We compensate artists and publishers extremely well. There are millions and millions of dollars that are being made and paid. There’s a misunderstanding of the value we bring to the catalog. What happens to your catalog in digital downloads? What happens to your merchandise? What happens to your ticket sales? When you look at the impact it can have on an Aerosmith, Van Halen or Metallica, it’s really significant, so much so that you sort of question whether or not, in the case of those kinds of products, you should be paying any money at all and whether it should be the reverse.”
– Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says the recording industry shouldn’t look a Guitar Hero gift horse in the mouth
Monday, June 2, 2008
My Lyrical Technique Will Leave Your Body Weak: D6 in Quotes
This year’s D conference had its share of great lines–tired ones, too (we’re all clear on the subject of Facebook and information sharing, right?). Here’s a selection of the former…
I will probably never be a CEO again.”
–Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang states the obvious
It’s a company that creates technology.
– Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answers the question, “What is a technology company?”
Friday, February 15, 2008
Yahoo Board to Yang: Save the Drama for Your Mama
Seems the Yahoo board’s “unanimous” rejection of Microsoft’s $40 billion-plus bid for the company may not have been so unanimous after all. According to the New York Post, the board is actually split over the issue.
On one side is Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Softbank Capital Partners and a [...]
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Web 2.0 Summit: Gaming
Trip Hawkins, Founder & CEO of Digital Chocolate, and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, take the stage to discuss “core gaming” with Webb Alert host Morgan Webb.
A bit slow getting started here, but Hawkins soon gets things moving by claiming traditional content is dead. We’re headed toward a world of immersive, social content, says Hawkins, [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
