Monthly Archives: August 2009

Edge: ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE By Douglas Rushkoff

These are passages I want to cite from the full work by Rushkoff. the genuinely relevant question: whether the economic model, the game rules set in place half a millennium ago by kings with armies, can continue to hold back the genuine market activity of people enabled by computers. The decentralizing bias of new media …

August 14, 2009 – 5:05 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Economic forces, Innovator/Pirates, New business models, Open Source v. Proprietary | Comments (0)

12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive

12 Things Newspapers Should Do to Survive. Put web first and report from multiple platforms Nichify (go niche) Offer unique print content–”adding context to news that has been posted, shared and retweeted online.This also changes the roles of journalists quite a bit. Journalists be curators and contextualizers -currently newspapers own less than 1 percent of …

August 14, 2009 – 4:21 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models, New Roles | Comments (0)

Pirate Bay leads Swedish Viking charge on paid content – Telegraph

But these acronym rich, highly complex legal conflicts might prove to be irrelevant. Beyond the moral and legal struggle between Internet pirates and traditional content producers, the battle over paid online content – both inside and outside Sweden – has already been lost. Consumers simply aren’t paying for Internet music, movies or newspapers. For better …

August 13, 2009 – 3:21 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Innovator/Pirates, Trends | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

EU Gov’t Study: People Won’t Pay For Content; New Business Models Needed | Techdirt

EU Gov’t Study: People Won’t Pay For Content; New Business Models Needed | Techdirt.

August 13, 2009 – 12:42 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU

Image via Wikipedia P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures Says EU. The report finds, in a surprising contradiction to what industry executives have been spouting for ages, consumers’ behavior has nothing to do with the peer-to-peer technology (P2P) that has given rise to all-you-can-eat systems for free downloads of copyrighted content. In fact, …

August 13, 2009 – 12:33 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in About audiences, Economic forces, New business models, Trends | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

As Studios Cut Budgets, Indie Filmmakers Go Do-It-Yourself – NYTimes.com

Image via Wikipedia Here is the new way: filmmakers doing it themselves — paying for their own distribution, marketing films through social networking sites and Twitter blasts, putting their work up free on the Web to build a reputation, cozying up to concierges at luxury hotels in film festival cities to get them to whisper …

August 13, 2009 – 9:02 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Innovator/Pirates, New business models | Comments (0)

What is journalism good for in the 21st century

Image by Getty Images via Daylife To check this e-mail, we read the health care bill ourselves. Yes, it’s over 1,000 pages long, but that’s not as long as you might think: The document has large margins, so the text only takes up about one third of each page. We also read the bill’s legislative …

August 13, 2009 – 8:58 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, New Roles | Comments (0)

Legal Rebels – Who’s a Legal Rebel?

Legal Rebels – Who’s a Legal Rebel?.

August 11, 2009 – 1:51 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples | Comments (0)

Evaluating the New Models | Save the News

A number of alternative models for the news — recent experiments, long-standing ventures and ideas yet to move beyond the blueprint phase — hold clues for what new press institutions and new forms of journalism may look like. On the pages that follow, we briefly summarize some of the new ideas and specific policy proposals …

August 11, 2009 – 11:07 am | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in New business models | Comments (0)

RSS to PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org

RSS to PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org. About This is a free software project to help people create printable PDFs from content found on the web. It is a free alternative to HP’s Tabbloid service. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote alternative, non-corporate media.

August 10, 2009 – 5:26 pm | By Barbara Iverson | Posted in Examples, Open Source v. Proprietary | Tagged , | Comments (0)