Media Perspective: Everyone should welcome Spotify ... other than pirates.(Kindle DX e-book)(Column)

As is no doubt evident by now, I write these columns in a fairly haphazard way. I flail around all week, looking for interesting nuggets that might be telling or revealing in some way and then try to knit them together with a common theme.

Inevitably, there's always a leftover nugget at the end of the week, a little crumb that doesn't quite fit in and gets left in the pot for the following week. For a while now, that crumb has been Spotify. I'm sure you've heard of it, it's a tremendous service. You can listen to almost every music track you can think of, via the web, on your computer, for free with ads, or for money without ads. It's very nicely made, has all sorts of social …