While you were sighing in relief because you weren’t mentioned in the Mitchell Report, here’s what we’ve been looking at:
While you were busy adding new Facebook applications, here’s what we were looking at:
While you were sitting at home reading stories about the writers’ strike that were written by writers who won’t be striking, here is what we were sitting at home writing about:
While you were wondering if the Colorado Rockies were ever going to lose another game ever, here’s what we were looking at:
- Scalpers vs Teenage Girls – And the winner is . . . Billy Ray Cyrus!! Also, good on Ticketmaster for going after the auto-scalpware makers. Two sentences that I thought I would never write.
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The Wilco Songs on TV Shows Watch – Well, that was a bust. What we thought was a trend turned out to be just a coincidence, after all.
- Can The Music Industry Really Have It Both Ways? – They’ll try, but in the end, they aren’t going to have it any way. Except, of course, by suing each and every single one of us.
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The Kucinich Campaign Stumbles Into Second Life – All of this talk about the nerds taking over the country and yet the nerdiest candidate in either party can’t get enough love despite his obvious greatness?
- The Week the Music Industry Came Unraveled – Somewhere, over In Rainbows, Music Executives cry: “If Radiohead sells loads of In Rainbows, then why, oh why, can’t I”
- Will Total Music Be Total Crap? – And will anybody even really care, for that matter?
- Prepare for the Worst: 4 Simple Digital Media Backup Solutions – Because you want to make sure that all of that music you’ve ripped is safe. Forever.
- Ash in a Digital Earn – Rounding out our “Dancing on the Ashes of The Music Industry’s Grave (Yes, That Is A Mixed Metaphor) Week,” Tim offers his thoughts as he discovers one of his favorite bands, Ash, is rerouting their career focus. Because, now, they can.
While you were wondering if the Colorado Rockies were ever going to lose another game ever, here’s what we were looking at:
- The YouTube Result: Democratizing Reporting – One of the many disruptive results of YouTube has been the rise of the citizen-journalist-vlogger, in this case Talking Points Memo’s new daily videocast, TPMtv.
- The Medialoper Review of Spiral Frog – At this point, I’ve pretty much run out of things to say about it. Let’s promise not to speak of it anymore.
- How Amazon’s MP3 Store Will Challenge iTunes, and Why Steve Jobs Doesn’t Care – The Amazon store could be one of those rarities: a win for all involved. Including the consumer.
- O’Reilly Seeks Proposals for Second Annual TOC Conference – Get cracking on yours today!
- The Gingrich Who Stole Second Life – Remember what Wired said all of those years ago: “Friend AND Foe.”
- Radiohead OKs Computers – After wading through the unintuitive mid-1990s jungle of the In Rainbows website, I finally figured out how to pre-order my downloads. It remains to be seen if, on Tuesday, I’ll be able to get the songs.
- Doomed But Loved: Friday Night Lights – Sigh. After all of that, they have to hit us with the shark-approach of the newest twist in the Tyra/Landry storyline, which is the worst thing to happen to a show I love since the newly-minted-possibly-retcon Cylons on Battlestar started quoting Bob Dylan.
- Ode To A Simpler Time – Kassia likes Mad Men, the little-watched show on AMC that will probably go down the best TV show to debut this year.
