Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy [...]
The new episode of House returned to Fox TV on Monday night at 8:00 PM after a two week hiatus in the US for the World Series. For us down-under (according to Nicky at Channel Ten Programming department,) we will have to wait for an as yet unspecified return date - Next year, but [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever noticed how the media is sometimes used as a weapon of mass destruction? Example: News Headline: Jews are Ruining the Economy! Result: Krystallnacht and 6 million Dead Jews. Rupert Murdoch wields News Limited as his private editorial rapier, slashing, trimming, opining and burning. Burning institutions, politicians, industrialists, bankers, entrepreneurs. [...]
People have talked about the move by Comrade Murdoch to make all the News properties follow a “pay to view” model. While this is something that is presumably designed to get the stock analysts feeling hot and sweaty about the potential for News to arrest its declining newspaper revenues, particularly from its online properties, I [...]
The Game of chess has more pawns than any other piece. This is so that pawns can be used as both the initial onslaught and the defensive line. Which, depends on the player, who’s role of course is to increase his military capacity and strategic advantage whilst at the same time attempting to decimate [...]
Well, at least in Australia. The Technology offered by some content distributors is making File Sharing look like the poor relative. Re-broadcasting video content is legal in the USA. Viewing rebroadcast sites in the USA is legal from Australia. The re-broadcasters are getting content faster than the file-sharing seeders. HOUSE M.D. House is Back, [...]
The problem with the Internet is that it’s full of lies and misdirection. Some of those lies emanate from Media barons, some from Politicians. Hell, some even come from Bloggers. But when the misdirection is uttered by a music artist who is worshipped by the young and naive, then I feel that I have to [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
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 – [...]