Name: Michael Croft
Weblog: www.whiterose.org/michael/blog
Articles: 17
First Published: Monday, August 12, 2002
Last Published: Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Currently listing articles 17-1:
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Review: Orbital — The Blue Album— Listening to Orbital is like going to a wine tasting. It's fun, each offering has subtilely different effects, and if you don't take
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Los Lobos: Ride This— I've always known that Los Lobos could do excellent work with cover material, and this album is no exception. It really does a good
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Katie Melua's Call off the Search: No guts, no glory— Katie Melua's Call of the Search looks like an airplane, but it never takes off.
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Six Apart Requests feedback— I am an infrequently active blogcritic, a proud member of a 1 blog, 400+ user award-winning non-commercial review site.
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Another Blog-related Firing— "Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you're no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus."
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Beer or Frappuchino? You make the call...— In other Beer, Music, and Intellectual Property News, Starbucks takes on Wrecks Bell for the name of his new beer.
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The Reliability of RIAA Filesharing Subpoenas— The RIAA said Sarah Ward was sharing 2,000 songs through the KaZaA P2P network exposing her, at $150,000 per offense, to $300,000,000 in penalties. But
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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?— A fellow BlogCritic (File 13) looks at licensing issues on Orrin Hatch's Official Senate website. Did Hatch violate the license terms of
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MS: iLoo not the shiznat— ...
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More info on the Hilary Rosen/Iraq IP story— The Register says Greg Palast's source for the Rosen/Iraq story is the WSJ. "Hilary Rosen was talking to Grover Nordquist [President of Americans for Tax
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Santorum and Texas vs. Lawrence— Senator Santorum may not be the homophobe that he's being painted, but he does a poor job of determining the harm done by a discriminatory
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Further evidence of the Onionification of Real Life— ...
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THE DIGITAL CHOICE AND FREEDOM ACT OF 2002— ...
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Justice for All, but not necessarily Liberty...— Twenty five years ago this month, Holly Maddux was murdered and stuffed in a trunk. Jury selection began yesterday for the trial of the
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Asylum Street Spankers: My Favorite Record— Everyone who writes about the Asylum Street Spankers has three jobs. Give a little bit of the history of the band, explain why they
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When Music Stars become like Authors— There will continue to be a market for selling music, however diminished — but it will have to be cheaper music. Margins will shrink even
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The Buddhacrush— Rock and Roll needs more saxophones.

