Here is a prime example of a wrong approach to online discussion: StarForce copy protection system has been reported to cause customer’s DVD/CD writers to fail. Once the company gets criticism on the blogs they start sending out legal threats to kill the discussion. At the same time they offer money for customers who bring [...]

Freedom To Tinker has some interesting reading for folks who still think customers will want DRM on their CDs.
And then a more pragmatic concern of my own. Remember the time when you bought that really good record way back then? It may have been a while. For some there may not have been any CD [...]

Here is a fascinating project from coBRANDiT’s Owen Mack who interviewed attendees of the first Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association’s Word-of-Mouth Basic Training Conference. These raw 2 minute snippets are just magic in the way they connect the viewer with the people at the event. The talking points come across very efficiently and very convincing. Owen has [...]

Here’s some reading for you folks who think they have a good idea who ‘gamers’ are. This study has a lot of pretty numeric information in pdf format and a fairly broad scope of what games are. It also covers social situations games are played in and what role the games have in people’s lives.

Rich Ziade has posted on his blog at basement.org a list of examples of what you can use RSS feeds for. People are finding great uses for the content other people make available. This is the web 2.0 experience: our content remixed by people we don’t know. Business bloggers need to get this as well. [...]

With the success of video sales on iTunes and opening of Google Video the downloadable video is getting more focus as the next format people will start creating and sharing on the net. As with podcasting the video will also provide a greeat opportunity for media companies to blend in with their existing content and [...]

Here is an interesting article in USA Today about legal rights for taking photos in public places and then publishing them online. It turns out it is perfectly legal to moblog your hearts content in USA. Here’s the whole study in pdf format.
Now, has anyone read about legal issues in EU countries?

It’s the New Year and I wanted to share some of the interesting or at least entertaining things on the web past few days.

Why the media can’t get Wikipedia right by David Weinberger
Blogging doubled Stormhoek sales in less than twelve months (from gapingvoid)
Cory Doctorow examines the PlayStation Portable business model
Complete text of the January Being [...]