I have a former boss, whom I will not name, who has a certain attitude toward the digital world that is best exemplified by this photo. Enjoy:

Read the full article here. Yesterday Lady Gaga hit 11 million followers on her Facebook page (congratulations, number 11,000,001, you get a two-minute shopping cart dash round her wardrobe.) Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, as she is known to her Mom and Dad, is not the first artist who uses social media and the Internet to [...]

Read the original article here. Prince’s Nonsense If only they were talking about his music. I haven’t seen an artist this out of touch since Metallica sued Napster. And even though the heavy metal foursome has been doing mea culpas for years, giving away music, innovating online, they’ve never been able to erase the taint [...]

Printed newspapers Getting big advances for musical releases CDs

Here is an excerpt where Prince elaborates on how he’s releasing his music through printed newspapers instead of the internet. Some could argue that printed newspapers are “completely over” and have been for years, but I guess he doesn’t see it that way: [Prince] explains that he decided the album will be released in CD [...]

Back in the ’80s, way before you could watch anything any time you wanted, there was a whole world of “underground” music that you never heard on the radio or on MTV, this was also the time when MTV actually played music. But for 2 hours a week, late at night on Sunday, you could [...]

BitTorrent is controversial. Some love it, some hate it, some go to great lengths to try and stop. Regardless of how you feel about it, there is no question that BitTorrent/P2P filesharing is not going anywhere anytime soon. I often get asked “What is BitTorrent?” and I found this FAQ that does a great job [...]

Girl, I wanna dance with you in a bowling alley. And hey girl, this is my old uncle Luda who likes to hang with teenagers.

By John Jurgensen at Speakeasy/WSJ Blog Last year, a Los Angeleno named Scott Addison Clay was invited into Prince’s inner sanctum –literally. Clay recalls the pop singer leading him through “the catacombs of his insanely gargantuan basement.” The tour led into a cavernous room, where a man sat at a drum set. A woman picked [...]

Massive Attack-Splitting the Atom-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.