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Move to China, Become a Rapper & Make Millions! By michael | August 20th, 2005

I was reading an article in Business 2.0 about Americans who are making it big in China when I noticed a picture of a brotha with two Chinese girls next to him. (reminds me of that line from Digital Undergrounds ‘Sex Packets’, but I digress…) So of course I skipped right to that [...]

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Morgan Stanley Report on Monetizing Blogs By michael | October 29th, 2004

A report by some Morgan Stanley analysts that all bloggers should read, IMHO.

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Yahoo Buys Stata Labs… Going After GMail? By michael | October 21st, 2004

The news of Yahoo buying Stata Labs, the makers of Bloomba, is very interesting indeed. It certainly seems like they’re buying their technology expertise in an attempt to “get with” Google’s GMail and their desktop toolbar. Here’s the news:

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Speaking of Documentaries… By michael | July 26th, 2004

A friend of mine just recommended ‘The Corporation‘.to me. After seeing the trailer its definitely on my list. Here’s what it’s about:

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the [...]

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‘Fahrenheit’ Sets Record for Documentaries By michael | July 26th, 2004

‘Fahrenheit 9/11‘ just broke the $100 million mark, setting a new record for a documentary. I just heard a report on CNN’s ‘The Biz’ which said that Michael Moore pointed out that ‘Fahrenheit’ has now made more than any Disney release this year. I wonder how Michael Eisner is feeling about refusing to distribute [...]

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FrontLine: The Way the Music Died By michael | May 26th, 2004

Set your TiVos for FrontLine’s special report on the music industry, ‘The Way the Music Died’. Here’s what the show is about:

The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would [...]

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Prince to be on CNBC Monday, April 19 By michael | April 17th, 2004

Prince will be on ‘Special Report with Maria Bartiromo’ Monday at 7 PM discussing the music industry

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Are Your Friends Causing You to Stagnate? By michael | September 3rd, 2003

The Fast Company weblog has a couple of good posts about innovation and entrepreneurship. They are ‘Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends‘ and ‘Want To Innovate? Dump Your Friends‘. The titles sound a bit more harsh than the actual articles are though. They simply raise the point that exposing yourself to [...]

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