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Surviving the Net Crunch: A Practical Guide for Print Publications in a Digital World

[25.Jul.08] :. Forget about easy answers, and don't think that the latest hip tech craze will save: PopMatters' Jason Gross offers advice for how long-running print publications can adapt to this brave new Net-driven world.

Recent features

 

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

Super Scribing

[15.Jan.08] :. Gold medal: the best writing of the year.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

 

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

Superior Scribing

[15.Jan.08] :. Silver medal: excellent pieces of writing.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

 

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

Quality Scribing

[14.Jan.08] :. Bronze medal: great story ideas, well executed.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

 

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

Bottom of the Barrel

[14.Jan.08] :. Confiscate their laptops: the worst writing of the year.

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007

 

Best Music Scribing Awards 2007   Other Arts

Music   CBGB's and New York: "Thank You & To Hell With Nostalgia"

Blog posts

Crazed by the Music

Black Kids and Pitchfork: Screw-up or hubris?

[22.Jul.08] :. If you go to Pitchfork for their review of the new record by Black Kids, you'll see a SORRY message with two long-faced doggies. Cute but you have to wonder if they're not tooting their own horn a...

Crazed by the Music

 

Crazed by the Music

Houston's indie blues

[17.Jul.08] :. The sad, depressing story of a city of four million people minus an indie scene from the Houston Press. An insane incident of police over-reacting in '06 to a club show didn't help but John Nova...

Crazed by the Music

 

Crazed by the Music

RIP cabaret laws in Gotham?

[16.Jul.08] :. Not so fast but it looks like the Mayor is at least considering it. Thanks to these decades-old laws that were dusted off by Giuliani, club life in New York took a severe blow and has had trouble...

Crazed by the Music

 

Crazed by the Music

Classical music crits support their own so where's the other org's?

[13.Jul.08] :. It's nice to see classical writers support their own in the face of constant downsizing at newspapers across America: the The Music Critics Association of North America did in this posting at Poynter...

Crazed by the Music

 

Crazed by the Music

Viacom vs. YouTube/Google vs. You

[8.Jul.08] :. Google's headaches about YouTube keep mounting including the fact that they can't figure out how to sell ads there. Now they're being forced by Viacom to hand over user information (that's including...

Crazed by the Music

 

Crazed by the Music   Washington Post actually hires a critic!

Crazed by the Music   NYC rents driving out more record stores

Crazed by the Music   Two good causes- R&B Foundation and RED

Crazed by the Music   Help save Arthur magazine

Crazed by the Music   When is a zine not a zine- a PSF dilemma

Crazed by the Music   Technological sabbath- realistic in our wired world?

Crazed by the Music   Why Walmart won't save local papers but Craigslist and Google may

Crazed by the Music   AP vs. bloggers- who's got the moral high ground?

Crazed by the Music   Another tech reality check- Facebook not an underdog and Metallica wises up a little

Crazed by the Music   Branding experiments- the good, the bad and the fuggly

Crazed by the Music   DeRogatis vs. Kelly

Crazed by the Music   Welcome Blurt Magazine

Crazed by the Music   Tech reality check- iPhone hoopla and Microsoft vs. newspapers

Crazed by the Music   The Filter- latest/greatest way to hook up with music?

Crazed by the Music   Time Warner Cable tries metering Net use- how will it effect the entertainment biz?

Crazed by the Music   R. Kelly vs. DeRogatis- scapegoat for the defense?

Crazed by the Music   Should CD boosters and web hatas take heart in one survey?

Crazed by the Music   Hilary Rosen's Return

Crazed by the Music   Brownstein and the L.A. TImes skim the facts on the Dead

Crazed by the Music   Apple finally getting flexible with prices?

Crazed by the Music   Killing off music clubs & dropping ad sales for Idol, Facebook

Crazed by the Music   Opinons vs. selling songs and a scribe's farewell to the classical world

Crazed by the Music   Zune- DRM friendly, consumer unfriendly... so does Neil Young have the answer?

