The Death of Satellite radio History is filled with great ideas that have been made obsolete by technology. Being an eternal music lover, I remember having more cassette tapes than i could keep track of. For most people in third world countries who couldn’t afford to buy LPs, blank tapes were a cheap...

As i argued in the Future of Radio post; computerized radio is the way of the future, despite the rants of music biz “guru” Bob Lefsetz, who claims there is still a place for human programmed radio to rule in the hearts of millions of young listeners. Well, Bob is back at it again, claiming that...

In this recent post Bob Lefsetz argues that music ownership is history and that streaming will rule the music world. There are not absolutes in this world. Remember all of those who predicted the demise of the vinyl record? well, Best Buy is going to start selling vinyl records in 2009! Same thing with CDs,...

In this post, Bob Lefsetz states: Everyone knows the real bands are on indies. That’s commercial crap on the majors. Yep, got that one right. Then a few minutes later, on another post, Bob spends 10000 words extolling the virtues of Coldplay’s free downloadeable live album. Like Coldplay needs any...

I found this interesting prediction in this blog article written by Bob Lefsetz: But I will tell you this, if there’s a future for radio, it will not be the Pandora/LastFM model, it will be tracks handpicked by humans, like RadioIO. The funny thing is, that traditional radio (which is basically obsolete)...