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Because I haven’t posted anything since the last week of August, many of you may be wondering – where have you been? Several people have also asked if I had stopped blogging altogether. In attempting to answer these questions, I’ve had to … Continue reading →

In our super-hyped, 24/7, “reality”-crazed world, most everything is scaled-up to make it appealing, interesting, etc. This is true of media, products, and processes. How else can something compete for our attention in the cacophony that so characterizes today’s culture … Continue reading →

Whew! As my daughter Rachel would say, “Dude, that was way harder to do than I thought”. Thanks to my handy DVR and one of our local public television stations (KQED), I was able to watch as much of this year’s … Continue reading →

Around 1500 AD, the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (commonly referred to as ”Erasmus”) published a compilation of ancient Greek and Latin adages (proverbs) called the Adagia. Included in this compilation was the proverb ”a rolling stone gathers no moss”. The commonly understood meaning is … Continue reading →

  Steve Jobs of Apple I was reading about the music business recently and remembered something I’d read in the December issue of Wired Magazine. It was an article about Doug Morris, the CEO of Universal Music Group (UMG), arguably the largest music distributor in the … Continue reading →

   President John F. Kennedy The results of the Ohio and Texas primaries are trickling in as I write this. Vermont has already gone to Obama and McCain appears to have secured sufficient delegates to win the GOP nomination. Of the three … Continue reading →