It’s no understatement that digital and social technologies have dramatically and permanently altered the music landscape. A decade ago, few in the industry foresaw the enormous shift that began with the introduction of simple file-sharing technology. Over the past ten years, MySpace, iPods, a slew of social networks, music blogs, and digital music retailers have [...]

Recently, while on a trip, I purchased a really cool pair of shoes.
Tragically, however, after but a day of breaking in my new beauties, one of them suffered irreparable damage. Given the business in which I work, my immediate reaction was to proceed with a little stalking to find a customer service solution to my [...]

So when is for-realsies not for-realsies? Well, according to new online storytellers, it’s when it’s announced that it’s not. But for readers and viewers? Not so much.
At last week’s CaseCamp, we were introduced to Story2Oh!, whose creator introduced a series of characters that lived on facebook and twitter, had their own blogs, and added rather [...]

So you’ve seen the clips for the latest Judd Apatow movie. Nick from Freaks and Geeks and Veronica Mars were an item. She breaks it off with him to get together with some overtly hairy person from some horrid-looking band. He goes on a vacation with Jackie from That 70s Show to try to be [...]