“The Cataleya orchid. It comes from one place on Earth. Our place. My mother, your grandmother, used to grow them. Every morning I would wake up to the sight of them. The smell of them. That’s why I named you after them. It reminds us of who we are.” From the movie “COLOMBIANA”. Written by […]
Continue reading →“This year marks the 100th birthday of the T-shirt. Maybe” – Here is a site that doesn’t take itself too seriously. That’s cool with me; it is T-shirt we are talking about, not rocket science. However, they do say in the article that 100 years ago, in 1913, the U.S. Navy ordered a light undershirt for […]
Continue reading →So we have seen that the movie industry has set some incredible records in the last several years (read more here), and that the word of mouth, which is a fundamental reason for the short head, works overtime when it come to movies (read more here). Now let’s fly a little higher and check some […]
Continue reading →“Industry has a lot to do with things… The industry is tough, especially for a band like us, a rock band right now. We’re not bitter about it or anything like, “Fuck the music industry”, that’s the last thing we’re thinking. We’re all continuing to do music” After 10 years together as a band, […]
Continue reading →When I was in Merida, Venezuela, in 1998, they told me I must go to the Heladeria Coromoto, a famous ice cream parlor that holds the Guinness record for its variety of flavors.
Continue reading →“Apple said that every one of the 1 million tracks in iTunes had sold at least once“ This is a common expression (from 2006) used to emphasize the long tail theory. Another one is the story in the introduction to the “long tail” book, of how Mr. Anderson learns from Ecast, a music-streaming company, that […]
Continue reading →Five years after his Russian wife left him in Italy for a young servant, Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto made his most famous observation. He found that twenty percent of the population in Italy owned eighty percent of its land. The year was 1906 and this observation, that had nothing to do with his wife’s […]
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