So, what do you get, LCD or plasma? Plasma is sharper, with better blacks.  But LCD is better in bright light.  Then again, there’s that new Panasonic plasma with the matte finish, that shows no glare. How confusing! Have you watched anything in HD?  Makes you feel like you’re at the movies.  With that rectangular […]

Was Napster a partner or an enemy? CD sales were down 32% from the comparable week last year.  Was this foreseeable? The world started to change in 1995, when AOL took hold.  Think back to that time.  People who had previously been afraid of computers, who saw no need for them, were trooping down to […]

The Zimmers "My Generation" Used to be you couldn’t reach the old farts.  They didn’t go to school, they didn’t go out to clubs, they were positively out of the loop.  Isn’t that what selling CDs at Starbucks is predicated on?  Baby boomers being out of the loop? But suddenly, baby boomers have learned how […]

We were living in a hip-hop nation.  What happened? The Internet. Hip-hop evolved into a marketing juggernaut.  The sound of the people made by performers who would endorse any product, tie in with anybody willing to pay them.  And the marketers paid them.  And the mainstream media covered the shenanigans.  And then suddenly nobody wanted […]