My Hour on the Snooze Bar: Archive

GRAMMY Awards + Social Media

13 million social media comments. 1 million more than the Super Bowl. Best viewership since 1984 and second largest audience EVER. Very impressive social campaign by the GRAMMY Awards this year and a great example of how social media can translate to results offline. It should be interesting to see if the Academy Awards follow suit, and if not, how much of all this year to year growth is actually...

Feb 14th

Feb 8th

Tweets to Celebrities

One of the things that makes me feel really sad, right up there with seeing tourists trying to enjoy themselves on Hollywood Blvd., is reading the tweets people write to celebrities. Especially celebrities who clearly don’t maintain their own Twitter accounts. I may start posting some highlights here… because if I have to be sad, you do too.

Feb 4th

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Jan 18th

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Billboard's sales-chart tweaks not a hit with... →

Various folks commenting on the new chart rules, which I am still very much AGAINST. This quote in favor of the changes sums up my own opinion well: “The sales are great for consumers and the artists, but from a chart perspective it treats a $10 album and $1 album with equal legitimacy, which is dubious.” The sales are great for EVERYONE at a time when NOTHING seems to be good...

Jan 15th

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Wrong Number Texts

I’m starting to like these even more than DYAC…

Dec 9th

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12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular... →

Most of these make sense when you think about it, but poignant nonetheless.

Dec 6th

Meanwhile, In "The Future is Here" Music News...

Spotify Apps are here, along with lots of exciting possibilities to marry music and technology!

Dec 1st

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Chart Life After "Born This Way" →

Effective 11/21: “Unit sales for Albums priced below $3.49 during their first four weeks of release will not be eligible for inclusion on the Billboard album charts and will not count towards sales data presented by Nielsen SoundScan.” Very disappointed in that decision. I thought it was great that Amazon used Born This Way as the loss leader for their Cloud launch, and not just...

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Drinkify →

The robots are gettin’ good.

Nov 10th

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Spotify Playlist: Underrated 80's

Underplayed 80’s on Spotify My favorite 80’s new wave songs that I think are underrated, underplayed & overlooked, inspired by this time that I was standing in line at Petco and heard Heaven 17’s “Let Me Go” and thought “now there’s an 80’s jam I don’t hear nearly enough!” When to play: Occasions that call for something more...

Oct 28th

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Sep 28th

RookieMag.com

I feel completely unaccomplished and at the same time super inspired by Tavi Gevinson. RookieMag.com is a must read.

Sep 21st

Someday You'll Be Glad You Know...

…that silly string is used by the US military to detect tripwires. The string is sprayed over the suspected area, and if the string falls to the ground, no tripwires are present since the string would catch on the tripwires (but is not heavy enough to activate the explosive).

Sep 21st