AOL buys into homegrown media: “You can’t really put figures on this,” one executive told The Register, “but we think we have 78 per cent of the libertarian news blogs, 91 per cent of the ClueTrain Manifesto fan sites, and 59 per cent of all blogging female arts graduates, many of whom are Virgos,” he said.
MJ Milloy
blogs a big problem from the independent media world: Never let the truth get in the way of predictable propaganda. Propaganda comes from both sides. It doesn’t work well in either case.
I wonder if
Eisner (and his ilk) really expect anyone to take their opinions seriously? Eisner’s FT editorial today was both intellectually lazy and, worse, a very boring read. I call bullshit. Again.
Dan Gillmor
: “I’m not a thief. I’m a customer. When you treat me like a thief, I won’t be your customer.”
Anyone still think the CDA was the worst part of the Telecommunications Reform Act? Hint: it was a smokescreen to deflect criticism and protest over everything else in the law, which of course was signed in 1996.
The Hollywood-Washington axis
is really undergoing a serious period of crisis. Not due to stuff like Napster and such – due to the seeming incompetence of the “entertainment” companies and the politicians in their pocket. Napster was the best thing that could have happened to the music industry. It should have been a cash cow! Anyhow the whole gang has just taken another step towards oblivion with Fritz Hollings’ renamed SSSCA: Anti-Copy Bill Hits DC.
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