Terry Semel doesn’t get it. The problem with the straight press is they love all the old horses.  Until a new horse comes riding in to steal the old horses’ thunder.  And all eyes avert. The Street doesn’t predict change, it only reflects it. Case in point, Barry Diller.  He was profiled as God everywhere […]

iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple? God, and I thought Steve Jobs was a Democrat. God, with no instructions, with no advance warning, who is the PRICK who thought this up.  And what’s the advantage to the customer?  Put Apple first.  Put the labels first.  And the consumer abandons you.  […]

Holy fuck, the labels are SCREWED! Did you watch the Macworld presentation?  It’s not easy, there are too many hits.  I couldn’t even get the video to go until now, at almost midnight.  The music business used to understand this paradigm.  One of UNDERPLAYING THE MARKET!  Instead of the baby band playing arenas the very […]

Is the new Woodstock. How is it a company purveying inert products has usurped the eyeballs of the world from the creative community? Pursuit of excellence. While the movie companies remake television shows, and genre films like "King Kong", the public ignores their efforts and looks to a relatively small entity to DAZZLE them. Been […]