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Create Digital Music: Record Sales Up — No, Really, Actual Records

Vinyl LPs appear to be the only segment of the physical music business that is growing. I suspect music fans prefer the tactility and size of the LP format.

vinyl technology music business
may 2008 by McChris

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allanti.com: Where was my bike made?

Here's an interesting rundown of where bicycle frames are manufactured. I knew Giant produced frames for Schwinn and others in Taiwan, but I didn't realize they're now the largest (legit) bicycle maker. I still don't know if my "Made in the USA" Cannondal

cycling business history offshoring
march 2008 by McChris

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Cash Me Out - Forbes.com

Daniel Lyons argues that Sun's acquisition of MySQL represents "The end of open source as counterculture."

MySQL opensource business
february 2008 by McChris

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Threat Level: Motivational Manager Waterboarded Employee to Spur Sales, Suit Alleges

This sounds like working at Dell.

business cruel
february 2008 by McChris

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State of the Art: Break it like a Polaroid picture

Polaroid has announced plans to shutter it's remaining instant-film plants in March, after experiencing heavy losses against digital photography.

photography end-of-life oldmedia business
february 2008 by McChris

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Wired: Flickr Rebellion Brews at Specter of M$ Acquisition

It didn't dawn on me that Microsoft would own Flickr and del.icio.us if it suceeds in buying Yahoo, but it's a little spooky to me. I'm kind of over Flickr, but clearly I have a lot invested in del.icio.us.

business Microsoft del.icio.us Flickr
february 2008 by McChris

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5ives: Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!

"following upgrade to Vista, clicking del.icio.us links now requires 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB drive space (per link)"

Microsoft Flickr del.icio.us business
february 2008 by McChris

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Network World: Sun’s bold MySQL buy

This story describes Sun's strategy in buying the open-source database vendor. These databases are better suited for Web applications than datacenter products from Oracle and IBM.

database MySQL business politicaleconomy
january 2008 by McChris

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Multichannel News: Comcast Founder To Be Paid After Death

"Comcast will pay the beneficiary of co-founder Ralph J. Roberts an amount equal to his 2007 base salary for five years after his death, whenever that occurs, the company said in a Dec. 28 securities filing."

creepy cable TV business
january 2008 by McChris

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How Experts Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Schwinn

This wiki site is for a business book about the social facets of expertise and how expertise can lead to poor consequences.

business wiki technology cycling
december 2007 by McChris

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When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

This impassioned article argues that the record industry alienated fans in copyright wars and deserves to go out of business.

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TLF: What EarthLink’s muni wi-fi announcement tells us

The Philadelphia municipal wi-fi project always struck me as silly, and now it seems to have folded. This post describes some of the reasons it failed.

Philadelphia wifi utilities business
november 2007 by McChris

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The Sound of Crickets Chirping: Problems for Texas Startups

Sean McCullough suggests that because Austin Ventures is the only major VC organization in Texas, smaller and more interesting startups are stymied in Austin and Texas.

austin texas business telecom
october 2007 by McChris

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Magazine covers: good contrarian indicators

Lunch over IP points to research that suggests companies are peaking when they appear on the covers of business magazines.

journalism business magazine
may 2007 by McChris

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fortuitous

Matt Haughey's new blog has business information for Webby freelancers and entrepreneurs. I dig the fixed-gradient thing at the bottom.

blog business Web2.0
may 2007 by McChris

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Portfolio.com: Behind the Green Doerr

Silicon Valley venture capitalists like John Doerr believe green technologies like alternative energy will see a new investment bubble and are pressuring government for favorable legislation and subsidies.

business environmentalism energy venturecapital
april 2007 by McChris

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Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

Don't be evil, Google!

google business advertising privacy
april 2007 by McChris

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Valleywag: The grotesque $1 salary

Valleywag points out how one-dollar salaries paid to the likes of Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt serve as a tax dodge for their real compensation. Since stock options are treated as capital gains, tech execs pay less than half the income tax rate.

business taxation
april 2007 by McChris

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Daring Fireball: EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music

John Gruber makes some insightful remarks on the new Apple-EMI partnership to sell DRM-free music at a premium.

