Ah, the music business. Like all business, it can get a little hairy, especially where art meets commerce. Letters of Note unearthed this old letter from Warner Brothers Records executive Joe Smith to Danny Rifkin, co-manager of Grateful Dead in 1967. In it, Smith...
Blogging Is Hard Work And Getting Harder
Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. In November he wrote about being "a blogger no longer." Here's an interesting passage in his sign off piece about the difference between writing traditional...
America’s Soft Dollar Is Scary For Eveyone
Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor, is in Davos, Switzerland this week, reporting from the World Economic Forum. I don't pretend to understand economics any more than I understand international politics, but I know enough to know I need to know more. The...
Public Transit Needs Some Public Debate
Public transit has to be better than one's car for it to be an option that I (and most Americans) will consistently choose. Here in Portland, it's not better. I can drive from our cottage to my office in the heart of downtown in 20 minutes, door to door. The same trip...
TV On The Intertubes
PBS is making full episodes of Austin City Limits available online and offering the embed code as well. Which is amazing, like the show itself. Watch the full episode. See more Austin City Limits. Recent episodes feature Spoon, The National, Band of Horses, Monsters...