I wrote a week ago about buying Belgian chocolate, and talking to the chocolatier and finding out about what goes into the average chocolate bar. We all know about the Chinese milk scandals involving replacing milk solids with melamine. If you go to your local supermarket and buy garlic, you will probably find that it [...]
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 [...]
There is the story of the little girl that asks her father if there are any other kind of fairy stories except for the ones that start, “Once upon a time…..” and her father replies, “Yes dear, there are also those that start with If I am elected….”. Well he said he [...]
Well lots really.We have blogged about the academic nature of the most popular files. We have written about the sociological and commercial benefits produced by many of the downloads Today, we thought we would give an insight into what little Johnny is doing on his PC.Loops.Loops, filters and effects are required by budding young mixmaster [...]
Following on from an article written by Chris Gilbey last week, Record Companies – The True Criminals wherein he pointed out that that the music industry was possibly one of the main causes of the lowering of community morals when the lyrics of some songs played over the radio were questionable when played in the [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]
Just got an email from Dan Pitt advising about Scan Scout getting funded. “Like its competitors, Cambridge, Mass.-based ScanScout's technology monitors videos for tags and metadata, but it also analyzes text, audio, and color patterns within the video to determine which ads would be best served with it. Publishers use a bit of ScanScout code [...]
A year and half ago Yahoo bought del.icio.us. Some people have raved about it. Other, like me, thought it useful. This week it got exponetially better. Now, delicious can operate in tandem with Firefox.. Download the plug in and all your browser bookmarks become delicious tags. Now work becomes doublely useful. Stuff once saved is [...]
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All these account for the expansion of this industry as the media, advertising agencies and companies vie for consumer’s attention. But what makes this market unique is the expansion of …
Chris Anderson has a new meme. Hot on the heels of The Long Tail, he is now talking about the Economics of Abundance. In reality it is pretty much an extension of the Long Tail hypothesis, but as a meme, it may catch on faster and build its own momentum as noted in this comment. [...]