That TicketMaster has a monopoly on the sale of event tickets in North America is not in dispute.  Now that they have achieved that monopoly, however, how should they behave?  Case in point, my own attempts to buy tickets for Leonard Cohen’s Ottawa show on May 25 / 26.  After advertising all la...

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Lazy weekend links?? The Guardian music blog on the dilemma of Animal Collective. Seriously, their music page is better than most music-dedicated websites. The end of hip-hop magazines? I (still) blame the Benzino/Source scandal from way back. Obama might not be so thrilled at the proposed Ticketmas...

Two seemingly unrelated items: Today Hitwise reported on how Google Maps is catching up on Mapquest, which once was the king of online mapping.   Perhaps more important than just the numbers is the source of traffic:  61% of Google Maps traffic comes from links placed in organic Google Sea...

Over at Ars , Ryan Paul has an appropriately sharp-tongued response to the Mozilla Foundation’s troubling move to become a cheerleader for the European Commission’s ongoing antitrust efforts against Microsoft. Apparently Mozilla will assist the EC’s investigation “by offering...

  Bill Gates wants rich people to feel the pain, so he unleashed mosquitoes on them. Really. "The Impaler," a self-described "Vampyre" who ran for Governor of Minnesota in '06 as the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party (wha?) candidate, has been arrested for harassing his...

  You'll never guess in a million years what tattoo-covered topless Amy Winehouse is looking at-- and don't say that woman's gigantic bosom... Amy Winehouse, who flies back to her burglarized home in England today to try to salvage her marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil, spent her last...

Your weirdness is getting old, Tom Cruise. Yes, it is. But, anything for a last second box office push, eh, nancy boy? I know that my pal Stan Indursky raked this asshole over the coals a few weeks ago, and considering that Stan is an asshole himself, well, that is a big deal. But, now I must call t...

The NYT reports that Google has recently disclosed in an SEC filing that it had 1 million advertisers as of 2007.  Some analysts suggest that Google’s growing scale will lead to higher ad prices: Ben Schachter, an analyst with UBS, said he expects the current number is likely to be between 1....

Everyone else is writing about Apple's iTunes music store going DRM-free. Which is, I admit, an interesting move. It's also interesting that they're moving to a 3-tier pricing scheme, after about six years of the Cartel nagging them to break the 99-cents-for-anything barrier. But like I said, everyo...