The Archives
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07.16.08What will the future of media look like?If you attended Ross Dawson's Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with: the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails everyone - PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting - is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and I guess that's good for people like me who can help with that) old media is changing and coming into the new world, although the old "pump it out and they will consume" attitude still persists closed formats and ...
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05.05.08Tuning outDigital music and digital rights management has been a bone of contention for several years now. The music labels continually cry foul as they allege that illegal music downloads are doing them irreparable harm while well-founded research seems to indicate the opposite. My personal opinion is that DRM, as envisaged by the labels and generally executed is broken - it stops me getting access to the music I want to listen to in the way I want. It's either restricted in place for listening (CD, limited number of computers, etc.) or restricted in format (tried getting iTunes bought music out of ...
