I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Downloading and filesharing may negatively impact single sales – but they positively impact album sales (where, incidentally, all the money is). The logic is inescapable. Give it a year or three and the major labels will be sending promo copies to the big filesharing networks. Mark [...]
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A while back I spoke a fair bit on this blog about Low Power FM radio, and the trials and tribulations of the various operators all competing for elbow room in the Auckland marketplace. After a bit of organisation, they all lived more or less happily ever after. Well, last night I was in London [...]
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I’ve never known what the Queen was for. I mean, I guess I never really thought about it. She’s the head of state, sure. I know that, but there she is, this woman who has spent her entire life modelling for portraits, coins and stamps, herding corgis, weathering family debacles and waving in a peculiar [...]
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We were the first in our street to own a VCR. It was 1981 and the All Whites looked like they had a shot at getting into the World Cup. The technology was freakishly expensive. I don’t remember what our 3-ton toploading beast cost, but I remember that the blank tapes ran to $25 each, [...]
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