digital media

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at President Obama’s Monday press conference. Apparently, this was a pretty controversial move by the president. The Heritage Foundation sneered that “left-wing blogger Sam Stein” [...]

Last September, I was standing in James Lileks’ lawn at his 50th birthday party, a classy event that happened to overlap with the Republican National Convention, when I spotted Pajamas Media co-founder Roger L. Simon. More to the point, I spotted his posse. Simon was being trailed by at least five cameramen in matching “PajamasTV” [...]

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?
This is why.

Hey, what’s up with Apple? First CEO Steve Jobs gives a non-update update on his health – a hormone imbalance? – and then the company announces today it’s going to lower the price of downloading iTunes and lift some of its restrictions on copying the songs, Bloomberg reports.
This is all happening at Macworld in San [...]

As 2009 begins, the music business finds itself starting the year in a difficult position, once again. Music sales declined for the seventh time in eight years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sales of compact discs fell by 20 percent. Even album sales, which traditionally do well in the last three months of the year, [...]