Blogger
I’m getting excited about the implications of the google purchase of blogger. Corporate internal blogs might be a way to utilize internal knowledge, and the addition of a google appliance makes the...
View ArticleDRM AS A DIRTY WORD
It’s funny how the term has become a rallying cry against copyright online: I was reading about the failure of BuyMusic.com vs iTunes. Check this out: Stephen Van Esch writes:BuyMusic’s DRM (digital...
View ArticleFEE VERSUS FREE
It seemed appropriate to start this commentary with a discussion of the running debate between fee vs free. It’s not worth getting dragged into a discussion of which is better, or even what “free” is,...
View ArticleAstounding
Thursday, October 30, 2003 Amazon is obviously digitizing the entire contents of their books. I have an image of this I’ll dig up This must be putting a lot of pressure on the publishers to get their...
View ArticleOuch Again
Sunday, December 14, 2003 Not surprising, but nevertheless not a good thing: Canada is going to start charging a surtax for mp3 players: “The cost of an MP3 player will increase in Canada after the...
View ArticleDMP Thoughts
I was at the Digital Media Project in LA, which I found very interesting and informative. I won’t describe it – there is lots of information on it at the DMP website. (ed note. not anymore!) It seems...
View ArticleDRM Landscape
November 27, 2005 Lately, I’ve been talking with a technology company has me thinking about just who makes up the DRM landscape. There are three value chain participants that are impacted by DRM...
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