Digg getting into the toolbar business: Smart Rihanna going back to Chris Brown: Dumb Adam Corrolla taking his show online: Smart Andrew Baron’s analysis of why TV Studios will die : Smart Money’s diminishing returns : True We need more ass wiping businesses : True Obama’s budget i...

On February 6, 2007 Steve Jobs wrote his “Thoughts On Music” on the Apple website. He explained Apple’s need to ‘license rights to distribute music from others,’ mentioning Universal and the other large record companies. This ubiquitous statement may now be the death nell for alrea...

One of the more interesting stories in the history of music is the one about the Guns & Roses album, ‘Chinese Democracy’. It took almost 20 years to create. In between most of the band members quit. The band signed a deal with Best Buy to be the only distributor of the album. Best Bu...

Back when I was in the record business one of my bosses would always say you can find the future by looking at the edges. Well he didn’t say that exactly but he would always go first to the gay clubs and see what they was listening to now because he claimed, by next year, everyone would be lis...

It’s not the best of times for Kings. From Wall Street titans like Dick Fuld to Main Street titans like Howard Schultz the future looks difficult. Even the kings of the blogging world are beginning to whine. On the same day that Mike Arrington announced a vacation from blogging and blamed othe...

My first wife asked me to marry her. I worked at a radio station and was trying to open a nightclub. I was busy. And the rest of my life wasn’t on my mind. What was on my mind was work. Building stuff. But she told me something that convinced me. “Prince, marry me. I’ll support you...

For months I’ve been wanting to write about what entrepreneurs can learn from terrorists. The whole idea of attacking the weak point in large systems, taking advantage of common technologies and having a completely flat organization. But after Mumbia I don’t think I will. Beyonce’s...

So a couple of days ago I broke up with my girlfriend. Because she’s way more smarter/famous/richer than me, the few who knew about our relationship all wondered how I fucked up. Being a modern man is sooo hard. When we would go out in public strangers would come up to me and whisper asking if...

I’ll be honest. I didn’t have much faith in you guys. 1968 Some of your parents did some pretty fucked up shit to my parents and though I try not to hold it against you personally, it still kinda just sits there sometimes. We still over-dress, or act certain ways around ‘you people...

Remember this cuz it’s important: You don’t really change people’s minds with facts. You change people’s minds by changing the way they view themselves. It’s common knowledge that l’m a pretty liberal guy. Back in 2004 I was completely confused by George W. Bush s...