Daily Archive for February 27th, 2007

Ellen did a good job

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Dave
on February 27, 2007
in media and performing
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So talking about Big Media, I found myself watching large portions of the Oscars show on TV on Sunday, by accident. It was on in the kitchen while I was surfing, hacking, and blogging. Wow, what a long program! Hollywood people really, REALLY like themselves, don’t they?

The reaction of Tom Shales of the WaPo was to put down the whole event as a “bEllen at the Oscarsore and a horror” (a proper response for the TV maven of a major East-Coast paper, I guess). Tom didn’t particularly like Ellen DeGeneres as the host. The Boston Globe was even more curmudgeonly, suggesting that Ellen put everybody to sleep. I don’t know what Matthew Gilbert at the Globe is thinking. It wasn’t Ellen who put us to sleep. It was the whole pompous affair. Continue reading ‘Ellen did a good job’

Bum rushing: what’s in it for me?

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Dave
on February 27, 2007
in media, music and podcasting
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I’ve been thinking more about this “Bum Rush the Charts” thing. Just trying to figure out why I should spend my 99¢ on a band whose music doesn’t do much for me.

Who stands to benefit? Well, Podshow, certainly, to the extent there’s any publicity wash from this campaign. Black Lab, no doubt: lots of people who really don’t know or like them buying their track. But “amateur media”? Come on, give me a break!

Black Lab is a band whose music I don’t really love; it’s just not my style. Even Podshow’s number one satellite repairman P.W. Fenton said the same thing on his most recent Digital Flotsam podcast. I’d never listen to them on my own.

So my participating in this campaign is like putting 99¢ into some Salvation Army kettle somewhere, Continue reading ‘Bum rushing: what’s in it for me?’