Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Nine Inch Nails Album Generated $1.6 Million in First Week (Updated)
WIRED: ENTERTAINMENT :Trying to find out how much money Radiohead made from the digital release of In Rainbows was like pulling teeth... READ MORE
Gaza: the logic of colonial power
GUARDIAN :I have spent most of the Bush administration's tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications... READ MORE
Music Labels In Talks To Create Hulu-For-Music
WWW.ALLEYINSIDER.COM :Warner Music Group -- now banned from YouTube following failed licensing negotiations -- isn't the only major record label tired of doing business with Google's video-sharing site... READ MORE
Brendel bows out with a shrug and a smile in Vienna
GUARDIAN : At 8.13pm yesterday, one of the greatest pianists of his, or any, age sat down to play in public for the last time. Alfred Brendel spread his tails behind him... READ MORE
Miami Basel Reflections
KIMBERLY BROOKS : In seven short years Miami Basel has become America’s most important art fair with a huge international audience and it turns out that the art is not the only worth staring at— the people watching... READ MORE
New York City in Photo-Realistic 3D Now in Google Earth
GOOGLE EARTH BLOG : Google has updated the 3D buildings in Google Earth for New York City! This is a HUGE update with at least hundreds (if not thousands) of new 3D buildings with photo textures applied... READ MORE
Branding the independents
THEATRE IS TERRITORY :When I started my theatre blog in March of 2007, I had no idea there were other theatre bloggers out there, much less an organism called the theatrosphere... READ MORE
Three Major Record Labels Join the 'Choruss'
EPICENTER :U.S. universities are getting a glimpse at a plan that would build a small music-royalty fee into the tuition payments they receive from students. If successful, the model — proposed by digital music strategist Jim Griffin on behalf of Warner Music Group — could be expanded to make ISPs the collector of such micropayments... READ MORE
Baltimore Opera Co. to file for bankruptcy, cancels remainder of season
WWW.BALTIMORESUN.COM : After 58 years and more than 200 productions, the Baltimore Opera Company will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-law protection Tuesday amid dwindling ticket sales and contributions... READ MORE
How good ideas happen
ARTS JOURNAL :I'm sure we've all read about this -- the YouTube initiative, which big-time orchestras have joined, to allow musicians anywhere to audition for orchestra projects online... READ MORE