In this case, later. Much later. I’m a big fan of using Rhapsody on my Sonos, so I’ve been frustrated that my band’s second album seemed to get lost on its way to Rhapsody. For some strange reason, when my band Soul Patch released the album earlier this year, we used CD Baby to handle…
So this story hit the news a few days ago, but I’ve been busy eating turkey, so I didn’t get around to posting it until now. Atlantic Records announced that sales of their music from digital downloads are now greater than those from sales of physical CDs. They are the first of the major labels…
I’m very pleased with the people Obama is bringing on board his administration. In David Brooks’ op-ed piece in the NY Times today, he refers to this new administration as the valedictocracy – rule by those who graduated first in their high school classes. Having been valedictorian of my high school graduating class in 1989,…
A couple weeks ago, Foundry Group portfolio company Topspin Media’s CEO Ian Rogers delivered the keynote speech at the Grammy Northwest Music Tech Summit. He just posted his presentation on Topspin’s blog — if you have any interest in the current (and future) state of the music business, it is well worth a read. As…
I just bought myself a brand new MacBook Air, with a 128GB flash drive and the faster graphics. It runs much faster than the first-gen one I have and also runs much cooler, so in general I’m a happy guy. But twice now, I’ve hooked up the ethernet dongle and plugged it into a network…
After spending a moment looking back at the past in my previous post, now it is time to look into the future. Foundry Group invested in a company called Oblong about a year ago, but when we made our investment, we couldn’t say much at the time (though Brad did hint about their Minority Report…
Ahh, a trip down memory lane. About seven years ago, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPod. I’ve included a video of the event here. A couple things stand out to me after watching this video — first is the ongoing and relentless march of Moore’s Law. The original iPod, as amazing as it was when…
I really like the sound of that. Forty-eight hours after the (decisive) election results were called (and North Carolina just put Obama at 364 electoral votes), I am still basking in relief and rekindled pride in my country. Starting with Al Gore’s popular vote victory in 2000 in an election plagued by voting irregularities, when…
Two weeks ago, I attended the second Lobby Conference, and, as expected, it was one of the best of year for me, so kudos to David Hornik for iterating and improving – an already great conference became even better. Same as last year, one of the best ideas from the conference is that all attendees…