Apple business music mp3 DRM
april 2007 by McChris

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Monocle: Interview with Lego CEO

In this video interview Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp describes the challenges facing toy manufacturers today.

video business interview toys Lego
february 2007 by McChris

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Pitchfork: R.I.P. Arthur Magazine: 2002-2007

It's a pity this magazine is folding, but I always wondered how the big-budget free publication stayed afloat.

magazine business indierock
february 2007 by McChris

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Valleywag: Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?

Flickr seemed to be endangered when Yahoo! announced it's re-org, but now it looks like Yahoo! Photos will be consolidated into Flickr.

Flickr business Web2.0
february 2007 by McChris

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Wikipedia (A)

Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia

wikipedia business wiki Web2.0
february 2007 by McChris

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Ars Technica: Google announces overhaul of Google Video strategy

Google Video will become a search engine for video content online, which is what I thought its mission was in the first place.

TVontheWeb google YouTube business
january 2007 by McChris

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Microsoft's evolution, in keywords

The history of Microsoft is visualized here as a series of tag clouds.

Microsoft history business visualization information_design
january 2007 by McChris

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Foreign Policy: Think Again: Rupert Murdoch

This article argues that Murdoch and News Corp. aren't as powerful as the highly capitalized tech titans.

business media myspace
january 2007 by McChris

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Reuters: User-generated Content Good for Old Media

"Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says."

Web2.0 UGC media business
january 2007 by McChris

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CNET: IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group

This story from last week doesn't provide many details about the unit which will deal with 3D interfaces in and outside Second Life.

gaming SecondLife business virtual_world
december 2006 by McChris

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Public Beta

This is interesting, but it's more of a band-aid than an act of goodwill. Adobe is allowing users to download a beta of the next-generation version while they bring the Intel-native OS X version to market.

photoshop design OSX business
december 2006 by McChris

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TV Networks YouTube Clone Has Bigger Problems Than Antitrust Concerns

Fox, Viacom, and others are thinking about creating a YouTube clone for hosting clips from their properties. Similar experiments with cable led to anti-trust rulings, but TechDirt believes that market forces would encumber this more.

TVontheWeb anti-trust business TV cable
december 2006 by McChris

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InformationWeek Weblog: Ban The Analysts! Or Not?

A reporter from the venerable trade magazine explains her position on the analyst issue. I tend to agree that some analysts are beholden to a particular platform, while others will entertainingly talk trash about a company or product.

journalism ethics business
december 2006 by McChris

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NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories

This Register story is fairly interesting - I don't think it should be a surprise that many analyst firms are shills for the companies they discuss, but the NYTimes probably should have a different set of standards than the trades.

journalism ethics business
december 2006 by McChris

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Marketers find a new place to set up shop: Virtual reality

USA Today story explores advertisers increasing interest in the Second Life virtual world. I want to put scarequotes around "virtual world."

gaming advertising marketing business virtual_world SecondLife
december 2006 by McChris

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.net magazine: Caterina Fake

In this interview, the Flickr co-founder discusses her strategy for building an online community.

Flickr interview Web2.0 design business
december 2006 by McChris

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TechDirt: Is News Corp. Looking To Sell MySpace?

This strikes me as strange. Although Murdoch & Co. have stumbled with the site, it seems like the way to bootstrap an online presence for Fox and other News Corp. properties.

myspace yasns business
november 2006 by McChris

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Mark Cuban: Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal

Mark Cuban posts an anonymous email about an interesting arrangement in the YouTube acquisition. Google set aside $500 million of the $1.65 billion purchase price to deal with IP litigation.

YouTube TVontheWeb copyright google business
november 2006 by McChris

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Cinematical: Time for Mike Judge to Go Indie

Jette discusses the local success of Mike Judge's film Idiocracy after its distribution was quashed by FOX.

film business distribution stupid
october 2006 by McChris

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FT.com: Congress must keep broadband competition alive

Larry Lessig advocates network neutrality in this editorial.

networkneutrality business economics politicaleconomy
october 2006 by McChris

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PC World's Techlog A Brief History of Computers, As Seen in Old TV Ads

PC World rounds up old TV ads on YouTube. Apparently the dude-you're-getting-a-Dell are nowhere to be found.

advertising business history TV TVontheWeb Dell Apple
october 2006 by McChris

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NYTimes: Wallflower at the Web Party

Long NYTimes story about the failure of Friendster and the runaway success of MySpace. I'm wondering if wearing my Friendster shirt will now be read ironically.

yasns business myspace
october 2006 by McChris

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Bokardo: YouTube and the Importance of Top-of-Mind

Joshua Porter of Bokardo argues that the Google/YouTube deal was mostly about branding and mindshare, rather than technology or business models.

