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The music industry has been on along honeymoon with iTunes and copyright protection on online music sales. Now that its over record labels are beginning to have second thoughts because iTunes has become a powerhouse with no other alternatives.
Copyright protection has allowed iTunes to keep its music on the iPod and off of other MP3 players. This has allowed Steve Jobs to sink his vampire teeth into music sales, but record labels haven't completely given up yet. Their white knight comes in the form of Amazon's MP3 store which has become the No. 2 in online music sales.
Amazon offers only music thats not copyright protected allowing a user to uses their music on a iPod or Zune or any other MP3 player. Record labels originally wanted the security of having copyright protection, but now in hind sight it has cost them dearly.
There are still fears that piracy might begin to creep back into the lime-light again and become and issue. But the only other option they have is to wear a latex gimp suit while being handcuffed by Steve Jobs...I'd go with the pirates.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Makeovers and Makeunders with the Politico and the Post
Politico.com has recently gone under the knife in order to become more appealing to its browsers. The new design is more elegant and easier to navigate according to an article written by Megan Garber of the Kicker.
The piece is titled Nip/Tuck: The Political Journalism Edition which compared both the new Politico and the Post to Micheal and LaToya Jackson in their quest to achieve likeness via major cosmetic change.
Politico's change was need in a world where looks are everything and making a moving to change or redesign a website can be risky because many online users are fickle. It would be nice though to see more variation between different websites.
It would be nice to see more of a variety in a sea of tuna on the internet, so, that definitely leaves the market open for someone to exploit.
The piece is titled Nip/Tuck: The Political Journalism Edition which compared both the new Politico and the Post to Micheal and LaToya Jackson in their quest to achieve likeness via major cosmetic change.
Politico's change was need in a world where looks are everything and making a moving to change or redesign a website can be risky because many online users are fickle. It would be nice though to see more variation between different websites.
It would be nice to see more of a variety in a sea of tuna on the internet, so, that definitely leaves the market open for someone to exploit.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Blogging and Group Therapy
Blogging is usually never involved in the same sentence as group therapy, but recent evidence in two recent studies has found a link between both of them.
The studies was carried out by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia and research was conducted by James Baker and Professor Susan Moore.
Their finding for the studies showed that bloggers compared to non-bloggers feel more connected to others within their social networks, and they also share more connections with like minded people.
This sounded to me that it had many of the same undertones of group therapy in sharing personal problems with like minded people that help support each other through positive reinforcement.
The study was conducted by personally messaging MySpace users and directing them to an online questionnaire.
Later, after they tallied all the results and consalidated their findings they published them in the journal CyberPsychology and Behaviour. ABC broke the news to the rest of the world with this article.
The studies was carried out by Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia and research was conducted by James Baker and Professor Susan Moore.
Their finding for the studies showed that bloggers compared to non-bloggers feel more connected to others within their social networks, and they also share more connections with like minded people.
This sounded to me that it had many of the same undertones of group therapy in sharing personal problems with like minded people that help support each other through positive reinforcement.
The study was conducted by personally messaging MySpace users and directing them to an online questionnaire.
Later, after they tallied all the results and consalidated their findings they published them in the journal CyberPsychology and Behaviour. ABC broke the news to the rest of the world with this article.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
BBC learns Arabic...
The BBC has just announced plans to produce a new television station geared specifically for the Arab world; form a piece done by the NY Times. The BBC thinks that it can deliver a better product then both government and independently fund news organizations that already exist in the Middle East.
Their belief is that the current regional stations that exist now are slanted in one or the other direction. The examples in the article were Al Hurra, France 24 Arabic which are both government funded by the United States and France, Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya are both independent stations that originated form the Middle East.
The BBC believes it has a leg up on both sides because they haven an "international prospective" that is suppose to be less bias. Who knows whether that statement has any truth to it, but the BBC is the producer of the Discovery Channel which has received high marks for its programing.
How will the residents of Middle Eastern countries respond is the million dollar question. The UK has been involved with fighting the war on terrorism in both Iraq and Afghanistan making them not the most popular in that part of the world.
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