Crazed by the Music   Blurt emerges out of Harp's ashes

Crazed by the Music   Nine Inch Nails- another month, another free album

Crazed by the Music   Where's DIY classic recreations?

Crazed by the Music   Starbucks retreats & Paste/RS up the ad ante

Crazed by the Music   Did Dylan deserve the Pulitzer?

Crazed by the Music   Does Lisa Robinson have the right idea about promos?

Crazed by the Music   Alicia Keys vs. Blender: Who's the liar?

Crazed by the Music   Comcast gets nasty, MySpace screws indies

Crazed by the Music   Pay per view blogs

Crazed by the Music   Buzznet gets hungrier and the whack iPod tax

Crazed by the Music   Why download for free? Not because your credit history sucks

Crazed by the Music   Crawdaddy returns too

Crazed by the Music   Broadside Magazine returns

Crazed by the Music   Music, Politics and Censorship in Lukashenko’s Belarus

Crazed by the Music   Thinking big with experts

Crazed by the Music   PSF April Fools- Carducci and Coley

Crazed by the Music   RIP Resonance magazine

Crazed by the Music   The BuzzNet cyborg will assimilate your blog

Crazed by the Music   Downloading surcharge: The right answer for consumers?

Crazed by the Music   Tupac and the L.A. Times: Will the truth come out?

Crazed by the Music   Big labels don't want music in the libraries

Crazed by the Music   One big happy satellite radio monopoly

Crazed by the Music   Nine Inch Nails' experiment: A bigger bang than Radiohead?

Crazed by the Music   RIP Net Radio?

Crazed by the Music   Reviewers no more? The disappearing advance copy

Crazed by the Music   SXSW- what does a band want from a multi-stage fest?

Crazed by the Music   Official Harp statement about the end of the magazine

Crazed by the Music   Harp's demise

Crazed by the Music   Zorn and Britney: The strange dance between artist and press

Crazed by the Music   Walmart blackmailing labels over price?

Crazed by the Music   Wiki album- an idea whose time has come?

Crazed by the Music   Labels not sharing their RIAA settlement money with artists

Crazed by the Music   Clapton in North Korea would be good for who?

Crazed by the Music   Maxim vs. The Black Crowes- isolated incident?

Crazed by the Music   The fine art of the interview and why some artists are stuck in culthood

Crazed by the Music   RIP No Depression

Crazed by the Music   GOP is against music theft, unless it's them doing it...

Crazed by the Music   Your band's webpage sucks! (and what to do about it)

Crazed by the Music   Blogs beat MySpace and fans become producers

Crazed by the Music   Grammy 08 Round-up

Crazed by the Music   Grammys 08- what's to watch?

Crazed by the Music   Rock critics on Late Night TV

Crazed by the Music   Timbaland and the innovation of the phone album

Crazed by the Music   New publishing ideas...

Crazed by the Music   DIY without RIAA

Crazed by the Music   Mark Cuban buries the album too soon and MPAA overstates its case

Crazed by the Music   Blender's editorial blunder?

Crazed by the Music   Record industry coming to an end (again)

Crazed by the Music   Of awards, praise and scribing

Crazed by the Music   Did Radiohead succeed and Trent/Saul fail?

Crazed by the Music   RIP streaming music?

Crazed by the Music   Musical tasers and a 699,000 sales loser

Crazed by the Music   RIP DRM and high/low culture?

Crazed by the Music   RIAA innocent? In no sense...

Crazed by the Music   RIAA sez you can't rip music & lawyers warn of labels' 360 contracts

Crazed by the Music   New Year's resolutions and best music writing of 07

Crazed by the Music   My real list of favorite music of '07

Crazed by the Music   Push back the FCC's gift to big media

Crazed by the Music   David Byrne and Thom Yorke explain why albums are still important

Crazed by the Music   FCC baddies win this round in media consolidation

Crazed by the Music   Stop the FCC's media consolidation plans!

