Apple's Twitter

I’ve been waiting a year for someone to write about this, but my laziness has not yet paid off, so here are a few things that we all know about everybody’s...

Apple and Appropriate Secrecy

About a year and a half ago, I was disappointed with one of the key choices Apple had made, given that they’re often described as one of the most admired...

Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale

Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some...

DRM and Friends

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

What's the Word?

I found Frank Hilario’s rant entitled Microsoft’s Mr Bill Gates And The Boy Who Cried Worp to be largely incoherent, but from what I could deduce, he thinks my...

The Problem Is, The Zune Is Brown

Microsoft has just launched the Zune , which will be one of the most popular digital music players ever made, and could have been considered a wild success as...

I'm a Cranky Geek!

Whoops, I should have mentioned this in time for you to see it live, but I was on Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak today. It’s a fun little web video show (vlog?...

S.S.T. on iTMS

Prince’s S.S.T. , his (surprisingly good) Hurricane Katrina relief track is now up on the iTunes Music Store . Nice that you don’t have to be in his little...

Music, Music Everywhere

With the news that Toyota is launching a record label , I guess we can officially say that the music industry has gone completely random. Though most people...

Emulating an iPod

I might be revealing my ignorance here, but just as disk-based iPod were, also, generic USB or FireWire storage devices, I understand the new iPod shuffle is...

iTMS via PayPal

The iTunes Music Store now takes PayPal . Now I can start a DropCash campaign to have people buy me music!

asian mack filters itunes

As is to be expected now that you can get paid a nickel for sending people to the iTunes store, there’s a blog that sifts through iTMS and links to highlights....