Powerful structures for product-driven organisations
If Radiohead's intention in letting customers choose the price they pay for the band's new album, In Rainbows, was to light up the blogosphere, then it's certainly worked: here, here, here and of course, right here. They were actually beaten to the punch by the Charlatans, who're not messing around with making customers pay 1p for… Continue reading The other side of In Rainbows
Probably the most interesting debate at the moment in digital is about DRM. Digital Rights Management - the attempt to restrict and control the distribution of copyrighted digital (entertainment) content - has a sort of farsical quality. Typically DRM only really impacts on all the sorts of people who would never dream of copying… Continue reading Right on the money
It occurs to me that the discussion about intellectual property law which came up with the Digg debacle, is made more complex when you examine cases like that of David Hasselhoff. The story, briefly is that a video of a the Baywatch star out-of-control drunk and eating a hamburger off the floor has be posted… Continue reading Life’s a beach (the un-varnishing of David Hasselhoff)
Very interesting to read Antony's two articles about the happenings at Digg: Ey up, there's trouble at t'Digg... and Thoughts on the Great Digg Revolt of 2007. Digg, obviously, is a folksonomy or bookmarking-popularity site, and a large number of its users were pointing the way to a crack for encryption of high-def DVDs.… Continue reading I predict a riot
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