Jim Hancock discusses the future of the music industry in light of an interview between Wired magazine and Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris.
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Webware.com, a recently launched website by CNET, focuses on the fundamental shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet.
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There's Always a Change in the Wind
The Tom Peters! Company posed four questions to a gathering of senior executives. They all had the same answer: disruption.
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The Music Industry Takes Aim At Its Own Foot
Rolling Stone and the Associated Press tell us something we know and something we don’t about the uneasy relationship between the music industry and it’s volatile customers.
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To a Theater, Television AND DVD Player Near You
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh told Wired Magazine "Simultaneous release is already here. We’re just trying to gain control over it." By "gaining control" he and partners Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner mean blowing the doors off the movie ind
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An interesting note from the Wall Street Journal’s Walter Mossberg on who’s serving whom in the computer market.
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After 135 Years, Ringling Bros. Loses the Rings
"No show survives 135 years without making dramatic changes," Ringling Brothers’ chief executive Kenneth Feld told the New York Times, acknowledging what we all know down deep.
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Speculating on Real Estate in New Orleans
If housing and commercial real estate are any indicators, New Orleans will be back — and profoundly changed.
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What internet space logged more page views in August (9.4 billion) than Google? That would be MySpace.com — the upstart web company that is part Friendster, part Blogger, part MP3.com, part craigslist.
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It’s easier to look at outside forces that challenge our business models because who in her right mind wants to believe she’s dug her own grave?
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