Visionary John Perry Barlow interviewed in InfoWorld by Steve Gillmor: JOHN PERRY BARLOW is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, co-founder of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), and an outspoken advocate for fair use of content. In an interview with InfoWorld Test Center Director Steve …

This approach seems exactly right – they are going after the real pirates: Producers and retailers of counterfeited goods will face jail sentences and high fines across the European Union, under plans to be unveiled this week by the European Commission. The proposed rules are part of a crackdown on …

Glenn Reynolds, among other things, is a voting member of NARAS by dint of his record production. On his new GlennReynolds.com blog he discusses the Grammys: Even more than in previous years, I was forced to realize just how far my musical tastes diverge from the Academy’s. Most of the …

In all humility, once again I say to you, you heard it here first. Last week on the 19th I talked about how much I like the cable TV Music Choice music service with its 45+ channels – right now I am digging on the “Pulse” downbeat and ambient music …

From Philadelphia: Avi, author of “Crispin: The Cross of Lead,” and Eric Rohmann, illustrator and author of “My Friend Rabbit,” are the 2003 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals, the most prestigious awards in children’s literature. ….”Crispin: The Cross of Lead,” published by Hyperion Books for Children, …

If you own a computer (and if you don’t I am impressed that you are reading this) you have probably heard about the computer worm that attacked the Internet over the weekend: A resilient 2-day-old computer worm continued to hobble the Internet Monday, infesting computer networks in Europe, Asia and …

If you aren’t huge, the key to success in any business is to find a niche and run with it. Milt Okun’s Cherry Lane Music publishing company has done just that: The big record companies may be losing customers. But 79-year-old former band conductor Milt Okun and his tiny music …

Hardly a business day goes by it seems without some kind of blockbuster announcement involving the music industry. Major retailers have been having as hard, or harder, a time as the labels: Wherehouse just filed for bankruptcy – again, Tower is reeling, the holiday season was a disaster with no …

The Superbowl was strangely quiet this year – maybe hype fatigue has set in, and with only one week between the Conference Finals and the Big Game, there wasn’t time for the momentum to take on a life of its own. This gives me hope for media bombast in general, …

John Pareles has a very nice, sometimes touching interview-requiem-career overview of Warren Zevon in the NY Times Magazine. Much of the ground has been covered before, but Pareles has a priceless encounter with Bob Dylan: Dylan was in Los Angeles in October performing at the Wiltern Theater, and word had …