Kickstarter for Retailers? “Ashes” Includes Comic Stores in Crowdfunding Offering. Comics via a pre-paid model.
Taken together, though, there is a concern emerging over the TV interests of little children, those viewers whose leisure habits the boob tube has long helped mold. Or at least it did before technology of the future arrived to upset the practices of the past. Unlike their parents and grandparents, kids today have a lot …
The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking | TorrentFreak. copyright law is public law—enacted by Congress, enforced where appropriate by the President, and interpreted and applied by the courts—there is plenty of opportunity to monitor the effects of the law and to debate the ways in which it should be reformed. Increasingly, however, copyright law is being …
MAKE | How Open Source Hardware is Kick-Starting Kickstarter!. I’m seeing it more and more here on MAKE. Have a clever idea? Are you talented and skilled enough to make it happen? You can submit your project to Kickstarter, and if it passes their guidelines (this is where their editorial comes in), you can …
The case for piracy – Blog – ABC Technology and Games Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Nowadays, copyright barely resembles what it was originally designed for i.e. to protect both parties: inventors and content creators on the one side and the public on the other. Corporate America and government compliance have written out public interests in many …
Media companies have three ways to innovate, each with its own barriers | Poynter.. This addresses how MSM companies have chosen to innovate, and some projects are more successful than others. It covers some of the new aggregators like Ongo, which put out online views of news that work well on tablets and mobiles, but …
So when does academic publishing get disrupted? — Tech News and Analysis.
Image via CrunchBase Summify – The newsonomics of Netflix and the digital shift. Netflix’s experience is early, and directional for news and consumer publishers. What Reed Hastings is essentially saying is that once a company has figured out its route to digital business model success, it doesn’t want to dally, straddling too long the old …
From this thread: Phone hacking row shows News Corp is no ordinary news company | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Jay Rosen: Rupert Murdoch’s news organisations are not in the news business. What they crave is influence. This is right on target: John McQuaid – What’s interesting here is the anachronistic/dynastic corporate structure, which clashes …
Phone hacking row shows News Corp is no ordinary news company | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk. Jay Rosen asks “ultimate causes: what is it about News Corp that has produced these events?” and then has Carl Bernstein weigh in, as well as others. Everyone says it it the organizational culture that made it this …