During the past week, I have become a fan of the AMC series Mad Men. It's well written, directed and acted and captures the zeitgeist of an era that I find fascinating. (For anyone watching the program, I would have been about the age of the Draper's daughter at the [...]

Poor Chris Gorog. He's the guy who told everybody that he would be hugely successful if he created a legal version of Napster, the renegade Internet music file-sharing service that attracted 26 million monthly users until it was driven into bankruptcy by record industry lawsuits.[...]

While the cassette was dumped long ago by the music industry, it has lived on among publishers of audio books. But demand has slowed so much that publishers are phasing the technology out as well.[...]

At Apple's iTunes online store, Britney Spears and Shakespeare are separated by just a few clicks.[...]

STANFORD'S TOP HITS Through iTunes U, anyone can listen to lectures from professors at scores of colleges and universities.[...]

While some classical record labels have lost artistic focus or disappeared altogether amid crises in the music business, boutique operations like Nonesuch, ECM, Harmonia Mundi, and BIS have gone from strength to strength, with each new release extending a personal vision. New Albion, which was founded in Northern California twenty . . .[...]