Amazon’s new e-book device from two people who I tend to read quite a bit. Mark Pilgrim and John Gruber.
For some reason I like this quote from 1984 very much
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be […]

“the future of rock and roll” was the tagline for my college radio station. It’s also makes a nice strawman at which we can throw flaming balls of analysis in hopes of lighting something up. What am I talking about here? In the next few weeks I plan on reviewing the companies that are helping […]

from coolfer, who makes the argument that fans are better off today than six years ago.
Fans are better off. There are far more ways to acquire music. (Though there are fewer retailers, digital music has allowed for new online stores and services with millions of tracks.) Recorded music prices are no higher than they were […]

NPR report on the topic. Generally, when I hear the word monetize my eyes glaze over and I stop paying attention but this was quite a good report.
“More and more what we hear from young people is, ‘I really have no need to buy that song from iTunes, or really I can’t even be bothered […]

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