studying the media ecosystem
After sharing my pollyanna assessment of the Grokster ruling the other day, I thought I’d do something useful by revisiting the topic of digital rights management — that is, securing content against unauthorized copying while creating easy ways to enable authorized uses.
Think of DRM as an envelope sealed by (teenage magician) Harry Potter. Once Harry [...]
Today I’ve reached across The Pond — British slang for the Atlantic — to recapitulate the results of a survey suggesting that B2B websites are better advertising vehicles than print magazines. Among noteworthy findings, the survey found that business decision-makers spent “almost an hour per day online for work purposes,” and “more than half (54%) [...]
Many opinions will be written today, arguing that the Supreme Court decision on Grokster is good or bad. I see no point in another such outburst. The justices have said copyright holders can sue technology firms that aid and abet illegal file sharing. It is the law. But the law is not the future. And [...]
Call it wishful thinking or rank speculation, but there’s a buzz that Google is gearing up to create some sort of (micro?) payment system for content. If true, this could help solidify the commercial basis for citizen media, a movement that seems to be populated mainly by PWDJs — that is people with day [...]
My eyes popped as I read a scholarly essay, written by a British librarian, exploring what it means to have so many people, storing so much in the way of pictures, stories, data and memorabilia, in digital form. The essay focused on technical and legal issues. But this digital shoebox phenomenon has an implicit business [...]
I’m currently working with about two dozen high school and college students, in a program meant to give them a crash course in print and multimedia journalism — a gig that may be teaching me more than I’ve been able to pass on to my young charges. Last night, for instance, I sat in on [...]
On Monday I mentioned the Supernova conference in San Francisco and this morning I dropped in (virtually-speaking) to read about computer game-play both as a market (per capita spending of $108 annually) and as a social phenomenon (no surprise to this parent of two teens).
The per capita spending figure was offered by Stanford communications professor [...]
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