How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
Apple acquires Sweden-based BIS Records, founded in 1973, and plans to fold the classical music label into Apple Music Classical and Apple's A&R label Platoon
A few days ago BIS Records turned 50 years old and I am immensely proud … Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple to Acquire Major Classical Music Label BIS Records Billboard : Apple Buys Swedish Classic...
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks and more, available for pre-order now to Apple Music subscribers and launching on March 28
here's what it can do Rida Imran / iThinkDifferent : How to auto-download the Apple Music Classical app, ahead of launch on March 28 Shubham Verma / Techlusive : Apple Music Classical to launch on Mar...
A look at Parler, a social network with little moderation, which is backed by Robert and Rebekah Mercer and saw its user base double to 10M in under a week
The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
How Google Reader and RSS beat Twitter in some cases
Scoble and myself had another argument a few days ago about reading RSS feeds. Robert argues that no-one should read any feeds anymore outside of Twitter and Facebook, the rest is useless (right?) wh...
I'm Sorry Robert, But It's Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
I'm a big champion of services like Twitter and the newer Friendfeed (can you believe Friendfeed is less than a year old?). But there's a difference between liking a service and having an addiction.
The Web Disruptors at the Forbes Internet Forum in Cancun
Violet Blue and Robert Scoble are currently in Cancun, Mexico representing the blogosphere at the Forbes Internet Leadership Forum. Earlier today, Violet and Robert, along with Rich Jenkins (MSN Mone...
Scoble and John Edwards in New Hampshire
Robert Scoble was with presidential candidate John Edwards in Portsmouth, New Hampshire today. Robert is shooting lots of video for PodTech, his employer who is paying his expenses. — The Edwards c...
Better Bad News takes on PayPerPost and Gillmor Gang
Funny. — But, I'm totally in Jason Calacanis' corner here where he argues about how to change the system. Do what you can to improve someone's life. That's far preferable to what Dana Gardner argu...
Scoble visiting the Plex
Robert Scoble is visiting the plex tomorrow (okay, today at this point. I lost this post and need to get the Wordpress autosave functionality going). What should I ask Robert? — Aha, looks like he...