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January 16, 2005
Look Out Yahoo!
Marty Schwimmer wants Bloglines to stop indexing his content.
In Mr. Schwimmer's view,
"Bloglines' reproduction of my site is a commercial derivative work."
Russell brings up a great point, as have quite a few others. Instead of adding my thoughts, I figured I'd expand on one of Russell's points and use this opportunity to warn Yahoo (and Southwest Airlines!) Based on the screen shot below, Marty might be sending you a cease-and-desist letter at any moment. (Google, sorry didn't have time to make a screen shot for you guys)
Posted by davehod at 03:34 PM | Comments (0)
January 15, 2005
7 Seconds - New Disc
I've been listening to an advance of the new 7 Seconds disc "Take it Back, Take it On, Take it Over" and I wholeheartedly agree with the reviews I've been reading -- a great disc, a great way to start the year. My favorite disc since "Out the Shizzy".
One song in particular sums up the whole disc - "Where's the Danger". Kevin discusses his relevancy in the post-modern world as a post-twentysomething punk. I could listen to that song all day (in fact, I put it on repeat for about 20 times while I wrote this :-))
I was fortunate enough to meet Kevin Seconds outside a show in San Jose way back when (Soulforce Revolution tour). He's a great guy; can't wait for the tour dates!
Posted by davehod at 10:51 PM | Comments (0)
January 06, 2005
A&E/National Geographic Join the Shift
Announced at CES: A&E and National Geographic are joining the Shift and working with Akimbo to distribute their content over the Net. This one has to have the cable/broadcast folks worried. (Although maybe the cable guys are ok w/it, as a lot of consumers of the service will get their bandwidth via cable)
How much longer until I can get the Amazing Race this way Mr. Moonves?
Jeff Jarvis has some interesting comments here
Posted by davehod at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)
January 03, 2005
Bit Torrent/Time-shift media commentary
Jeremy has some interesting thoughts about the future of "Television 2.0" and BitTorrent
Reminds me of the guy from Australia. Hard drives are going to be able to store more and more content (and they are going to get smaller and smaller)
This stuff reminds me of all the Harvard Business Cases I read (ad nauseum) in grad school. Sea-change occurs in an industry. Current industry leaders are unable/unwilling to change, for fear of canabalizing existing products/channels. Companies unburdened by the suddenly "old" way of thinking move into the lead. Most of the new "dinosaurs" fade away and die.
In the end, that is how this one is going to go also. Time-shifted media will come to the fore. It is simply a more convenient mechanism for consumers.
Posted by davehod at 10:51 PM | Comments (0)