Tuesday, November 16, 2004
OhmyNews International: “A recent AFAICS Research report concludes that just four years from now e-books will be so well established that a typical price for mobile hardware will be less than $35. It maintains that areas where print and paper were once dominant now ‘look set to give way to digital data and the electronic [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
SEATTLE, Washington - ‘I thought I was helping the environment,’ bewailed Margaret Yee, a systems analyst with a lending institution, ‘I had no idea e-books were so damaging to the environment.’ Her feelings were echoed by many after a new study revealed that global warming sharply increased after the advent of the e-book. ‘We assumed [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The Jeff Kirvin Show: Episode 1, the First Episode
That’s right, I’ve started my own podcast. Point yer aggregator of choice (I prefer Doppler) to http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheJeffKirvinShow and have a listen.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill: “The Senate might vote on the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other products criminally liable for copyright infringement. The bill would also undo centuries of ‘fair use’ — the principle that gives Americans [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill: “The Senate might vote on the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other products criminally liable for copyright infringement. The bill would also undo centuries of ‘fair use’ — the principle that gives Americans [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
The New Yorker: Fact
Under copyright law, what matters is not that you copied someone else�s work. What matters is what you copied, and how much you copied. Intellectual-property doctrine isn�t a straightforward application of the ethical principle �Thou shalt not steal.� At its core is the notion that there are certain situations where you can [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
gapingvoid: seth on “branding is dead”: “Great thoughts on the same subject by the ever-wonderful Evelyn Rodriguez:
Another hint: Don’t look for books to portend the future of brands. Or the future of anything for that matter. The unfurling edge of the unfolding future is being revealed in the real world all [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
gapingvoid: why branding is dead: “Somebody sent me an e-mail asking why I thought ‘Branding is Dead’.
‘C’mon Hugh, it’s not necessarily true just because you and Doc Searls say it is.’
Well, I belive it to be true for a few reasons.
1. The term ‘Branding’ was pretty meaningless when I started in advertising in the early [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Wired 12.11: The Decline of Brands: “Even as companies have spent enormous amounts of time and energy introducing new brands and defending established ones, Americans have become less loyal. Consumer-goods markets used to be very stable. If you had a set of customers today, you could be pretty sure most of them would still be [...]
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
MPAA touts lawsuits, new P2P-fighting software | CNET News.com: “The lawsuits are being accompanied by a series of full-page newspaper advertisements, running in college publications and in mainstream titles including The Wall Street Journal.
One of these ads shows a finger clicking a mouse, alongside a headline emblazoned in red: ‘Is this you?’ That’s followed by [...]