Sony Music is expanding it’s catalog label, Legacy, according to Variety: According to BuzzAngle’s 2017 year-end report, a whopping 51% of songs consumed are from “deep catalog” (music three or more years old), with an additional 12.5% coming from “catalog” (18 months to three years old). Which means that for all the discovery opportunities that a virtually… Read More Old Music is New Again
This is less relevant than Last Jedi, but I had the opportunity of rewatching it recently so why not. It’s still the only SW film I never bothered to see in the theater (I was a baby when the first one came out, I think I saw Empire in the theaters, as It was in… Read More A Series of Thoughts about Rogue One
I will miss Barnes & Noble when they’re gone. I have no news of their imminent demise, mind. Just an intuition which recent reports have intensified. Ah well. This is why one builds a library.
Looking over my bookshelf yesterday, I noticed that some of my books had prices that were all over the map. For example, The Devil Left Him was $3.99 for Kindle, $6.99 for Paperback. Last Tomorrow was 5.99 for paperback. The Right of Revolution was $2.99 for Kindle. I think at the time, I was testing to see what priced… Read More KDP-Amazon Price Reduction
Originally posted on irevuo: Whether some people like it or not, Facebook is the world’s largest social network, which in turn means that it’s the most used app, the thing that people use more often in order to get in touch with friends and family, to discuss ideas, and to find new means of entertainment.… via… Read More How important IS Facebook to an author’s career? — Cristian Mihai
His new film about animated dogs on a giant trash island near Japan is cultural appropriation, you see. twitter.com/i/moments/976653304972288000 This jibes entirely with my earlier prediction: “Dogs” will get nominated for this, and then lose to something Italian that gets a limited release in New York for a week. Because fuck Wes Anderson, that’s why.
Jack White Concert for ‘Boarding House Reach’ Album Release to Be Live-Streamed on Twitter http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/jack-white-twitter-album-release-live-stream-1202732449/ — Read on variety.com/2018/digital/news/jack-white-twitter-album-release-live-stream-1202732449/ This is interesting because: A) I’d been wondering when Jack’s next album would drop B) Live-streaming a concert gets around bootleggers and uses paid customers to create an event for non-paying customers.
I spent some time farting around with HTML yesterday to get my Published Books Page to look like something other than a bullet-list with hyperlinks. My knowledge of HTML is completely basic – I know what tags are and how to close them – but it looks pretty good. I did even less to my… Read More Minor Page Updates
Our first experience of belonging (or not, for some) is of a family. And even in dysfunctional families, the parental authority, if it’s worth anything enforces the “he/she is weird, but he/she is ours.” In school, also, for the truly odd kid, the teacher and the supervising assistant, or whatever, are the ones who intervene… Read More Why Oddballs Like Authoritarianism – And Why They Shouldn’t
From Dictionary.com: Dornick – a small stone that is easy to throw away. Polemology – the study of human conflict and war. Busticate – to break into pieces. Krummholz – a forest of trees on the timber line of a mountain. Demonym – a term for a people who live a particular place. Peculate –… Read More A Collection of Fun Words
Content Blues 