Archive for the 'Technology' Category


It’s A Worldwide Business

Some lawyer or some manager somewhere knows why VH1 can’t be streamed outside the U.S. As my mother would say, way to win friends and influence people. The reason the old infrastructure is dying, the reason I laugh when Doug Morris and the old farts make pronouncements, the reason legal solutions are not the answer, […]

Digital Sales-Week Ending 7/13/08

TRACKS 1. Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl" Sales this week: 162,951Percentage change: -7Weeks on: 11Cume: 1,487,745 She only sold 31,971 albums total. And, of those, 6,233 were digital. Seems like a hit today is the track and the track itself. I think the sale of one and a half million copies is significant. But […]

Check This Out

From: Mike Greene While looking for innovative ways to present work/goods/catalog items… I came across this one, which is pretty damn great! HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam. In June of this year, HEMA was sold to British investment company Lion Capital. Take a look […]

Rock Band/Guitar Hero

The new rap or the new hula-hoop? The flurry of "Rock Band"/"Guitar Hero" announcements has my head spinning. What with Aerosmith releasing their own game for the latter platform and Guns N’ Roses releasing their new single on the former, one would think the videogames are the new radio/MTV/retail store combined! Actually, that’s what Activision, […]