bradbarrish + nytimes   75

Music - The New Pop Music Revolution - Pitching Products - NYTimes.com
As the influence of major labels erodes, licensers are seizing their chance to be talent scouts.
music  marketing  branding  advertising  business  nytimes  publishing  licensing 
february 2009 by bradbarrish
Music Industry Imitates Digital Pirates to Turn a Profit - NYTimes.com
After years of futile efforts to stop digital pirates from copying its music, the music business has started to copy the pirates.
nytimes  piracy  p2p  music  business 
january 2009 by bradbarrish
Music - Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy - Frontman in the Background - NYTimes.com
He speaks knowledgeably about jazz fusion, early blues, underground hip-hop and hardcore punk. He likens the task of songwriting to Robert McKee’s rules for screenwriting. He argues, not altogether unconvincingly, for the influence of John Cage on Fall Out Boy’s music. When talking about how to deliver Mr. Wentz’s lyrics in the most effective fashion, he invokes David Mamet.
nytimes  music  article 
december 2008 by bradbarrish
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto | The New York Times
Photos and narration minutes before, during and after the Bhutto assassination. Chilling.
photography  politics  nytimes  terrorism  journalism 
december 2007 by bradbarrish
Exercise on the Brain - New York Times
Apparently doing sudoku puzzles and playing Brain Age on Nintendo DS isn't going to do much for the brain, but that physical exercise will.
article  exercise  health  nytimes  research  science 
november 2007 by bradbarrish
Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed - New York Times
Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material
nytimes  art  diy  design 
september 2007 by bradbarrish
Pancreatic Cancer - Deadly Inheritance, Desperate Trade-Off - New York Times
Ninety-five percent die in less than five years. Family history is a strong risk factor, but most patients have no affected relatives.
cancer  pancreatic  nytimes 
august 2007 by bradbarrish
The Weird Psychology of Security - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
It’s foolish to ask us to be rational about risks. And sometimes “security theater” – like the stuff we see at the airport – can actually have a purpose when there’s a need to reassure people that they really are safe.
psychology  security  terrorism  nytimes 
august 2007 by bradbarrish
What’s My House Worth? And Now? - New York Times
Either my house lost $94,248 in value over the last two months, or else it gained $32,799 in the last 30 days.
realestate  research  psychology  nytimes  money 
august 2007 by bradbarrish
‘More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics’ - New York Times
You've read elsewhere about the sin of promiscuity. Let me tell you about the sin of self-restraint.
sex  health  economics  statistics  nytimes 
july 2007 by bradbarrish
Universal in Dispute With Apple Over iTunes - New York Times
The Universal Music Group of Vivendi last week notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes
mac  itunes  music  nytimes  business 
july 2007 by bradbarrish
Moving Beyond Kyoto - New York Times
WE — the human species — have arrived at a moment of decision. It is unprecedented and even laughable for us to imagine that we could actually make a conscious choice as a species, but that is nevertheless the challenge that is before us.
algore  nytimes  globalwarming  environment  liveearth 
july 2007 by bradbarrish
Word of Mouth, and How to Get It - New York Times
You need to figure out a way to get your customers to “spark a conversation” about your product, because providing a great product or service is not enough.
business  money  marketing  media  nytimes  audrey 
june 2007 by bradbarrish
Read Any Good Books Lately? - New York Times
We asked a handful of writers what books they’ve enjoyed most over the last few months, and why. Their choices — from best sellers to poetry collections to a philosophy of science — are idiosyncratic and instructive.
lists  books  literature  nytimes  culture 
june 2007 by bradbarrish
What I Think About Evolution - New York Times
The truths of science and faith are complementary: they deal with very different questions, but they do not contradict each other because the spiritual order and the material order were created by the same God.
creationism  election  evolution  nytimes  politics  religion  wtf  science 
june 2007 by bradbarrish
Music Labels - EMI - New York Times
Despite costly efforts to build buzz around new talent and thwart piracy, CD sales have plunged more than 20 percent this year, far outweighing any gains made by digital sales at iTunes and similar services.
music  business  news  money  marketing  sales  nytimes 
june 2007 by bradbarrish
Bottled Water - Recycling - Plastics - Waste and Pollution - Beverages - New York Times
It’s easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental, the sinister and the sublime. The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these.
