hundred dollars on ear cans as opposed to a Rolls-Royce or a […]