TVontheWeb google business
october 2006 by McChris

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Blog Maverick: I still think Google is crazy

Mark Cuban was skeptical about the rumors that Google would buy YouTube. Now that the acquisition has been announced, he's stil wondering if intellectual property issues will bring the project down.

TVontheWeb Web2.0 google copyright intellectualproperty business
october 2006 by McChris

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YouTube, in a New Bubble

Dan Gillmor suggests Google's purchase of YouTube indicates the technology industry – or at least the online consumer space – is in a bubble once again.

TVontheWeb google business Web2.0
october 2006 by McChris

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The Guardian : Tesco takes on might of Microsoft with cheap own-brand software

The British supermarket chain is planning to sell an office suite for casual users.

business
october 2006 by McChris

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Central Scrutinizer: “Web 2.0 ‘exit strategy’” badges
Web2.0 business design humor
october 2006 by McChris

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Suspending Officials? A business lesson

Mark Cuban sounds off on the Pac-10 ref's bad instant-replay call in the Oklahoma/Oregon game. He blames the referees' managers rather than the refs themselves.

sports TV football oklahoma business
september 2006 by McChris

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TIME.com: Why the Future of Television is Lost

James Poniewozik credits online communities and technology like DVRs and streaming episodes for the commercial success of "Lost."

TV TVontheWeb audience business fandom
september 2006 by McChris

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It all changed: a breakdown by industry and how to win

Steve Safran of Lost Remote discusses the impact the convergence of broadcast media and the web will have on various media industry segments.

TVontheWeb broadcast business media TV radio
september 2006 by McChris

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Who Is Jonathan Ive?

Business Week profile of Apple's lead product designer.

design Apple business
september 2006 by McChris

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Clear Channel asks for changes in station ownership rules

The conglomerate wants to own up to twelve stations in the largest US markets, citing competition from sattelite radio and digital music players. I'm not sure this radio ownership issue even matters any more.

radio FCC publicpolicy media business
september 2006 by McChris

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The Register: Google developing eavesdropping software

Via Slashdot, this system would use internal PC microphones to monitor the media diets of users. When Nielsen and Arbitron roll out their portable "People Meters" a lot of content will be watermarked for data collection like this.

surveillance google privacy advertising audience business
september 2006 by McChris

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The Register: Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm
Web2.0 hype news business semantic_web
september 2006 by McChris

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Language Log: Relatable

Language Log examines the TV-industry jargon word "relatable." If audiences can connect with characters in a show it's "relatable." I'm not sure if there's such a thing as passive-voice thought, but if there is, "relatable" would be an example.

TV audience language reception business
august 2006 by McChris

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Ars Technica: Intel ends an era with Xeon "Tulsa"

I'm tickled the new Xeons were named after my hometown. I want a Mac Pro Quad-Tulsa workstation.

tulsa processor business
august 2006 by McChris

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Time Warner: The Frankenstein of Online Video

According to Om Malik, the former AOL Time Warner has no fewer than six deals with online video services, undermining synergy that could come out out the media conglomerate.

TVontheWeb synergy business
august 2006 by McChris

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Why is Congress considering such anti-consumer telecom bills?

This article details some of the issues at stake for the telecom companies with the new round of regulation in Congress. I was not aware of the issues surrounding the Universal Service Fund.

telecom networkneutrality publicpolicy astroturf business
july 2006 by McChris

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Socialtext Open

Socialtext (not to be confused with the infamous theory journal of the same name) has released an open-source version of their enterprise wiki product. I wondered when this would happen.

wiki opensource business Web2.0
july 2006 by McChris

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PowerPoint Operators for Corporate Events

I want to say this looks like the worst job ever, and then I remember the people who clean up after murders or sanitize highway rest stops. Still, I wouldn't want to work for this guy.

craigslist business PowerPoint labor
july 2006 by McChris

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The Register: AMD, ATI and the GPU

Here's an excellent story relating the importance of AMD's acquisition of graphics-chip vendor ATI. While I don't doubt graphics processing will eventually move onto the CPU, it seems like the more immediate impact will be on motherboard chipsets.

business
july 2006 by McChris

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TechCrunch party list starts mayhem!

