1. The world is getting smaller. 2. Despite income inequality, the gap between rich and poor, consumer and company, famous and obscure, is closing. Used to be it would be impossible for the punter to reach the celebrity. Now all he has to do is tweet. 3. Image is everything. Yours doesn’t have to be […]

As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow to a Trickle No one ever reads to the end. Wherein it is stated, by both Cliff Burnstein and Don Passman, paragons of the old model, that the future’s so bright they gotta wear shades. Isn’t it funny that the artists are bitching about Spotify. You didn’t hear them […]

Too much bloviating about nothing. Either Cook, et al, deliver a breakthrough product, create a whole new stream of revenue, or Apple becomes Microsoft, a continuing moneymaker, but hardly cutting edge. OK. You’re an investor. You wanna know where to put your money. For nearly a decade, Apple was a secret hiding in plain sight, […]

HMV Did you see that story in the “Sunday Times” entitled “Music giants rush to save HMV”?  Music giants rush to save HMV Ain’t that the entertainment business, always with one foot in the past, propping up that which is going under. They don’t even listen to their own artists, what did Bob Dylan so […]