If you are completing your degree at university and going into the work force it can be a daunting challenge – if you choose to allow that. It is natural to feel some trepidation about going into a new and seemingly foreign environment. However, if you look at the data, which is always a good [...]
Here is a fascinating and quite insightful – and also by the way – hugely entertaining TED talk about the statistical analysis of what makes TED talks popular. While this is a lot of fun, there is actually an underlying message in all this: How you present your story has huge implications for what results [...]
Systems evolve over time. Look at the eco-system that drives most of the western world. It has been around for a relatively short time in historical terms. It is a sub-set of capitalism that may now be showing signs of weakness as a continuing driver for wealth creation. I’m talking about consumerism. Consumerism is assumed [...]
OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Why the Music Industry is Losing Money….. Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem. The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
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 [...]
An anecdotal statistical examination of music industry potential income with no file sharing. The music industry have managed to convince global Governments that they should have special protectionist legislation enacted. No-one has bothered to have a look at the logic behind their claims. Forget file sharing for a moment. The question should be, [...]
The Music Industry continuously claims that it has been harmed by file sharing. Yet it has also, failed to provide empirical evidence of the actual damage. Whilst we disagree with their modus operandi in criminalizing their consumers, we do find that there would appear to be a difference in the reality of music sales [...]
According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.” In Fiscal [...]
Part 1 Some time ago, my colleague Chris Gilbey and I held a discussion about how a cease fire could be brokered between the content Industry and the File sharing community. Chris explained to me that the nature of the problem was that there was no central organisation that the content industry could [...]