A Wiki is probably not the best way to manage a guest list for the hottest nerd party of the year.

wiki geek contest business stupid
july 2006 by McChris

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Tuned In: Fake-News Synergy? You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Viacom maybe interested in purchasing The Onion to complement The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report.

business TV newspaper synergy humor
july 2006 by McChris

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"in ten years Radiohead will occupy the same place in history as Marillion"

Long, insightful blog post about the eroding distinction between indie record production and major labels. I recently saw a collectors edition of one of Radiohead's later albums in the clearance bin at Waterloo, provoking a bit of schadenfreude.

indie music co-optation longtail business
july 2006 by McChris

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Chinese Company Intends to Build MG’s in Oklahoma - New York Times

I'm not sure it bodes well that a Chinese business is outsourcing manufacturing to my home state. The relaunced MGs will be built in Ardmore, which is about halfway between Dallas and OKC.

business oklahoma China globalization labor transportation
july 2006 by McChris

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Business Reply

"This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company."

comics business weird slack
july 2006 by McChris

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Condé Nast Buys Wired News for $25 Mil.

It struck me as goofy when Wired News was spun off from the magazine. I hope the two outlets develop a shared editorial direction.

media magazine business
july 2006 by McChris

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Rocketboom Drama::Is Amanda Congdon Replaceable?

More analysis of the Rocketboom dustup. Although I only watched the vlog a few times, this is pretty interesting.

TVontheWeb business blog hype
july 2006 by McChris

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Guardian Interview: Chris DeWolfe cofounder of MySpace

Provides background on DeWolfe and the social networking portal in a non-paranoid way.

myspace yasns youth business
july 2006 by McChris

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Database of American Proprietary Eponyms

Via Cory Arcangel, a list of service marks that have become generic signifiers. Be sure to read the disclaimer at the bottom.

advertising trademark commodification business
june 2006 by McChris

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Next-gen RFID tools expand the market

Via Bruce Sterling: "New standards, prohibitive costs, and the lack of upper-level business context left most companies tuned out to this much-ballyhooed technology."

rfid business buzzword
june 2006 by McChris

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MySpace exploration is marketer's dream

This Hollywood Reporter story discusses how studios are using MySpace to promote their pictures. I'm often a little surprised to see non-Fox productions promoted, but I suppose money swears for the folks at MySpace.

myspace yasns film advertising business
june 2006 by McChris

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WBHM: Technology and Trademarks

Public radio story that explains the threat of trademark dilution to businesses and efforts to expand trademark law to journalists and ordinary citizens.

business law intellectualproperty trademark
may 2006 by McChris

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What price Macintosh?

An Ars Technica story on an analyst report confirms what I've suspected for years. Apple hardware (particularly laptops) is only marginally more expensive than equivalent Windows hardware. A ten-percent premium - if that - is worth it for OS X.

business OSX
may 2006 by McChris

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Long Tail evidence from Safari and Google Book Search

Tim O'Reilly discusses how user behavior follows a power distribution on online book sites like Google Books and O'Reilly's Safari service. On Safari, the curve actually rises at the end, with users hunting down out-of-print computer books.

business google longtail books
may 2006 by McChris

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Warner Bros. to sell movies, TV shows via BitTorrent

Wow, Warner Bros. is coming out with all kinds of surprising news.

business TVontheWeb TV film file-sharing
may 2006 by McChris

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'Two and a Half Men' = One new syndication model

This is probably only interesting to people who study TV, but Warner Bros. is offering stations who buy syndicated reruns of "Two and a Half Men" the opportunity to stream the show online - if Warners gets half the online ad revenue.

broadcast business advertising TVontheWeb
may 2006 by McChris

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