Last night I started reading the new Adam Ross book “Playworld.” It’s gotten great reviews, best of the year so far, and I loved his previous novel “Mr. Peanut.” And I was hooked by the very first sentence: “In the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah […]

“Apple’s coziness with musicians, which it facilitates in part by paying a higher royalty rate per stream than Spotify, has always been crucial to its brand” From: “Why Zane Lowe and Apple Music are betting on live radio in an on-demand era” “Los Angeles Times”: https://shorturl.at/C1kEJ Makes me crazy when the mainstream media gets it […]

The biggest business story of the past year is not artificial intelligence, but the success and proliferation of the Chinese car industry. If you’re following the latest AI news… The industry is running out of data to train its systems on. Promised breakthroughs are being pushed into the future. AI is a sexy subject, whose […]

“‘When I look at the media landscape right now, the people who are going independent, whether it’s podcasting or streaming, that seems to be where the action is,’ he said Tuesday.” https://shorturl.at/13PRo Is this like refusing to sign with a major label? The election taught the news business that not only was it out of […]