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Born in Sabetha, Kansas, Mr. Ellington moved with his family to Topeka where he completed his high school education. When he began his college education at Washburn University he recalls calling the d

It's a Friday night and magic is in the air. Maybe it's the excitement from the release of the iPhone 5. Maybe it's all the extra LTE waves flying through the air. Or, maybe it's that special type...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies that could include a forced spinoff of the social network's Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services...

Independent musicians detail how Bandcamp is putting money in their pocket in a more meaningful way than Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

Fund-raisers, grants, and governmental relief are all helping to keep musical artists afloat. Yet the industry may already be showing signs of permanent damage.

"The response was amazing. It ended up being 4.3 million dollars in 24 hours. People bought about 800,000 items in that day. About 15 times a normal Friday for us."

How CEO Daniel Ek plans to beat Apple, Amazon, and Google at the music game.

User growth and advertising recover from a pandemic slump.

Summary Rob Lord was the founder of the Internet Underground Music Archive all the way back in 1993. This would become the first website devoted ...

Summary Most of you know Chamath Palihapitiya as one of the most prominent and progressive venture capitalists working today. But before forming Social Capital, Chamath ...

Summary If you know the Napster story at all, then you know about the Shawn(Sean)s. Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. But in my opinion, and ...

Summary: Just as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare ...

Summary: David Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played ...

Summary: Our friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So ...

This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands.

The Village Voice is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in New York.

Reviews of new releases by Hurricane Chris, Kate Nash, the Almost, 1990s and Z-Ro.

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.[2] The book won the National Book Award[3] and Pulitzer Prize[4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.[5]

The 1939 review of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

We are often told that data are the new oil. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature. It must be appropriated. The capture and processing of so...

The social network’s increasing threat to journalism

Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five hundred. We […]

Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our ti…

Facebook is doomed.

A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.

On our inaugural episode of The Diff, [Joel](https://twitter.com/JoelMarcey) talks to [Christine Abernathy](https://twitter.com/abernathyca) and [Eric Nakagawa](https://twitter.com/ericnakagawa), open source developer advocates at Facebook.