#business
Angels in the Abattoir
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog...
Thea Gilmore's new idea for a music business model. I'll be interested to see if it takes off. And...
Kickstarter » Projects
A commercial scale ransomware/fundraising site that'll work for any creative endeavour. Now to thin...
Obviously, I will have to order some of these at the first available opportunity. And then people w...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/01/i...
I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all co...
http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/03/onlin...
Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though e...
http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2009/03/this-is-how...
I propose holding anyone that describes themselves as an "e-marketer" (or anything remotely similar)...
http://www.core77.com/blog/news/john_thackara_desi...
He starts out spelling how we're fucked on an economic and environmental level. And then he gets in...
The Problem With Music
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Steve Albini's breakdown of exactly how much a band can expect now to earn in a normal record indust...
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-an...
Yes, it's true. Newspapers are fucked. Hardly radical thinking, but a very cogent summary of exact...
http://battellemedia.com/archives/004832.php
Clear analysis of why Google's might wish to acquire Twitter, and an interesting note about the like...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/technology/14cla...
I know it'll be good for consumers in the long run, but I *like* buying through iTunes, especially s...
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/craig...
The CEO of Craigslist attempts to explain to a Wall Street Audience that his goal is serving users,...
Top 10 Web 2.0 Losers
http://wisdump.com/web/top-10-web-20-losers/
List of companies that have either blown their Web2.0 atttempts, or simply been left behind. Falls...
http://interconnected.org/home/2006/04/30/skype_al...
Webb's one of the best futurists I've encountered, because he's extremely realistic in his outlook,...
Pricing a Project
http://www.blueflavor.com/ed/tips_tricks/pricing_a...
People often blink when I tell them the cost of projects I'm working on, or how much their "little b...