Nov 23, 2008
Fintan Blake Kelly explains on video the idea behind DbTwang, a soon-to-be-launched allowing collectors worldwide to track and trade guitars. They are looking for investors. The Irish Times recently quoted Fintan: While straight statistics on guitar sales are hard to find in Ireland, we are lucky to have the prospect of one of the few
Nov 16, 2008
Ulf Ekberg, lead singer of Ace of Base, explains the radical idea behind the band’s new website. Although Ace of Base made the Guinness Book of World Records for the most copies of debut album sold, but now they plan to give away their music for free. Fans can download all the band’s new music
Oct 30, 2008
If video killed the radio star, this week the Internet just killed the VJ. I just had a great nostalgic moment playing the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” on the new MTV Internet platform that was launched on Tuesday. The platform is intended to counteract YouTube’s defacto dominance as the best place to find
Aug 3, 2008
One highlight of the Fortune Brainstorm conference for me was the final speaker, Neil Young, the musician. I knew Young would be obsessed with music, but I did not know technology was an obsession as well. He is currently figuring out how to make his boat-sized convertible (a Cadillac?) into a hybrid. Young does not,
Apr 7, 2008
The morning after I heard her in concert, I had a chance to do a video quizzing composer, pianist and poet Lera Auerbach about the meaning of music. As a non-musical person, this quest for the meaning of music has become a bit of a crusade. I asked the same of the Chinese composer Chou
Jan 31, 2008
Photo by Clay Chandler Apology from Thomas Crampton and David Garcia We, as members of the committee organizing for Jimmy Buffett’s Hong Kong concert on January 18, would like to apologize. Why apologize for a sell-out concert organized in less than six months raising more than HK$420,000 for Hong Kong’s neediest children? Why apologize for
Jan 31, 2008
Jimmy Buffett Hong Kong concert interview Part 1 Above video is a great interview of Jimmy Buffett done by Stephen Engle of Bloomberg shortly before the concert he gave here in Hong Kong to support the FCC Charity Fund. Buffett plays a few “unplugged” versions of his songs on an acoustic guitar. Worth a watch/listen
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
