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The Question Is How Fast? — Superchunk & Social Networking
I love Superchunk. Almost as much as I love The Replacements. To me, the two bands have always gone together. Their best songs share wry lyrics, anthemic yet melancholy melodies, and a unique sense of...
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MySpace as the Man In The Mirror — The Music Biz Turns On Itself, Again.
Interesting back and forth regarding MySpace from a Robin Davey/Hypebot post this morning, entitled “Why The Decline Of MySpace Is Great For Musicians”. Spolier Alert: Excerpt from the Robin Davey...
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Paid scale? Spolier Alert: No one here embarrasses themselves. Did You Notice?: Everybody’s favorite CEO-whipping boy looks pretty darn relaxed here.
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Stakes Is High: Twitter & Egypt.
As De La Soul once said, “The Stakes Is High”. In the last 24 hours I have been riveted by the news from Egypt — the vast majority of it delivered as real-time reporting and analysis, via Twitter....
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What is Facebook, Really?
Bruce Warren, who publishes the terrific music meets web-culture Some Velvet Blog, turned me on to this smart little piece from Jeffrey Rayport and The Harvard Business Review. Spoiler Alert: Rayport...
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The Football Commissioner & The Music Biz–Change Before You're Forced To.
He embraces the new. “Change before you’re forced to”, Goodell told owners. “Find a better solution”. This from Sports Iillustrated’s cover piece on the trailblazing and enormously successful NFL...
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When Lady GaGa Met Steve Jobs — She Pooh-Poohed Ping? (Decoding Lefsetz)
From the Lefsetz Letter dated 2/5: I don’t want to tell tales out of school. But Jobs shows GaGa the latest Apple creation and GaGa says it sucks. Steve didn’t like this, he argued. But that’s what...
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As if this wasn’t meta enough, please note the clip is courtesy of Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily.
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Social Media Explosion — Not The Same As it Ever Was
There is a illuminating Social Media piece this morning from Jake Hird at eConsultancy. In it, he lays out the numerical growth of Social Media over the last 12 months. This is explosive growth....
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Jimmy Buffet & Rickey Henderson — So He Sez (3rd Person Edition)
“They come up with storyboards and lines, and I see the process. Then, I do what I do: Buffettizing.” — Jimmy Buffet, singer-songwriter and touring phenomenon, on his role in developing the new...
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