Archive for the 'Pundit Spats' Category
Michael Robertson’s Music Locker Smackdown
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in CEO comments, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Lala.com, Pundit Spats, copyright, michael robertson, music lockers.Lala.com, an online CD trading platform, began offering a limited music locker with free music streaming this week and it pissed off uber-CEO and music locker competitor Michael Robertson. The general reaction to Lala.com’s announcement ranged from the mildly bemused to the historically reflective with most blog post and articles mentioning Mp3.com or Napster as [...]
Michael Robertson’s Music Locker Smackdown
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 9th, 2007 in CEO comments, Digital Music, Digital downloading, Lala.com, Pundit Spats, copyright, michael robertson, music lockers.Lala.com, an online CD trading platform, began offering a limited music locker with free music streaming this week and it pissed off uber-CEO and music locker competitor Michael Robertson. The general reaction to Lala.com’s announcement ranged from the mildly bemused to the historically reflective with most blog post and articles mentioning Mp3.com or Napster as [...]
Fallout from Steve Jobs anti-DRM Bomb
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello February 9th, 2007 in Apple, Digital Music, Entertainment, IFPI, Music Musings, Pundit Spats, RIAA and Record Labels, Steve Jobs, anti-drm, business, drm, great companies, iPod/iTunes, michael robertson, mp3, trend, warner music.Earlier this week the Chief Evangelical Officer of Apple Computers Inc., Steve Jobs, channeled the spirit of Ronald Regan (media moguls tear down these digital walls) and wrote an open letter (read my post here) aimed at the music barron’s in their Bling’d-out offices. In it he basically says that DRM sucks, iPods rock and [...]
When Pundits Attack
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello August 9th, 2006 in Conjecture, Long Tail, Pundit Spats.(Image from Blaugh click image for full carton including funny caption)
Somethings in this world just make sense. You dont have to be told how or why, you just intuitively feel the rightness of it. My first encounter with ice cream inside a cone shaped cookie was one such a moment, melted cheddar on tuna [...]