nytimes  environment  politics  government  water  recycling  news 
may 2007 by bradbarrish
Watching a Show Live, With 72 Hours to Do It - New York Times
AS the big broadcast networks complete a week of previews for Madison Avenue of their schedules for the coming season, the same words are on everyone’s lips: the phrase “live plus three.”
news  tv  nytimes  media 
may 2007 by bradbarrish
The Once and Future Pee-wee - New York Times
Mr. Reubens remains the hero of legions of post-adolescents and their parents, who recall him as an anarchic imp, a shrewd merchant of anticonformity
nytimes 
may 2007 by bradbarrish
Remaking Old Hits to Earn New Money - New York Times
In the decade and a half since Wang Chung dissolved, the licensing of music to advertisers, television and movies has become more acceptable — and much more lucrative — for performers from the past.
music  business  news  nytimes  copyright  licensing  tv  law 
april 2007 by bradbarrish
Hot and Cold - New York Times
Last week began with a Supreme Court decision declaring that the federal government had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and all but ordering the Bush administration to do so.
environment  politics  globalwarming  bush  government  nytimes 
april 2007 by bradbarrish
From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype - New York Times
“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in
algore  environment  liveearth  news  nytimes  globalwarming 
march 2007 by bradbarrish
James Cameron - Jimmy Iovine - 3-D - Music - New York Times
As part of a newly created venture, Mr. Cameron is working with Jimmy Iovine, the chairman of the Interscope Geffen A&M record label, to produce music films, concerts and other content in 3-D to show in specially equipped theaters. Mr. Iovine and Mr. Came
music  concerts  business  future  video  technology  nytimes 
march 2007 by bradbarrish
A Vision in the Desert - New York Times
Since the 1960s Abu Dhabi has morphed into a modern capital of hotels and high rises, fulfilling the economic vision of the United Arab Emirates’ ambitious former leader, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan.
travel  culture  architecture  news  nytimes 
february 2007 by bradbarrish
An Internet Video Partnership From 2 Lions of Old Media (Eisner and Jann Wenner) - New York Times
Wenner Media and Veoh Networks will announce a partnership today between Usmagazine.com, the Web site for Mr. Wenner’s Us Weekly, and Veoh.com, a video-sharing Web site and a competitor of YouTube.com, to create a celebrity entertainment channel on Veoh
socialnetworking  celebrity  media  news  nytimes 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Big Labels Offer Free Music to College Students - New York Times
In one more attempt to counter music piracy, major music labels have agreed to support a service that will offer free music downloads — with some substantial restrictions — to any college student.
music  news  nytimes  downloads  subscription  youth  marketing 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Art Buchwald | The New York Times
The first video obituary for the NY Times.
death  nytimes  video 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
A Church’s Challenge: Holding On to Its Young - New York Times
As Pentecostalism advances across the world, winning converts faster than any other Christian denomination and siphoning believers from more established faiths, it is also suffering its own slow leak: young people who are falling away from the faith.
nytimes  news  religion  youth 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Hollywood Asks YouTube: Friend or Foe? - New York Times
As YouTube, with the backing of Google, becomes a powerful force in the media world, Hollywood studios and other entertainment companies are trying to figure out if it is friend or foe.
youtube  news  video  universal  movie  piracy  nytimes 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Revamping of EMI Begins With Management Shake-Up - New York Times
In an unexpected shake-up, the British music giant EMI Group has fired its chief of recorded music, Alain Levy, ahead of a broad reorganization aimed at reviving the flagging company, according to executives briefed on the plan.
emi  music  business  news  media  nytimes 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
The Ununited States, When It Comes to the Weather - New York Times
Some climate experts muse that the innately variegated climate across the country might help explain why it has taken longer for human-caused global warming to rise to the level of a national priority here than in Europe.
environment  nytimes  politics  science  globalwarming  weather 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Black Tie Optional - New York Times
The Pundits have been throwing naked parties since 1995. Students who throw them at Brown say naked partying began there back in the 1980s. Since then, the idea has caught on.
culture  education  youth  popculture  nytimes  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
America the Overfull - New York Times
We are passing through a confused period of aggression and fear, characterized by our confrontational government, the decline of diplomacy, a pugnacious foreign policy and a settled belief that the surest way to get people to tell the truth is to torture
politics  culture  environment  travel  nytimes  history  news  america 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Pop Music - Iraq War - Music - Column - New York Times
Thoughts of romance, vice and comfort still dominated the charts and the airwaves. But amid the entertainment, songwriters — including some aiming for the Top 10 — were also grappling with a war that wouldn’t go away.
