Posts in Industry

“We can’t refuse Unilever the right to make an Axe campaign without giving someone the right to refuse Unilever the right to make the Dove campaign. If we can say “no” to a sexist campaign, someone can say “no” to a feminist one.” The discussion above is excellent (as it always is on the “Intersection […]

“Building a world class Yahoo to be the best company it possibly can be using the management skills that Jerry and company have is a far different challenge than optimizing the stock price. Particularly when Google is your stock comp.”

By no stretch of the imagination do I claim credit for having made something that lots of folks consider great (other than my kids). But we’re not talking about kids and as my wife will point out, I had only a modest role in that anyway. I’d like to talk about creating things that people […]

Awhile ago I wrote about the music service I would love (but doesn’t exist). It still doesn’t but I was reading about lala.com and realized it might just do the trick. Lala claims to: let you upload your whole catalog of mp3s let you listen to your music anywhere there’s a web browser sync the […]

This is not new information certainly. The music industry (specifically the labels) must be having a fun time lately. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails recently posted the following: TechCrunch wrote this about Madonna’s latest deal: “According to reports, Madonna has signed a $120million deal with L.A. based concert promotion firm Live Nation to distribute […]