The movement to mobile is incredible, isn’t it? I have been reading up on data relating to the growth of mobile over the last couple of days so that I can deliver a reasonably coherent lecture on a number of issues relating to mobile to first year communication students at UoW. At the same time [...]
I had dinner with Johnny H on Sunday night, and he was telling me that he was in the process of selling his Beemer because it was about to hit a bit inflection point in terms of depreciation – 150,000kms. My Prius had its 140,000km service on Tuesday (yesterday) so I thought maybe I should [...]
Amazing to think that it wasn't too long ago that EMI Records ruled the waves… This was the company that in the '60's brought us the Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Freddy And The Dreamers… Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, The Band… And then more recently artists such as [...]
We are living in a constantly changing world. More of those changes are taking place than we have ever experience before, and for some reason people are shocked by much of the change. But we shouldn't be. Much of what is taking place should not really be surprising, because it is largely predictable. All this [...]
This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
I was in Sydney yesterday for a meeting. In the car on the way up I had been listening to a BBC podcast and an author was interviewed about her new book (How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer). Pardon my ignorance but I had never [...]
I wonder what analysis is being done of the memes that are growing day by day on Face Book. There are quite a few companies that are using various automated tools, and some human ones, to understand both quantitative and qualitative references to brand names and products. And these show up last time I checked [...]
You have to be sorry for the people in the music industry. (Actually I am not sorry for them at all – they have had enough limos and lunches for one life time, so might be time to do an honest day's work!). Have a look at this story in Wired about the new round [...]
The Music Industry continuously claims that it has been harmed by file sharing. Yet it has also, failed to provide empirical evidence of the actual damage. Whilst we disagree with their modus operandi in criminalizing their consumers, we do find that there would appear to be a difference in the reality of music sales [...]
The fastest growing and most successful Companies in the World are the proof against an increased attention by anyone to the importance of Copyright and Trademark. For sometime I have been lobbying hard against Australia’s involvement in ACTA. Lobbying Koltai? Is that what you call it? Well yes. I don’t have access in [...]