The paradigm has shifted so completely that I am now highly annoyed if written material is not available online as opposed to being thrilled and delighted when something IS available online. IS is now the norm – the rest of you are fools. Among the last bastions of important material …

Probing for the weak spot: Dozens of small stores have been given two weeks to clear their racks of pirated CDs, tell where they got them and pay damages to the five largest record labels, an industry group said on Monday. The Recording Industry Association of America said 78 small …

Warner Elektra Atlantic basically shutting down in LA and heading for New York. Per press release: Citing “the evolving recorded music market” and a desire “to best serve its U.S. retail customers, label partners and artists,” WEA CEO Jim Caparro announced a restructuring of Warner Music Group’s U.S. distribution arm. …

Company working on software to segment “video on demand” for users according to the Boston Globe: an Andover company is developing software to enable viewers to skip through movies, programs, and news broadcasts to find the segments they want to watch. Gotuit Media Corp. is announcing today it has landed …

Maybe they have.

This site, Computer Stupidities, reminds me of SNL’s “Nick Burns: Your Company Computer Guy”, having a few laughs at the expense of the digitally challenged: Tech Support: “May I ask what operating system you are running today?” Customer: “A computer.”

Corinna Hasofferett (“hasofferett” means “woman writer” in Hebrew) is a fascinating, thoughtful, even playful Israeli writer of Hebrew literary fiction and nonfiction. Born in Romania, she has lived through more than most of us can even imagine, yet her humanity seems untarnished. Her work is translated on her site into …

Bill Sherman has a loving review of Love and Rockets #6 comic here. It’s such a good review even I am interested, and I haven’t read a comic in about 25 years. Coincidentally (or not), the Comics Journal has an audio interview with L&R author Jaime Hernandez here, described thusly …

One of the reasons there wasn’t open rebellion against the music industry and its price gouging ($15-$20 for a new CD using a process that costs LESS than vinyl to manufacture) until MP3s and P2P came along is that there was always the alternate outlet of used records and CDs …

I didn’t post all weekend because a) I am trying to cut down on my site-management addiction, and, primarily for financial reasons, b) I had my first mobile DJ job in some time on Saturday night – a holiday party on the 21st floor in downtown Cleveland for a bunch …