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Gadget expert Peter Rojas gives Palm, the maker of Treo smartphones, some extremely tough love. Basically, he'd like the company to completely rethink its hardware designs, operating system, developer relations, and marketing in order to get back...


Blogfather explains why music is blog fodder

Peter Rojas, the founder of gadget blogs Engadget and Gizmodo, explains the thinking behind the RCRD LBL project to trendspotting site PSFK — important things like why it's a blog. Now if he'd only explain why he chose such an annoying name.


Engadget founder and newly married uberhipster Peter Rojas's Internet-only music label RCRD LBL will launch this November. Creative director Elliot Aronow parrots what little has been revealed of the venture: a network of ad-supported online music...


Free from Jason Calacanis, Veronica Belmont is immortalized in song

Veronica Belmont is no longer a "Rojas-level" hire at Jason Calacanis's Mahalo Daily videoblog. But she's lending her name to former Calacanis partner Peter Rojas's music site RCRD LBL. Or, rather, music group the Carps is lending it for her....


Jakob Lodwick disses Peter Rojas, just so we'll talk about him

Ousted Vimeo founder/CEO Jakob Lodwick has fallen into Tumblr-blogged obscurity. Without a scantily clad photo of Jakob and Julia every morning, why should we continue to care about his budding musical exploits? Lodwick must have gotten the memo,...


"Veronica Belmont is a 'Rojas-level' hire"

How high is Jason Calacanis on his new videoblogger? "Veronica Belmont is a Rojas-level hire," he reportedly told groupies who showed up for a dim sum dinner in New York's Chinatown yesterday. That may sound like praise for Belmont, the...


Music wants to be something other than free

"After a certain point the free 'promotional' use of their music becomes a substitute for people actually buying their music.... The problem is that the labels think their music is worth and what the market thinks it's worth are very different...


Xeni Jardin, Kevin Rose, and friends get in bed with Virgin

After wooing San Francisco at its hub airport, Virgin America has enlisted seven Internet heroes to pitch the new airline. Seen here are Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing; Peter Rojas of Engadget;...


Peter Rojas, protective papa

These days, even birth announcements go out via Twitter. That's how blogger Jill Fehrenbacher, wife of Engadget founder Peter Rojas, belatedly acknowledged the birth of their son, also named Peter. Can't blame her for being busy: She'd launched a...


Ad network fad hits music blogs

MP3 blog like Peter Rojas's RCRD LBL attract "tastemakers who wield considerable influence over their peers" reports Fortune. Only they don't attract very many of them. For example, Thefader.com has 93,000 monthly uniques, RCRD LBL, 125,000 and...