Is the magazine industry vulnerable?
Though there have been countless news stories on the decline of newspaper advertising revenues and the impending doom of the industry, magazine ad sales have remained mostly steady. It seemed for...
View ArticleMissing what’s right under your nose
Sometimes I’m so focused on mining blogs in search for the obscure gems that I somehow miss the huge memes that float across the internet each week. It’s a weird occurrence, that feeling of “How the...
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Out-of-work journalist descends below New York to become subway musician
Steve McGookin emphasized to me that it’s a popular misconception that people become street performers as a “last resort,” but given his own journey leading to his decision to pick up his guitar and...
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David Scott and the art of the literal music video
His literal version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” has received over 2 million views. But how does he choose which videos to satirize? David Scott couldn’t quite put his finger on what it is about 80s...
View ArticleWithin hours of his death, online music retailers build special Michael...
Jackson’s Long Tail Will Mean Chart-Topping Pay Day For Music Sites â€â€iTunes Store, offering 41 MJ albums, devoted its top homepage promo to Jackson, saying: “You’re looking at a...
View ArticleFirst music video shot on an iPhone
Just as with the first New Yorker cover ever drawn on an iPhone, it really boils down to a gimmick that is (arguably) inconsequential, but it’s still neat. Boingboing sez: Ari Kuschnir of m ss ng p...
View ArticleThe problem with confusing the “music industry” with the “recording industry”
When you look at it that way, you begin to realize that perhaps the only real issue is that one segment of the industry is becoming obsolete. But the other parts of the industry are more than making up...
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