March 2008

Little Head Thinking for the Big Head

March 11, 2008

…as the old folks used to say. Or maybe Eliot Spitzer’s just brain dead. Am I the only one who thinks this Spitzer prostitute scandal is hilarious? I mean, a governor, former attorney general, and prosecutor, for crying out loud. Did he expect to get away with it forever? What was he thinking? Ah, there’s [...]

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The Passion of 1,000 True Fans

March 7, 2008

Some corners of the blogosphere are buzzing about a blog post written by Kevin Kelly, an editor at Wired magazine. The idea behind his post, “1,000 True Fans,” isn’t new, but it’s timely. Background: The Long Tail You’ve probably heard of the “long tail,” an idea popularized by Chris Anderson, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief. Anderson argued [...]

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Yeah, Amy Winehouse is a junkie

March 6, 2008

Update (3/10): Amy, honey, please get off the drugs and just sing. Listen to her rendition of The Shirelles’ “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” Pure gold:

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Crackdown Commences 20 Years Too Late

March 6, 2008

While I’ve been blogging about music and digital technology for the past couple of months, something interesting has been happening. More counties and states have been “cracking down” on illegal aliens and individuals and businesses that hire them. The DC area has been flooded with illegal aliens, especially Northern Virginia. Prince William County has authorized [...]

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Dallas Morning News ‘Crowdsources’ Lost JFK Files

March 4, 2008

Everybody’s heard of outsourcing, the fine art of subcontracting jobs and services to third parties. Computer manufacturers like Dell outsource support services to countries like India, for example, because it’s cheaper than hiring Americans in America to do the job, despite the fact that it frustrates American customers to speak to people with thick accents [...]

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Modern-Day Music Patronage

March 4, 2008

By popular request: The music search engine I blogged about last month was Seeqpod, and the podcast was called The Chillcast. *Scroll down for updates* I’m having one of those “wish I’d expressed the idea first” moments. I listen to a podcast called “Music Career Juice,” by Peter Spellman, owner of Music Business Solutions. In [...]

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Crips, Bloods, and Rats

March 4, 2008

Last week, I read a New York Times review of a memoir titled, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival, the story of how a “part white, part Native American girl” survived as a foster child in a black home in gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles. According to the review, Margaret B. Jones [...]