Archive for October, 2006

The Troubled Print Media

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Here is a good essay written by a daily newspaper reader who recently canceled her subscription of 37 years. In her life the value of the newspaper has declined to a point where it no longer has a useful role. It is a great example of how a stale media became a victim of cultural [...]

On forthcoming YouTube lawsuits

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

There is one definite outcome from the YouTube acquisition: The collision of modern consumer media consumption and the content business models of the past century quickens. YouTube was a startup who would never been able to go to court for copyright infringements but Google could. Every media company has been rather waiting to see what [...]