Gateway hopes to return to profitability with the help of home electronics: The Poway, Calif., company has crafted the new device to look and act like a regular DVD player, but it will also be able to access and play multimedia files stored on a PC. Gateway plans to begin …

I own about ten different Beach Boys collections, but I am always willing to look at a new one. Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys is an outstanding single-CD compilation with 30 songs covering the Boys’ entire career, the best single-CD set yet from the greatest …

PW Daily has a fun little tidbit on the Potter5 phenomenon: And a PW book reviewer in the Washington, D.C. area noted that a friend of hers got a surprise when she took the book to a doctor’s appointment earlier this week. “My friend told me yesterday that she took …

The famous Glastonbury Festival is online for your dining and dancing pleasure, including webcasts of a number of acts: The virtual festival gates are now OPEN! If you haven’t managed to snag a ticket, there’s no need to fret (and there’s certainly no need to jump the fence – that …

We just mentioned that many users are looking to methods other than the big systems like Kazaa and Grokster for P2P. Grokster president Wayne Rosso spoke yesterday at a copyright conference: The Recording Industry Association of America’s plan to sue individuals for distributing “substantial amounts” of music files on peer-to-peer …

Between spyware, pop-up ads, mislabeledfiles, spoofed files, and now the threats of doom from the RIAA, people are looking to alternatives to the main file sharing systems: I think there is going to be a natural recession where people will find other, more secure networks where they feel more comfortable, …

No, not blogoversary, REAL anniversary. Dawn and I have been married five years today. She is hot and cool at the same time and crazy and bizarre and freaky and I am the luckiest guy in the world. She’s a great mother and stepmother too – ask all 3.5 of …

This is pretty cool, but my God does Blogspot suck worse than ever. I find it hard to believe I used that random, unreliable, unattended, disfigured jumble of insect shit for six months. Hey Ev, you are a worthless, soulless prick and now that you have the cash I would …

The RIAA and friends threaten one and all with an ad in the NY Times: NEXT TIME YOU OR YOUR KIDS ‘SHARE’ MUSIC ON THE INTERNET, YOU MAY ALSO WISH TO DOWNLOAD A LIST OF ATTORNEYS. By now, most people know that distributing copyrighted music over the Internet without permission …

Adam Mansbach with a treatise on the intellectual state of hip-hop: In ever-evolving forms, hip-hop rules planet Earth, or at least the global entertainment economy from Japan to Cuba. But is there something deeper going on than the flash of 50 Cent’s platinum chains and Eminem’s silver tongue? Where is …