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Pink Floyd Royalties Fight Reflection

By David W. Boles on March 12, 2010 10:33 AM | 2 Comments

Pink Floyd won a tremendous victory in court this week against EMI, their record company. The trouble at issue was EMI's "unbundling" of Pink Floyd albums to sell individual album tracks on services like iTunes instead of requiring consumers to purchase the entire album as required by their contract with the band.

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Oscar Box Office Bumping

By David W. Boles on March 5, 2010 8:05 AM | 2 Comments

The 82nd Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday. Here's a fantastic chart that shows how much money is re-earned for a movie after winning the Best Picture Oscar.

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Season 9 Kills American Idol Franchise

By David W. Boles on February 26, 2010 1:22 PM | 2 Comments

Our prescient and delightful and winsome pick Ashley Rodriguez was voted off the American Idol island last night proving, in spades, that the wrong song can kill you because it gives the producers the power to pull the plug on you without leaving anyone, like us, left to feign outrage in her dimming.

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Writing a Million Words a Year

By David W. Boles on February 19, 2010 9:33 AM | 4 Comments

I usually write 3,500 words a day for publication, six days a week. That daily effort averages out to a million words a year. Those writing numbers are numbing and they don't include the daily grind of writing emails or crafting shopping lists or the rare, luxuriant, instance of love letter making.

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Google Goofs Google Docs

By David W. Boles on February 12, 2010 11:34 AM | 2 Comments

There's nothing I hate more than when a company "improves" their product to only make it dumber and less friendly than it was before the improvement. Today's case-in-point are The Google -- who decided to goof with how a Google Docs file is saved and then released from view.

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iPad Kills Kindle, Adobe and iPhone

By David W. Boles on February 5, 2010 8:08 AM | 6 Comments

I am quite convinced the quick ascent of the nascent Apple iPad will be a thundering earthquake that will change, in less than a year, the way most of us do our public business on the web and our private pleasures at home. Technological advances come in flashes and thunderstorms and not drips and drabs. The iPad is such a phenomenon that it will kill three things in rapid order:

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Who Killed Google Wave?

By David W. Boles on January 28, 2010 7:25 AM | 6 Comments

I want to know why Google Wave was found dead in its grave and who put it there? It's been a couple of months since there's been any news on Wave from Google. All the interesting active "Waves" have washed out. What's up with the Wave?

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Pink Floyd Royalties Fight Reflection

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Season 9 Kills American Idol Franchise

Writing a Million Words a Year

Google Goofs Google Docs

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