PANDORA MAY SHUT DOWN

If you haven’t seen the recent news on Pandora, the rise in performance royalties for internet radio (coupled with their fast-growing listener base, especially on the iPhone) is swallowing up all their revenue and they may have to shut down. Read about it here.

I really hope they can avert a shutdown by finally inserting audio ads between songs. There’s been discussion of PBS-style Read more »

2008 OLYMPICS — OPENING CEREMONY MUSIC

Most of the opening event ceremony was in the style of “Western Art Music” (i.e. “classical” ish ) — including the Chinese National Anthem itself. Instead of choosing to celebrate traditional music, the Chinese largely deferred to the West. Read more »