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Then along came Larry King. King, in USA Today, reinvented the concept of the column, making it the easiest job in the world. Using the classic three-dot format and replacing information with random opinions, he filled columns with sentences like these: "Does anybody know how to bake strawberry longcake?...I hate digital clocks...If George Shearing is playing piano, I'm listening to the piano...Whoever invented the paper clip is a genius...Someday they'll send pizza pies to your house like faxes, and boy will that make money." By looking inside instead of outside, King effectively...
...selections to repeat ad infinitum. Laws designed to ensure that Web radio can't function as a Napsterish file-sharing system forbid you to broadcast chunks of an album or a lot of tracks from one artist within a short period of time. However, just about any other narrower format is fair game. Computer technician and percussionist Amilcar Carvalho, of Brockton, Mass., who runs a Live365 station featuring the music of his native Cape Verde, uploads "over 100 songs a couple times a week" for pleasure. "I am a musician, and I love people to hear the music," he says...
...Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian programmer whom the FBI had locked up for the better part of a month before he was freed on bail Monday, pending arraignment later this month. He wrote a little program that allowed you to take e-books, specifically ones in the Adobe e-reader format, and transport them wherever you liked. And he didn't even do that in this country, he did it in Moscow, where such a thing is perfectly legal. But Adobe purchased a copy of this software through a third-party vendor, and suddenly accused Sklyarov of "trafficking...
...Charles? edge toward popularity in the late ?50s coincided with a shift from the 12-bar format to pop?s favorite descending chord pattern (C, C7, F, F-minor) in the choruses of "Ain?t That Love," "Swanee River Rock" and "That?s Enough" and the release of "This Little Girl of Mine" and his sensaysh cover of Sy Oliver?s "Yes Indeed." We came to expect the revival-show tambourine (rattled by co-producer Jerry Wexler on some sides), the backing girl group (the Cookies, later known as the Raelettes) offer response to his call, the bluesy-jazzy...
...would be worth it to guarantee a complete, error free download every time). But there's the rub: nobody appears to be even thinking of offering what we might call Morpheus Plus. The business models of Napster and MusicNet call for tunes to come in their own limited, secure format rather than what consumers want, which is play-anywhere MP3s. They're about subscriptions rather than micropayments. They give no indication that anyone in a position of power in these companies actually understands what it's like to download digital tunes on a regular basis...