For years we heard that advertising would make your numbers online. That you could get rid of your real world product, put it on the Internet, and with all the eyeballs attracted, you could charge a fortune for ads and end up rich. Only this didn’t turn out to be true. Just ask the “New […]

Downloads are killing the music business. There’s enough anti-streaming venom in music to kill the industry. Whether it be artists angry at Spotify payouts or labels still holding on to CDs and trumpeting downloads to investors, neither can see that streaming has already won. With Pandora. With YouTube. It’s what the customer wants, but the […]

Since so many enjoyed my Buyer’s Guide… I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine: “My computer is dead, dead. Luckily everything is backed up. The bad news is I don’t have the time and money for this… I need to go buy a computer first thing in the morning. No more PC’s. […]

Twitter is a news service. It’s been shaking intermittently on the Westside for a month now. And if you were here during the ’94 big one, and it was pretty big, let me tell you, you’re afraid. We like to feel in control. But during a quake, we’re at the mercy of the world, there’s […]