Isn’t this how the labels got in trouble to begin with?  By making customers buy an entire, overpriced CD to get the single, the only track they wanted, oftentimes the only good track on the album? Pulling acts from iTunes is akin to winning the pennant but refusing to play in the World Series because […]

If I hear one more time that commercials are the new radio, that no one cares about endorsements and sponsorships, I’m going to take my vinyl records and move to Tierra del Fuego. Ain’t that a laugh.  Vinyl records.  Even though I’m a big believer in vinyl, that it sounds better than CDs, it’s not […]

The reason they can’t hire anybody is everybody with a shred of tech knowledge knows it’s going to be a disaster.  MySpace is so 2006…  And its software/interface sucks.  And there was no traction with Snocap…  So suddenly, because fat cats found out social networking/Web 2.0 was the next big thing, they’re going to anoint […]

The first I heard about it was from my friend Kate, who owns a bookstore. She said she was going to be open at midnight, just like with "Harry Potter". But it didn’t stick. I couldn’t remember what the book was about, never mind its name. Then, reading an article in "Newsweek" about a vampire […]