Prologue: (purloined from http://www.fourthturning.com/html/boom_generation.html) The Boom Generation (Prophet, born 1943-1960) basked as children in Dr. Spock permissiveness, suburban conformism, Sputnik-era schooling, Beaver Cleaver friendliness, and Father Knows Best family order. From the Summer of Love to the Days of Rage, they came of age rebelling against the worldly blueprints of their parents. As their [...]
Can’t be done say the experts. Well what if a company was going to build out a 1 GB per second internet backbone that would allow you to do so? Google yesterday announced their intention to do just that. On their Blog at Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network they [...]
I received a letter today from Optus with my comments in parentheses and italics. Here is what it said: Dear Valued Customer (What is the problem here? Optus can address the envelope to me personally, but can't invest in a data base that personalizes the letter itself? What sort of technology company is this?) Firstly [...]
This is Part II in a series of articles entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment In yesterdays article, I commented that : At Perceptric, we have commenced an attempt at applying our P2P Value method against the relatively new science of hedonic valuation. Early results have enabled us to see patterns that are [...]
It would be hard for anyone who has a serious (or comedic for that matter) bone in his body to allow the changes to the Liberal Party in Australia to pass by without comment… Today the Libs (who, if you are reading this in another part of the world, are akin to the British Conservatives [...]
Those of you who live in the city and are able to get broadband via cable or via ADSL with all you can eat plans…. you don't know how lucky you are! Here in the Australian bush – not that where I live is bush really – its just a place where Telstra was stingy [...]
While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements. But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]
I think we are all agreed that users will share music, TV programs and movies whether it is permitted or not. Users have become accustomed over the last ten years in accepting the referral model of their internet peers as to what is hot and what is not. This has resulted in a [...]
Media barons and some of the anointed (think glitterati, freemasons or whichever other conspiracy theory you subscribe to this week); spend a lot of time gnashing teeth these days…. In the inimitable voice of Peter Sellers, “ Oh dearie dearie me, we have let de cat out of de bag”, – how the hell [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]