Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
I was reading an article today and it struck one of my chords. You know the one deep down that makes you sit up say, “Hey, that's right.” The article talked about the negligible value of news as a “pay now to read” item. Think about it. Apart from the rubbernecking value – [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]
The Berne Convention (of September 9, 1886) was formed for the purpose of protecting intellectual property. It has been quoted by most American Politicians for the last 10 years as the reason why America needs to get tough with the P2P community. Its interesting, that the United States only became a signatory to [...]
On Neil Diamonds Album, Hot August Night, he calls out… Hello out there Tree People….. His words – which impressed me over thirty years ago are obviously an acknowledgement by Neil, that even the non-paying tree people had a value, by adding to the carnival atmosphere of the concert and were therefore worthy of [...]
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet, blogs here about the threat to our freedom to use the Internet in its current free ranging form, unconstrained by corporate handcuffs here. It is an important read. Net neutrality is this: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and [...]
Stephen Roach, Chief Economist from Morgan Stanley writes again this week about the potential for the 'rebalancing' to be close…. This is based on the confluence of bond rates and oil prices, which taken together with the global reliance on the American consumer leads to some pretty sobering possibilities…. And as he says it isn't [...]