The North Woods Inn in sunny La Mirada, California, advertises that it serves “Sandwiches” and “Dinners” on its sign, and it’s got fake snow on its roof.
“ …one of the earliest and most endurable currencies was the pelt of the beaver itself
Hat-Tip for Hollande - The New York Sun
G-d bless you, @editorofthesun
Nostalgia must be good for business, if the business that you’re in is selling downloads of music produced by musicians, those living and those recently departed.
On Saturday afternoon, about 24 hours after news of the passing of Adam Yauch or MCA of the Beastie Boys had worked its way through the news cycle, their first full album, ‘License to Ill’ had knocked all but Carrie Underwood from the iTunes Top Albums chart. ‘Paul’s Boutique,’ my favorite B-Boys record, was also in the top 10, and the anthology ‘The Sounds of Science,’ priced at $19.99, was in the top 20.
Curiously, individual singles were not high on the chart for Top Songs. ‘Brass Monkey’ is at number 52 right now, about the highest I’ve seen one of the Beastie Boys songs go since I started paying attention on Friday night.
When Whitney Houston passed, her singles were all over the iTunes Top Songs chart. I suppose there’s different behavior at play here among different consumer segments? Your average Beastie Boys fan, perhaps, remembers rocking out to whole Beastie Boys albums in their friends’ basements in high school, and has lost all those tracks they ripped off Napster in the early aughts after a few failed hard drives. Time to click the buy button and grab the whole thing.
I have to wonder which consumer behavior Apple prefers. They say no one buys albums anymore, so perhaps it’s easier to get the masterful ‘Paul’s Boutique’ onto that chart if only a few hundred people download it. I suspect there were many more $.99 and slightly up downloads going on as a matter of volume when Ms. Houston left us.
Regardless: with the rock n’ roll and hip hop and pop heroes of the yesteryears of us nearly-middled-aged peoples yet digitally-minded people getting grayer, and leaving this world for a variety of reasons, I think Apple is going to see many more surges in nostalgia-based downloads in the years ahead.
Rupert Murdoch vs. The New York Post
On the same day that Rupert Murdoch tweeted this:
His New York Post published this:
Source: nypost.com via Michael on Pinterest
Social decay, indeed.
“ Over time, I found my eyes drifting to tweets from folks with the lowest Klout scores. They talked about things nobody else was talking about. Sitcoms in Haiti. Quirky museum exhibits. Strange movie-theater lobby cards from the 1970s. The un-Kloutiest’s thoughts, jokes, and bubbles of honest emotion felt rawer, more authentic, and blissfully oblivious to the herd. Like unloved TV shows, these people had low Nielsen ratings—no brand would ever bother to advertise on their channels. And yet, these were the people I paid the most attention to. They were unique and genuine. That may not matter to marketers, and it may not win them much Klout. But it makes them a lot more interesting.
This. What Your Klout Score Really Means | Epicenter | Wired.com
I guess this is what The Daily Beast is spending Barry Diller’s money on?
Every day, I check my mail, in my mailbox. Where I find a variety of magazines, which I bring back to my apartment. Finding a Newsweek in a plastic sleeve in front of my door does not make me any more likely to renew my soon-to-lapse subscription.