music  war  politics  nytimes  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Provocative Retail Chain Is Acquired - New York Times
American Apparel, the casual clothing chain whose socially conscious manufacturing, sexually charged advertising and snug-fitting T-shirts have generated a cultlike following, will be sold to a little-known investment firm for $382.5 million, according to
business  fashion  apparel  money  nytimes  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
AOL Chief Has a View, a Long One - New York Times
Mr. Falco and his new deputy, Ron Grant, made their first moves yesterday to run AOL for the long haul by doing something its employees have become accustomed to in the six tumultuous years since the company merged with Time Warner: reorganizing the execu
nytimes  aol  business  media  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Theater of the Absurd at the T.S.A. - New York Times
For theater on a grand scale, you can’t do better than the audience-participation dramas performed at airports, under the direction of the Transportation Security Administration.
travel  nytimes  security  government  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Chetes - Gerardo Garza - Music - Report - New York Times
“When I first heard him I was like, does he know how good he is?” Mr. Coomer said in a beaming and breathless Southern drawl. “I thought his music was timeless. Producers typically look for the flavor of the month, but he had something that was clas
music  nytimes  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Craigslist Meets the Capitalists - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds -- DealBook - New York Times
Jim Buckmaster, the chief executive of Craigslist, caused lots of head-scratching Thursday as he tried to explain to a bunch of Wall Street types why his company is not interested in “monetizing” his ridiculously popular Web operation.
business  nytimes  money  blog  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Open-Source Spying - New York Times
The spy agencies were saddled with technology that might have seemed cutting edge in 1995.
government  technology  politics  war  terrorism  nytimes  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Seeking Executive to Tame the Digital Future - New York Times
In the last few weeks, there has been a stampede of change involving the top Internet executives at big media companies. Most significant, Jonathan F. Miller, the chairman and chief executive of AOL, was replaced at that Time Warner division by Randy Fal
media  internet  online  money  management  business  nytimes  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
100 Notable Books of the Year - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005.
lists  2006  books  gifts  nytimes  best 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
Music - AARP - Report - New York Times
Older consumers (along with children) represent one of the few reliable markets in the music business these days, and AARP, the organization for older Americans, is keen to capitalize on that.
music  business  sociology  marketing  future  nytimes  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich - New York Times
Almost anywhere else, Reid Hoffman would be considered a major success. As an early executive of PayPal, he was in the money when the company was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. These days, he runs a new start-up company of his own while investing
money  trends  web  nytimes  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
Drug Doubles Endurance, Study Says - New York Times
Given that some athletes will take almost anything to gain a one percent edge in performance, what might they do for a 100 percent improvement?
health  fitness  nytimes  science  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
How to Make Your Web Site Sing for You - New York Times
THE idea that if you build it, they will come, might have worked for Kevin Costner in the movie “Field of Dreams,” but it certainly does not hold true for Web sites.
blog  marketing  nytimes  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
The Online Auteurs - New York Times
Some people were clowns at the kitchen table and in Mrs. Gadjodnick’s third-grade class — they’ve been funny all their lives — and without making a big thing out of it, they’ve always believed that the world could use them up there on the silver
humor  nytimes  web  video  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
Government-subsidized rock bands - Music - Report - New York Times
In a little-understood chapter in the history of cultural exchange, nations from around the world have been choosing musical outfits and sending them to the biggest music markets abroad in hopes of raising their international profile and generating export
international  music  business  nytimes  culture  government  politics  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
The Dress Code Is Relaxed, but the Courting Is Intense - New York Times
Dozens of the world’s biggest media moguls and investment bankers, dressed in perfectly pressed suits, mingled in the lobby of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan yesterday at the annual FourSquare conference.
business  humor  youtube  facebook  media  nytimes  news 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
The United States of America vs. 'New York Times' Editor Bill Keller -- New York Magazine
How hard is it to be executive editor of the New York Times today? The White House calls him a traitor. He gets roasted every day on talk shows and blogs. The newsroom is losing faith. The paper is shrinking. And the worst part is that fighting back means
politics  bush  nytimes  news 
september 2006 by bradbarrish

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