Changes Is Good

The image below is of unknown authenticity and has been circulating around the net. Its apparently the reciept you get after you’ve have forked over protection money to the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA), via their recently launched shakedown site. It’s at least good to know that as the RIAA forges ahead on it’s [...]

Tasked with rescuing the major labels from it’s very public death spiral, the Recording Industry Ass. of America has struck on a novel idea. Sue Everyone! Not just old ladies and children but everyone in the US. While you might think it’s a joke, its not. As a first step in their plan to sue [...]

Tasked with rescuing the major labels from it’s very public death spiral, the Recording Industry Ass. of America has struck on a novel idea. Sue Everyone! Not just old ladies and children but everyone in the US. While you might think it’s a joke, its not. As a first step in their plan to sue [...]

How do you express your contempt for an organization that has pursued suing its customers as its business strategy? Well if your an online novelty shop with a sense of humor you express your contempt by offering rolls of toilet paper with the initials of the Recording Industry Ass of America on it. For $6 [...]

How do you express your contempt for an organization that has pursued suing its customers as its business strategy? Well if your an online novelty shop with a sense of humor you express your contempt by offering rolls of toilet paper with the initials of the Recording Industry Ass of America on it. For $6 [...]

I’ve got some good news and bad news for everyone worried about the .
Good news: People are ditching older P2P applications like Gnuttella, Limewire and eDonkey in droves.
Bad News: People are moving from these older applications to BitTorrent in bigger droves.
Since my rant on [...]

Generally speaking, academics are a not the most exciting bunch of writters known to man. Sure they know a lot more then most people but they are so bad at expressing it that it takes about 20 years for anyone to figure out what they’re saying. So I was both shocked an amazed when, nestled [...]

This past weekend I was traveling for a conference and was feeling rather impish. Perhaps inspired by the fear mongering rhetoric of the junior president, I decided to test out some security defeating technology I got a number of years back. I wanted to pit this rather old school technology against the [...]

The ongoing saga of the music industries attempts at self-immolation, highlight what happens when luddite industries go digital. Everyone involved on the traditional side of the music industry seems to have become resistant to all forms of criticism, commentary and common sense. As the music industry continues its death march into irrelevance, it [...]

Despite all the press attention, academic philosophizing and consultant ramblings, Innovation is a bitch. Its a capricious, messy, disruptive practice whose outcome is unclear in the best circumstances. Sure, its standard fare in mission statements and press releases but smart managers know there are plenty of good reasons to delay or even destroy some eager [...]