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...video killed the radio star,” as British band The Buggles famously sang in 1979, then online playlists might put the nail in the coffin for FM disk jockeys. “Many music fans are not content to simply listen passively to what radio DJs play,” according to Derek A. Slater ’05-’06, co-author of a report that will be released today by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Gartner Group, a research firm. Slater wrote...
...Rodgers may be many things--tough taskmaster, Green Bay Packers fan--but reticent he is not. And if anything gets the pugnacious founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor talking, it's the notion that corporations ought to exist for more than the pursuit of profit. In the simplest terms, that idea--called corporate social responsibility, or CSR--invites companies to consider their impact on people and the planet on a par with their traditional quest for profit. Rodgers considers that bunk. Not that he opposes conscientious corporate conduct or occasional acts of charity. He's quick to point out that...
...everyone is a fan. California sued American Funds, claiming it failed to disclose rewards the company paid brokers for pushing its funds. The suit was dismissed last month. And some are worried that American Funds' biggest funds are at the breaking point that Magellan reached more than a decade...
...same parties and shows for years.” Perhaps emblematic of the new generation of underground rock, Moloney admits that “the first time I got a grip on their sound was last night at the show,” although he was a Sebadoh fan as a college radio DJ.The band’s set was paradoxically both reminiscent of their recordings and like nothing they’ve ever played. There were no songs, just 40 minutes of improv: a Pennsylvania Dutch kraut jam session. Moloney especially admires German rockers Can, as their...
...tremendously clever. Clever enough, according to his website, to give his new group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured, Shinoda hastens to assure his implausibly numerous fans that he is still “an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park,” whose work is “searing.” You can sleep easy knowing that Shinoda will continue to bring his “appetite for striking new ground?...