Crazed by the Music   RIAA wants you jailed for ripping CD's

Crazed by the Music   Indies bite back and RIP Ike Turner

Crazed by the Music   Robots for Souljah vs. Bill Clinton

Crazed by the Music   The Decline and Fall of Reviewing (again)

Crazed by the Music   Paste's pay-what-you-want experiment pays off

Crazed by the Music   Dan Deacon and the perils of ad spaces and RIP Stockhausen

Crazed by the Music   Of liquor licenses and musicians

Crazed by the Music   More right and wrong ways to fix the music biz

Crazed by the Music   Zune surge? Don't believe the hype

Crazed by the Music   Perfect Sound Forever- December 07 edition

Crazed by the Music   Tis the season for year end lists

Crazed by the Music   Smoking ads- time to quit?

Crazed by the Music   The Creem Wars continue

Crazed by the Music   Amy Winehouse: In need of help?

Crazed by the Music   David Brooks almost gets it; Jermaine Dupri doesn't

Crazed by the Music   Quiet time- time to turn off the music?

Crazed by the Music   Another music model and the power of music

Crazed by the Music   Radiohead's rainbow turns into a publishing model

Crazed by the Music   What do artists owe their fans?

Crazed by the Music   Was Radiohead's download experiment a failure?

Crazed by the Music   Eagles beat Britney, meaning what...?

Crazed by the Music   EMI blames artists for its failures

Crazed by the Music   Govt study sez downloaders buy music too

Crazed by the Music   Christgau not gone

Crazed by the Music   How does a music scribe make their mark?

Crazed by the Music   The Net quandary- is the online world doomed?

Crazed by the Music   Talking loud and saying nothing about art?

Crazed by the Music   Technobrega and piracy

Crazed by the Music   Help preserve Moog's legacy

Crazed by the Music   Indie rock's white burden?

Crazed by the Music   Bling and blood

Crazed by the Music   How healthy is the NYC club scene?

Crazed by the Music   Fear of Facebook and technology

Crazed by the Music   Fiona Apple and the horrors of OCD

Crazed by the Music   Concerts and the cool quotient

Crazed by the Music   Radiohead throws down the gauntlet

Crazed by the Music   Robert Plant: Too old to rock and roll?

Crazed by the Music   RIAA's lawsuits going the way of the dinosaur?

Crazed by the Music   Steve Earle and Nick Lowe: Hoping not to sing their songs

Crazed by the Music   CMJ scamming bands?

Crazed by the Music   Meg White- what's news and what's tabloid trash?

Crazed by the Music   Amazon downloads open for business

Crazed by the Music   Vision Festival- matching grants

Crazed by the Music   antiMusic ain't for sale

Crazed by the Music   The State Department keeps America safe from music scholars

Crazed by the Music   Trent Raznor wants you to steal his CD

Crazed by the Music   Band of Horses and the sponsorship dilemma

Crazed by the Music   Soul Patrol's music panels

Crazed by the Music   Britney's bumbling: Is the hate overplayed?

Crazed by the Music   Apple sauce

Crazed by the Music   Read a book campaign- helpful or disgraceful?

Crazed by the Music   Master P- from gangsta to role model

Crazed by the Music   Why DRM won't work and why music education does

Crazed by the Music   Toby Keith comes clean (maybe)

Crazed by the Music   Apple's new challenges

Crazed by the Music   Are these the best of musical times?

Crazed by the Music   Why we need blogs

Crazed by the Music   Another bogus piracy study

Crazed by the Music   Invasion of the supposed iPod killers

Crazed by the Music   Detailing the music industry's decline

Crazed by the Music   Will Watermarks replace DRM and will that be a good thing?

Crazed by the Music   Why does Sir Elton want to kill the Net?

Crazed by the Music   Is AT&T pro-censorship?

Crazed by the Music   XXL magazine

Crazed by the Music   Jack White and the 4th Estate

Crazed by the Music   August/Sept issue of Perfect Sound Forever

Crazed by the Music   Help save Bobby Robinson's home- August 3rd, NYC

Crazed by the Music   Another good killed column- MTV's Things that suck

Crazed by the Music   Is print media scared of freebies?

