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The Library: published articles written by David

Here are articles that David Lawrence has written, including the entire body of articles published by Radio and Records when he was the Internet Music columnist there during the heyday of the original Napster. Click on any of the links below to read the articles as published.

Most recent articles

A Sideways Glance at Podcasting

Drinking the BigChampagne-Flavored KoolAid

Bursting BigChampagne's Bubble

LABELS PREPARE FOR DIGITAL WAR

NETHERLANDS A P2P HAVEN? NOT A CHANCE

IT'S NOT WHAT IP THIEVES WANT TO HEAR

David On TechTV On Ethics

Janis Ian Groks The Net

Fair Use?

The Net as Variety

Flying in the Face of CARP

Berman Delivers

The Greaseman, Version 4.0

Take Off The Brakes

Heading Underground or Up North

Spoofing By Law

CARP: Solomon's Wisdom

Virus Morphing

Replay Users Sue

Copeland: Death of the CD?

Earth to MP3

Napster Nearly Zeroes Out

Base the Fees on Revenues

Privacy? Good. Anonymity? Bad.

The Superstar Effect

Using P2P Legally

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Scream At 'Em

Will You Still Yahoo?

House Copies the Senate

Referrals from Morpheus

Radio Calling

Premature Eradication

Love Letters To Congress

Doing the Math

Now, About Those Patents...

Mazingo Delivers Rich Media, Money

AOL's Monster

Amazon for the Long Haul

Liquid Audio Out in the Cold?

It's Selection that Matters

Going Mobile

2001: Waiting for The Dough

Absolutist vs. Populist

Comfort and Excite-Ability

Abandoned Devices

EMI Emerges as Smartest Label

Apple's iPod Does it Right

ICQ vs. AIM vs. AIMster

A Modest MP3 Proposal

Amazing Webcaster is #1

The Internet As a Cassette Deck

Up To The Minute Bargains

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David's latest acting work/appearances

Heroes on NBC - 9/27, 10/13, 10/20, 11/24, 12/15

The Unit on CBS - 10/12

CSI on CBS - 12/11

FrankTV on TBS - 11/11

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MCM London - London, UK (2008.10.25)

NAB Europe - London, UK (2008.10.26-27)

The NoHo Show - webisode

Cynopsis Digital - show biz podcast (daily)

The Secrets of Screen Acting - acting podcast (daily)

My Name Is Wallace - film, in 108 film festivals

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After a 30 year career on radio in markets from New York to San Francisco to satellite and network, David H. Lawrence XVII decided to make a change. He hung up his headphones and retired from hosting 3 network/satellite radio shows to head to Los Angeles, to concentrate solely on acting in front of the camera.

This new phase of Lawrence's performance career seems to fit him like a glove.

The Cleveland native is seen on TBS' Frank TV, CBS' legendary CSI and military thriller The Unit, and his breakout role as one of the Villains, puppet master Eric Doyle on NBC's smash hit Heroes, has fans and the media buzzing.

As a new media expert, David Lawrence was heard nightly as the wacky, eclectic and highly opinionated host of The David Lawrence Show, and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence is deeply rooted in the music industry as well, and anchored The Net Music Countdown for almost a decade. These shows were heard on over 300 radio stations and both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Lawrence is at the forefront of the podcasting revolution, having delivered daily RealAudio and MP3 "podcasts" via email from early 1994. Lawrence counts over 350 Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients, either as a podcast talent, producer, designer or consultant. Each night, he voices over 25 daily podcast episodes for clients.

Lawrence appeared on radio for over 30 years as a top rated air personality on stations like WGN/Chicago, WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and was executive producer of the legendary radio comedy ensemble, the American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book exclusively for Macintosh users.

His is the voice of America Online's customer service lines, as well as the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems - he is one of the most often heard voices in the world, and is also a SAG and AFTRA actor, starring on television and in films, including the webisodic hit, Goodnight Burbank as Frank, the station manager.

When not acting, he helps other actors create their own voiceover career with his award winning Demos2GoGo voice demo service. He also teaches voicework workshops at various studios around Los Angeles.

His past theatre and voice work include originating the role of Charles Bukowski in Sacred Fools' LA's award-winning Bukowsical!, Potter in It's A Wonderful Life, the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and starred as Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa.

Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on G4, CNN, FOX, CBS, MS-NBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured tech expert on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. He has delivered keynote addresses, inservice teaching and has served as both moderator and panel member at conferences ranging from MacWorld, CES, FOSE and COMDEX to The Micropayment Conference, Gnomedex, the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo and the NAB. His dozens of award winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site.

Lili VonSchtupp* needed a fresh start. She moved to Washington DC and got her dream job. "I did affiliate relations for Online Tonight with David Lawrence. I slowly worked my way into the producer's chair by impressing David with my assets. (not those assets), my ability to make a CAT5 cable Ethernet cable, type (those of you in the chat room-shut up!) and work a phone system.

"I'm currently single, okay married to my job. I spend my evenings online with our listeners and I have no pets or children - that I know of."** You can read more about Lili at:

LiliVonSchtupp.com
*Okay, the name. Lili Von Schtupp comes from the mind of a brilliant man, Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles is one of my favorite movies...I'd tell you more but, "I'm tired." Thank you Madeline Kahn, you are missed. **Carol Liefer gets the credit for the "no kids, that I know of" line...credit where credit is due.