“Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine—too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate about price, copyright, ‘intellectual property’, the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better.” — Stewart Brand
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Although the article by Jarvis talks more about GoogleNews, the AP, and AFP, it it also true for blogging: “In this new world of distributed media, if you’re not aggregated, you’re nowhere.” Read more…
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It is reassuring that big bucks means upwards of $750,000-a-year instead of what people generally think, which is closer to $750-a-year. Thanks to Darren Rowse and Jason Calacanis and Paul Scrivens for their incidental advice and witness.
No Comments » Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Chris Abraham
No, not war on pornography, but war and pornography as the two biggest engines for technological and logistical innovation the world has ever seen. Read more…
No Comments » Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Chris Abraham
I am stuck in the echo chamber. I may be a metablogger. I might blog about blogging. I am even probably postmodern. But, am I anal? You got me, Pete Shinbach by way of PR Opinions. To quote Derrida, “there is nothing beyond the blog.”
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