Crazed by the Music   A model for beginning bands

Crazed by the Music   A survival model for composers

Crazed by the Music   A funding model for jazz and other music

Crazed by the Music   Writers really ARE frustrated musicians! (not)

Crazed by the Music   It's your song now- new income for musicians?

Crazed by the Music   More radio hijinx- web radio piracy and indie contracts

Crazed by the Music   Oldies still rule the charts

Crazed by the Music   New postal rates mean fewer print zines

Crazed by the Music   Music as public and private spectacle

Crazed by the Music   Do scribes matter in the pop realm?

Crazed by the Music   Less music on the web thanks to major labels?

Crazed by the Music   Guilty pleasures: Helen Reddy vs. Capt. Beefheart

Crazed by the Music   Why classical might not matter to many

Crazed by the Music   Avril vs. the Rubinoos- does she know more than she's letting on?

Crazed by the Music   More licensing hijinx

Crazed by the Music   A post-label world? Sonic Youth and Prince look for alternatives

Crazed by the Music   iPhone vs. Working Assets- is Apple just a bunch of telecomm whores?

Crazed by the Music   iPhone- believe SOME of the hype...

Crazed by the Music   Imus redux-redux & MySpace class wars

Crazed by the Music   Take Action- Support Low Power Radio

Crazed by the Music   RIP Punk Planet

Crazed by the Music   Betty Davis and the black rock freak show

Crazed by the Music   RIP advance release dates?

Crazed by the Music   Omerta and the idea of "don't snitch"

Crazed by the Music   Sopranos follow-up

Crazed by the Music   'The Sopranos': Did the audience get whacked?

Crazed by the Music   Lefsetz- don't know much about country (or rap)

Crazed by the Music   Macca's coffee hangover

Crazed by the Music   Transgenders don't get no respect

Crazed by the Music   Sgt Pepper's: It was 40 years ago...

Crazed by the Music   Perfect Sound Forever- June/July 07 edition

Crazed by the Music   CBS eats Last FM but will it get indigestion?

Crazed by the Music   Rap Sessions: Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?

Crazed by the Music   Jazzcorner and Bluegum

Crazed by the Music   Hip-hop lilith fair & in search of Yankee playwrights

Crazed by the Music   Used CD crackdowns will NOT save the music industry

Crazed by the Music   P2P

Crazed by the Music   SoundExchange and RIAA

Crazed by the Music   Russell Simmons and the dirty words

Crazed by the Music   Save print music zines

Crazed by the Music   Ornette finally gets props

Crazed by the Music   Imus and the scapegoats

Crazed by the Music   Punk professor online

Crazed by the Music   Is the Apple/EMI DRM-free world a paradise?

Crazed by the Music   Arthur Magazine resurrected?

Crazed by the Music   RIP Lower Eastside Clubs (and NYC clubs?)

Crazed by the Music   DMCA architect admits mistakes- when will the rest of the industry?

Crazed by the Music   RIAA's self-inflicted woes

Crazed by the Music   Ultragrrrl redux redux

Crazed by the Music   Should rock critics be musicians? Part XXXVII

Crazed by the Music   Ultragrrrl Redux

Crazed by the Music   Blues resource & hip-hop history

Crazed by the Music   Good news for indie radio and bad news for webcasters

Crazed by the Music   Tell Congress to fund the arts

Crazed by the Music   YouTube and the new video rules

Crazed by the Music   RIP Arthur Magazine

Crazed by the Music   Rap's manhood issue & Country's Grammy snub

Crazed by the Music   TV On the Radio Vs. The Village Voice- truly racist?

Crazed by the Music   The Godfather of Soul

Crazed by the Music   Pazz and Jop in a Post-Dean era

Crazed by the Music   Good Grammys

Crazed by the Music   DRM: Is Apple or are the record labels right?

Crazed by the Music   RIAA's fuzzy CD math

Crazed by the Music   Steve Job's DRM dance

Crazed by the Music   Why won't the album die?

