Have you noticed that even as we see the power of digitization modifying business and, in my view driving productivity gains into the consumer marketplace, we also see regulation of the worst kind creeping into the system? Lets talk about productivity gains for a minute. The power of the smart phone. New apps are coming [...]
The Wu Tang Clan have just initiated what must be one of the most incredible marketing campaigns imaginable. They have released an album online that utilizes samples from dozens and dozens of Beatles records with them rapping over them. And it is great! You can listen to streams of the album here. Why is is [...]
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. [...]
Every time Governments legislate against or big business prosecutes against file sharing, internet users find a new way to circumvent and continue their activities. As there are more Internet Geeks than enforcement officials, this is hardly surprising. Sometime ago I predicted to Chris that if the “powers that be” continued raining down hellfire [...]
If you have read Part 1, downloaded and watched the movie – we are ready to explore part 2 if not – then you won’t understand half of the following; We now know about the economic hitmen which are basically the first line of defense – who go in to corrupt foreign government leaders. [...]
Residents of the Antipodies (that’s Australia for people in England – New Zealand for the Spanish and somewhere else for people in the USA) are used to being the forgotten race. Our claim to fame is the Kangaroo, the Kiwi and a cute little marsupial misnamed “Bear”, the Koala. OK, we also play a [...]
The statistics tell a different story. But they also show that there is a trend toward newer media: – Blogs are now used by 24% of Internet users, up from 13% in 2006 – Social networks are now used by 26% of Internet users, up from 17% in 2006 – Videocasts are now used by [...]
There was a popular word in the 70’s – antidisestablishmentarianism. It was used for two things – spelling tests and Time Magazine articles about spelling tests. It’s also a most excellent word for explaining the current occurrences worldwide. Newspapers are Closing due to lack of readership and advertising sales. Free to Air Broadcasters [...]
On the one hand it is easy to take pot shots at the lawyers who seem to be at the leading edge of some of the problems of the content industry. However, there are a whole lot of lawyers who really are pretty visionary and who want to create a resolution of what is taking [...]
Academics are really important to the commercial sector. Their visions for how the future is going to unfold drives inventions and innovation. A huge part of the R&D that finds its way into the general marketplace has its initial genesis in the labs of the universities around the world. Similarly the ideas that shape the [...]