Archive – Page 39 – Andrew Orlowski

The hitman, the Pirate Bay and the Freetard professor

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Andrew Orlowski

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10 December 2008

REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?! FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression! REG: It’s symbolic of his struggle against reality – Monty Python’s Life of Brian Everyone’s a prankster these days – it’s all in the name of art. On Monday…

Commissions

Profiting from climate change: Ben Pile

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Andrew Orlowski

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3 December 2008

Imagine an unpopular, impotent, and fragile UK Government, trying to make political capital out of a looming crisis. To avoid being embarrassed by criticism of its shallow policies, it appoints an independent panel of experts, to which it defers controversial decisions. Now imagine that the panel proposes measures from which its members and their associates…

Stories

The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell

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Andrew Orlowski

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30 November 2008

Have you ever had the nagging sense that there’s something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell – the author of Tipping Point? But you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? We’re here to help, dear reader. Gladwell gave two vanity “performances” in the West End – prompting fevered adulation from…

Interviews, Stories

“We’re going to be last to market”: Chris Castle’s battle stories

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Andrew Orlowski

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27 November 2008

bullient lawyer Chris Castle has a unique perspective on the Music Wars. A former Sony and A&M executive who “switched sides” to Silicon Valley, then found himself defending the original Napster, which he called one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. His clients range from technology companies to major recording artists. So to…

Stories

Anderson downgrades Long Tail to Chocolate Teapot status

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Andrew Orlowski

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21 November 2008

“The end came quickly,” as authors of morbid weepies like to say. On Monday WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson effectively admitted game over for his “Long Tail”, the idea he’s been dragging so lucratively around the conference circuit for the past four years. In as many words, he downgraded it from “the future of business”…

Stories

How to destroy the music business

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Andrew Orlowski

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20 November 2008

Put yourself in these hypothetical shoes for a moment. My goal is to make as much money as possible by doing as little work as possible. I have no creative talent except for generating and recycling marketing buzzwords. I have no technical knowledge or ability – but I can get my head around a Twitter…