I’m generally sympathetic to Chris Anderson’s argument that the Internet should shift the focus of the media business away from the fat head of blockbusters and toward the long tail of niche content. But it sure ain’t happening yet in music sales. From today’s W$J: Thanks largely to aggressive pricing and advertising, big-box chains are [...]
As this blog’s focus increasingly shifts to matters Australian, I figured I should check out the homepage of The Australian to see what’s up down there. There I learned that the cricket World Cup final is tomorrow (well, the people at The Australian think it’s “tonight”; they would, wouldn’t they). I’d totally stopped paying attention [...]
There are a few commenters over at Swampland who, at the slightest provocation, bring up Time‘s Ann Coulter cover story of two years ago as evidence of the perfidy of this here media enterprise. I tend to think that this is nonsense, and that John Cloud did a pretty great job of portraying the staged [...]
