January 2009
21 posts
Obama & Arnie are right. Why can't we have high... →
Memo Google: Beta is dead →
Industry claim: 95% of music downloads are done... →
“If W. and Cheney preferred Fox News on the TVs in the White House because they...”
– Columnist Maureen Dowd
“K. C. ESTENSON, the new general manager of CNN.com, has a thought or two about...”
– CNN on reformating news for the digital generation as newspaper revenue collapses and television revenue stagnates, (NYT)
Interesting explanation why Indonesian ferries... →
More DRM coming: TV & movie companies are now as... →
“Newspapers that still deliver the goods—the Times, the Post, and the Journal at...”
– The debate about having an iTunes for newspapers - you pay for the content- continues on Slate but I’m not convinced (but would like a Kindle)
“Despite the proliferation and growth of new and alternative media, it is...”
– TV3 /TV council claims last year more people than ever before in NZ watched more TV than ever before. I haven’t noticed in my circle.
“I’m trying to think of an analogy of another industry that was abused by...”
– Rolling Stone writer’s new book on the death of the music industry
“The iPhone is revolutionising how society works with data while on the move: I...”
– An ex-Apple employee in the Guardian on what it’s like working at Apple
“The self-satisfaction bequeathed to Americans by their victory in the Cold War...”
– Andrew Leonard in Salon on the 08 meltdown
December 2008
73 posts
“Will we get the revenue that the music labels see is going to be fully replacing...”
– A Gartner analyst commenting on the news that CD sales fell by another 14% last year but digital sales increased by 27%
“Last week I did something that felt very 1990’s: I purchased a compact disc. The...”
– A NYTimes columnist reflects on how physical CDs and books are so 90s!