06.30.09
Posted in Media at 7:33 pm by Travis
Posner: Expand Copyright Law, Save Newspapers – Law Blog – WSJ.
I love the law just as much as any American, but someone needs to tell the Masters of the 20th Century that attacking technology with the law doe not work. Just ask the record industry. They have sued everybody and their grandmother, literally, and the sales have still fallen and the industry as a whole is in state of flux.
Technology often acts as a tsunami. Once it has passed you, few rarely survive without having to become something else. The wave has passed the newspaper industry which was their own fault. They dumbed down their content to a level that allowed technology to facilitate it better that millions of dollars of presses, staff and other equipment. The next step is to reinvent themselves, not use the law to make up for their ineptness. I think conservatives call that personal responsibility. You see when the rest of push back because companies take the jobs over seas and bankrupt whole towns, the corporate interest says that it is “market forces”, capitalism at work, survival of the fittest. When they fail to make the necessary changes to keep themselves viable in the market, they want a bail out, legal and/or financial. Technology is just as much as a market force as your competition hitting the market with a product that blows you out of the water. Either way, you man up and deal with it instead of wanting to take your ball and go home because you actually have to “use” that MBA you got.
If you bring copyright law into the mix, people will stop acquiring the news from the reliable sources period. Since a lot of it is skewed and corporatized anyway, will we really miss it? We may end of having to let journalist investigate and actually report the news in a clear, concise and honest way then newspapers can go back to making money the old fashion way, earning it. Thank you John Housman.
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06.12.09
Posted in personal tech at 5:15 pm by Travis
I had a tip that a Best Buy in my area would have some Palm Pre’s today. In their system, they were supposed to get some today, but when I went to check today the order had disappeared. I don’t know if Palm understands what is going on. All of the Pre fan boys have been on the net talking and tweeting about 50,000 Pre’s and now it’s up to 100,000, but many like myself don’t have one because there are none to have. It’s not about how many features at this point.
Everybody and their grandmother knows what the features are. We have seen them for the last freakin’ month on YouTube, MyTube, SheTube and HeTube, but they’re not enough phones. Who cares that you sold 100,00 when you only made 100,001? You don’t have any now, and come next Friday if you don’t have enough, you are going to have to give away a new car with every purchase to sell ‘em.
Next week Apple will release it’s iPhone 3Gs on the 19th, and I’ll bet there will be enough. You have to give it to Apple. They announce one week, and release the product the next week, not announce one month, release months later with hype out of this world and then don’t have enough and act like you meant it that way.
What good are all of the features if you can’t get one? What good is having a product if only a few customers and reviewers have them? There are those who will be more apt to buy a $99 iPhone without all the bells and whistles because its available. Here is another side to the issue. Those of us on Sprint who are upgrading to purchase a Pre have to upgrade our plan to accomodate the Pre. This means we have to time buying the unit at the end of the billing cycle, or we get hit up to twice our monthly bill. As it stands, if a truck load of Pre’s come in next week, I won’t be getting one because I am not going to pay that pro-rated fee along with my monthly bill. So attention Best Buy and Radio Shack just give mine to someone else. I’ll get one next month if Palm is still in business.
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