Like Michael Arrington, I now ban all Associated Press stories from all my blogs. That includes Tech Side Up, Inside Online Video, and The Mike Abundo Effect. I have absolutely no tolerance for copyright trolls who want to control their content beyond the extent allowed by law. Their right to protect their content ends where […]
Last year, Chris Anderson identified the Long Tail of human potential — our collective free time activities now being connected by the Internet and automatically coordinated into wonderfully useful collaborative projects.
Now Clay Shirky explains the rise of that potential in Gin, Television, and Social Surplus, his speech at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
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VoIP pioneer Jeff Pulver just resigned from Pulvermedia — that’s right, a media company that bears his very name.
That got me thinking about how personal media outlets keep increasing in value, even getting whole media companies built around them. Will we come to a point where personal blogs become so big that they become media […]
Oh, wow. I don’t want to portray Viacom as a caricature of all mass media evil, but it seems that’s all they want to be. At an antipiracy summit held by the US Chamber of Commerce, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman throws his support behind DRM and his opposition against net neutrality.
You will recall these guys […]
YouTube Tay Zonday Q&A Part 1
How do you choose a unique stage name in a search-driven media world? You Google it. How do you deal with major record labels? You do it on your own terms, not theirs. How do you license your work? You use a license that serves your specific interests. Why is […]
For nearly a decade, Weird Al Yankovic has successfully appealed to geek culture. Over the last year, that success has only exploded with his clueful use of the rising social media. His latest video Virus Alert features a game tie-in, a Gmail visual reference, and a nod to social media pioneer Newgrounds.
Weird Al demonstrates that […]
Online media and offline media are locked in a deadly war for scarce advertising dollars, a war only one can survive. Guess who’s winning.
According to TNS Media Intelligence, while offline ad spending is down in the first half of 2007, online ad spending is up. Way up. Note that TNS counts only online display ads, […]
The new media celebrities of the emerging Earth are created by audiences, not corporations. Dan Meth and Micah Frank sing an ode to those new celebrities: Internet People!
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The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. The Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC has more than tripled the royalty rates for webcasters and left unchanged they will kill Internet radio. These exorbitant rates go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). Without Congressional action the majority […]
Jason Calacanis chews out Sam Zell, the real estate guy who just spent billions to buy a bunch of debt-ridden newspapers.
Witness this quote:
* “If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?” Zell said during the question period after his speech. “Not very.”
Ummm…. exactly […]
Technology is a cult. Let\'s monetize cats!
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