There's an interesting article on Salon right now about some of the problems with online reviews:http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2007/06/13/user_reviews/index.htmlReading the article confirmed my belief that online reviews are a nut that's yet to be cracked. While the internet continues to promise a way for online reviews to actually help us make choices (musical or otherwise), it's an unfuf...
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Online Music Reviews: a nut yet to be cracked?
Predicting our musical future - the rebirth of the single?
From last month's New York Times article by Jeff Leeds:"Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CD’s for the first time. So far this year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189 million units, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music are purchasing singles over albums by a margin of 1.
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One more shot of espresso
Well, that was a lengthy and impassioned discussion (look at the previous post on the Starbucks Aesthetic if you are lost).Just a few more tidbits before we leave the discussion. First, a very interesting article by Susan Dominus in the New York Times about the Starbucks Aesthetic:http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30712F635540C718EDDA90994DE404482For those of you who have...
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