“D” was something to be feared when I was a lad; especially if it was written in red on the top right corner of a homework assignment when it came back from “marking”. The recent Joel Tenenbaum case in the USA may have backfired in a bigger way than any previous litigation activity undertaken [...]
Consumer incredibelus first appeared in the USA circa 1950's and managed to rapidly propogate it's commonly heard cry of hunger “I want, I need AND I’m stacked with plastic” (credit cards not “plastique”, C4) throughout the rest of the US satellite states. Australia through its Trade Treaties has become one of those satellite states [...]
The term “Dark Ages” was originally intended to denote the entire period between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance period. Our history is full of injustices that we look upon in our history books with some surprise – but how could the people have allowed that to happen? History lists [...]
The Swedish High Court has sentenced four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), to jail. On Twitter today Peter Sunde said: “Nothing will happen to TPB, this is just theatre for the media.” We got the news last night that we lost. It used to be only movies, now even verdicts are out before [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]
I haven't blogged in a fair while. Been busy doing things in the real world – mainly working on the house and the garden. Actually beyond the garden… I have been planting trees. I got an olive tree as a birthday present from my older daughter. So decided that one wasn't enough and went out [...]
digg and delicious are big ideas. Conde Nast bought Reddit today. Reddit is similar to digg. A site for voting or ranking media stories. Media today is all about connections, links, networks, what's hot, what not. Slowly,almost imperceptibly, this idea is permeating even the most sedate of publishers such as Conde Nast, Vanity Fair's parent.
Cap'n Blood 'ere. Today is International Talk like a Pirate Day. Seriously. Listen me hearty's, it started eleven years ago.Coupla guys did the deed. Then it picked up velocity on the internet more recently. Nerd joke really.But its been top story on digg all day. And we like this. Ahhhhhhh! “There's a young deck hand [...]
So here is where the top downloads of the week can be found… But the problem is that the chart is not a composite. Instead it is a library by library chart – Google, YouTube, Digg and VideoSift. One day perhaps!
Years ago, in the bubble, entrepreneurs would claim that a new business would change the way people lived. Shortly after, they would run out of money, the burn uncontrollable. This northern summer their predictions are coming true. MySpace usage through the roof, YouTube exploding, traditional media embracing digg and delicious style bookmarking and rating; television [...]