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| Wednesday, October 8, 2003 |
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News close to home 
| | One of our best friends in Santa Barbara, Susan Camusi, died on Monday, following cosmetic surgery. The story was the only one, other than Arnold's, above the fold on the front page of our local paper this morning. If you're a subscriber, you can read the story, plus a related one here and here (for the next seven days, after which even subscribers have to pay). |
| | Needless to say, this has been a heavy trip for all her friends and family. Susan was just fifty. We celebrated her birthday at a great party this past June. Great parties were a staple for Susan. The last was on Labor Day weekend. |
A breed apart
| | The Head Lemur has a new blog: Raving Lunacy. Almost straight out of the gate, he proposes a useful noun: Journalink, which he defines as an individual who writes online, providing hyperlinks to the material that formed the basis of the writing. He adds, |
| | One of the most exciting things about the web is not only the immediacy of publishing, the ability for almost any one with the desire, a few bucks, an internet connection to be able and willing to play, but the significant ability of anyone reading online to fact check any raving lunacy that shows up in your browser. The hyperlink is what draws the line between those that want to inform you and regurgistists, which are those folks who just spew crap out that is shoveled into one orifice or another. |
Radio Route-aound
| | I've said all along that Napster and its ilk have always been nothing more than the market's way of routing around the failure of radio to connect artists and audiences. |
| | Now that the corpse of Napster's brand has been re-animated as a for-pay music distro service, it's time to point to worthy efforts that respect the open marketplace by facilitating rather than distancing and controlling the connections between supply and demand. |
| | Which is what we have with Magnatune (slogan: we are not evil), a new record label I was just pointed to by Andrew Grumet. |
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