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  • Spotify’s numbers – an exclusive peek

    A month on, I’m still reading that Spotify’s financials and subscriber numbers are a mystery. Not here, they’re not. Move over Fifty Quid bloke – and make way for 14p man. Statements seen by The Register indicate that’s all the hit music service Spotify makes per user from its advertising-supported business. The difference is the…

  • “A country bumpkin approach to slinging generalizations around”

    WiReD magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson has copped to lifting chunks of material for his second book Free from Wikipedia and other sources without credit. But it could be about to get a lot worse. In addition to the Wikipedia cut’n’pastes, Anderson appears to have lifted passages from several other texts too. And in a quite…

  • Inside Adam Curtis’ funhouse

    After a few promises not to spoil the plot, I stepped through Punchdrunk’s It Felt Like A Kiss while the sets were being built Read more at The Register

  • Carterware – it’s the new vapourware

    “As yet, we’ve seen nothing that fulfils the consumer demand of sharing music, for which most of the public would apparently part with a fair bit of cash. So this is software or a service announced in response to a Government edict.”