Crazed by the Music   Navel-gazing as journo trend?

Crazed by the Music   Best Music Journalism of '06

Crazed by the Music   RIAA vs. Mixtapes

Crazed by the Music   Will pay-for-click save online journalism?

Crazed by the Music   Payola reviews- no surprise

Crazed by the Music   Major's newest revenue stream- lawsuits

Crazed by the Music   Question Mark's tragedy

Crazed by the Music   Remember Dr. King

Crazed by the Music   iPhone- the ultimate '07 gizmo?

Crazed by the Music   Rolling Stone and MTV show part of the scribe reality

Crazed by the Music   Where's arts coverage and late year hip-hop releases?

Crazed by the Music   Idolator Poll Results and the Voice's revenge

Crazed by the Music   06 gone already

Crazed by the Music   Invasion of the year-end top 10 lists

Crazed by the Music   Time's person of the year isn't "you"

Crazed by the Music   Don't bury journalists just yet

Crazed by the Music   Where's the classical celebs?

Crazed by the Music   Adage to FCC: Drop your head

Crazed by the Music   RIAA to artists: Drop dead

Crazed by the Music   Criticizing the critics- the art of revenge

Crazed by the Music   Warner CEO's kids have a get-out-of-jail-free card from RIAA

Crazed by the Music   More stalwart voices line up against the FCC's puritanical crusade

Crazed by the Music   Which poll is the real music scribes' poll?

Crazed by the Music   Heard the news?: The embarrassment of hearing loss

Crazed by the Music   All-time greatest records: Who's got the right answer?

Crazed by the Music   Borat and the great art/life divide: The Frankenstein factor

Crazed by the Music   Teach your children... the crit basics

Crazed by the Music   Hearing loss: More good news for audiologists

Crazed by the Music   Another/better Ellen Willis tribute

Crazed by the Music   Microsoft zunes out?

Crazed by the Music   More Congress tips about music

Crazed by the Music   RIP Ellen W & Teddy

Crazed by the Music   Dem tips for Congress- a music agenda

Crazed by the Music   YouTube and MySpace clear the decks for copyright

Crazed by the Music   NBC and CW fearfully smooching Dubya's feet?

Crazed by the Music   Web tracking- why their mistakes could kill off publications

Crazed by the Music   Sanity creeps into the FCC

Crazed by the Music   The power of prizes

Crazed by the Music   Xgau on NPR

Crazed by the Music   Sumner smacks up the FCC bee-atches

Crazed by the Music   Newspapers' survival and the case against Digital Rights

Crazed by the Music   Indie Band Life-O-Meter

Crazed by the Music   Cultural diplomacy serves who?

Crazed by the Music   John Lennon- who's a racist?

Crazed by the Music   Opening acts- the shame and the glory

Crazed by the Music   Snowjobs- FCC and Microsoft's Zune

Crazed by the Music   More Reflecting on 9-11- why we need "stupid" pop culture

Crazed by the Music   EMI Beats the Beachles

Crazed by the Music   Reflecting on Sept 11th- dare we entertain ourselves?

Crazed by the Music   Gang of Four's supposed politics

Crazed by the Music   Paul Nelson memorial today

Crazed by the Music   A Voice without Christgau

Crazed by the Music   Katrina- almost time to forget again

Crazed by the Music   Pay for review ethics?

Crazed by the Music   Warning- reading this could give you an STD

Crazed by the Music   RIAA's latest new low

Crazed by the Music   Dada and the continued search for shock value

Crazed by the Music   Newsflash: being musically out of touch gets you a byline!

Crazed by the Music   The 6-foot sweet spot for home media

Crazed by the Music   Why Apple is still winning the MP3 player wars- Part XXXVI

Crazed by the Music   RIP Arthur Lee

Crazed by the Music   The Godz reunite to reissue... and sue

Crazed by the Music   MTV: Culturally Dead?

Crazed by the Music   Jessica Simpson: Digital Music Hero?

Crazed by the Music