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Sony’s Grouper buy — research?

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

I could have written a post about Google CEO Eric Schmidt joining the Apple board of directors (GooglePod, here we come) or about Universal Music trying out an ad-supported music service (all crapped up with DRM of course), but instead of climbing the Techmeme mountain I wanted to point ... Continue reading »

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  • anon

    2 years ago

    "it is becoming increasingly possible for performers such as Frank Caliendo to emerge, become popular and potentially make a decent living without ever having touched the traditional media industry in any normal way..."

    um... Frank Caliendo gained fame as a fixture of the traditional media. Years on "MadTV" and as a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio morning show "Bob and Tom". I'm just saying...
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    Thanks, anon. I may have overstated things as far as Frank is concerned -- although I think Cringely's point is that Caliendo has gotten a lot more mileage out of his own DVDs than he did out of Mad TV or a radio show.
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  • Marshall Kirkpatrick

    2 years ago

    lol, i found this post via techmeme and wanted to know what you had to say about the goog/apple thing and the free music downloads! oh well, I appreciated this post at least as much.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    Thanks, Marshall -- I guess that was kind of a cheap trick on my part :-) Another example, perhaps, of how Techmeme's algorithms are less than perfect at reflecting what's really going on.
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