May 2009
1 post
Distribution … now
Author: John Borthwick http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2009/04/19/699/
In February 1948, Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to address hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens packed into Old Town Square. It was a crucial moment in Czech history - a fateful moment of the kind that occurs once or twice in a millennium.
Gottwald was...
March 2009
2 posts
Old Growth Media And The Future Of News
Author: Steven Johnson http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2009/03/the-following-is-a-speech-i-gave-yesterday-at-the-south-by-southwest-interactive-festival-in-austiniif-you-happened-to-being.html
The following is a speech I gave yesterday at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin.
I If you happened to be hanging out in
front of the old College Hill Bookstore in Providence...
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Author: Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of...
May 2007
1 post
The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free
Author: Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtml
The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free
from the have-fun-with-it dept
Ok. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve taken the long way around in going through my series of posts exploring the economics of goods when scarcity is removed. What I had thought would be a series of 5 or 6 posts, turned...