Tag Archives: Media

Sean Ross, who used to be editor of Billboard’s Airplay Monitor, has picked the songs he thinks changed radio this year – do you agree? Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow, “Picture” – It wasn’t being worked aggressively to radio, but radio found it – even at a time when programmers …

This sounds all good – the FCC wants to know what you think: FCC OPENS PROCEEDING ON SMART RADIOS In light of the ever increasing demand for radio spectrum, and to facilitate new technologies and services and permit more intensive and efficient spectrum use, the Federal Communications Commission today adopted …

I haven’t decided if this is really cool, another milepost on the road to civilizational perdition, or just worthy of cold cost/benefit analysis weighing the price of a new IBM computer (about $1400) against the insanity inducement of having your computer screen break for a commercial every 20 minutes. In …

Thanks to Jim Vickers of Cleveland Magazine for including us in a fine article called “Hot Blogs,” which examines the concept of blogging and several Cleveland area blogs, including Dawn’s: www.dawnolsen.com Blogger: Dawn Olsen Content: The wife of wp.blogcritics.org founder Eric Olsen, Dawn has been writing her “Up Yours … …

Playboy turns 50 this week with the publication of a special anniversary issue. Though we are a far cry from the “anything goes” sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s – with AIDS the single biggest killjoy – and hedonism in general is out of fashion, I think the world …

Rush is being investigated for illegally funneling money to buy prescription painkillers: In his third day back on the air after rehab, Limbaugh responded with a denial of the allegations first reported Tuesday by ABC News. “I was not laundering money. I was withdrawing money for crying out loud,” Limbaugh …

Kazaa is urging P2P users to pressure content providers lke the RIAA to license to them: There is a revolution underway which is changing the world of entertainment. It will effect how you discover, buy and share songs, movies, games and ideas. Peer-to-peer technology is driving the revolution and it …

Our own Brian Dear was featured in the NY Times yesterday for the smackdown he laid on former Red Herring publisher Tony Perkins: Evisceration is not pretty, especially on the Internet, where the verbal slicing and dicing can be done before a potential audience of millions. Which is pretty much …

Happy birthday Mickey – cultural icons aren’t created every day: Mickey Mouse arrived on the world’s cultural stage 75 years ago Tuesday as a scrawny but buoyant black-and-white product of the Jazz Age. He was a symbol of American pluck in his screen debut, “Steamboat Willie,” on Nov. 18, 1928. …

A very balanced and sensible look in starkly capitalist Forbes at the current state of copyright in the digital era: EVERYONE is going to have to compromise – what a shock: File sharing has gotten a black eye from illegal downloads of copyrighted music and movies, but the technology behind …