"I need more marketing and promotion on the Internet like I need a root canal without anesthetic," Capitol Records' Ted Mico told an audience at the "Ad-Supported Music, a New Hope for the Industry?" panel today at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. Fledging music startups seeking licenses from major labels frequently try to offer "marketing and promotion" in exchange for concessions on deal points. But as Beggars' Group's Simon Wheeler said, "Promotion is great, but only when it's built on a sound commercial base." The song remains the same: Show them the money.
Filed under: Internet, Office, Web services, Google, web 2.0Google has rolled out two new features for Google Docs, the company's online word processing application. The first is a new improved menu t... 查看全文
I’ve written extensively about the differences between top, right, and left aligned labels on Web forms. While these considerations account for the majority of form layout options, they don’t cover al... 查看全文
Post from Leadership Turn I love the comics. I’ve followed a lot of good ones over the years, but my hands down all-time favorite is Calvin and Hobbs written by Bill Watterson. Watterson is an interes... 查看全文
Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and Walm... 查看全文
Green Prefab Architect Michelle Kaufmann has released a white paper calling for "Nutrition Labels" for houses. The white paper highlights the need for a universal sustainability labeling standard that... 查看全文
Sometimes when you get too big, you forget about the little people. MySpace has been known to portray themselves as friends to independent music labels. In fact, they often point out that they're resp... 查看全文
Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: danperry.com CC license It’s a sad Saturday night as I write this. I don’t watch the news so I wasn’t aware that Paul Newman died Friday. I grew up watching ... 查看全文
I've recently taken an interest in creating DVD movie labels. Here's some I've done so far: http://75.11.0.157/images/dvd_labels/[^] They're not really all that fancy, but I'm getting better at it (ne... 查看全文
Over at the delightful "Spook Shows" Halloween site, Richard Miller posted a zip file of vintage poison labels. Miller writes, "One year I put them on the cocktail glasses at my Halloween party." Vint... 查看全文