I developed Bonime’s Law a long time ago when personal computers had no hard drives, dual 5.25” floppy drives, 256K RAM, and a CPU that ran at 1.44Hz.
In those days the killer apps were word processors like Wordstar (later, WordPerfect from Satellite Software Incorporated), Spreadsheet/database combos like Lotus 123, and no graphics. The text based screens [...]
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Bonime’s Law: As Hardware Improves, Software Degrades — True in Music, TV and Movies As Well
Posted in marketing, media, music, sociology, technology, tagged CD, code, computers, computing power, creativity, downloading, hardware, hi def, high definition, illeagl, movies, mp3, music, programmer, quality, screen, software, surround sound, TV on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CD Review: Laura Pursell: Somewhere In This Room
Posted in media, music, tagged adult contemporary, Andrew Bonime, ballad, CD, cloudshine global music, gospel, guitar, jazz, label, Laura Pursell, music, new, oboe, orchestra, popular music, publisher, record, review, singer, song, viola, violin, vocal on February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Laura Pursell ~ Somewhere in this RoomDate: Sunday, February 10, 2008 @ 15:43:42 ESTTopic: ReviewsArtist: Laura PursellCD: Somewhere in this RoomHome: Newbury Park, CaliforniaStyle: Adult ContemporaryQuote: “Jazz so smooth you could spread it on bread.”By Jamie Anderson Backed by lush instrumentation, this jazz performer pours her buttery vocals over each phrase. She wrote the lyrics too, with gorgeous melodies by Andrew Bonime. It’s a [...]
BUY Music You Like
Posted in marketing, media, music, tagged downloads, labels, marketing, media, music, myspace, publishing, recording, youth culture on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My company, Cloudshine Global Music maintains a page on MySpace. After more than 3,500 “friends” joined our site, most of them raving about our music, we realized that there was absolutely no correlation between the professed support for our recent album release (Laura Pursell: Somewhere In This Room) and actual sales. Many were musicians, bands, songwriters, [...]
A Boomer’s Adventures in MySpace
Posted in marketing, media, music, sociology on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I opened my music label Cloudshine Global Music, I did what the common wisdom dictates you should do: Get on MySpace and build up a fan base. As a 50+ baby boomer, I felt a little like Dorothy must have felt at her first glimpse of color after leaving black and white Kansas. But I [...]
