What the heck? A business model actually:
Connect with Fans (CwF) and give them a Reason to Buy (RtB). CwF+RtB=$$$.
techdirt is trying out with price points ranging from $5 in return for their gratitude and a badge for your profile to $1,000 for which you get to hang out with Mike Masnick and the Techndirt […]
I’ve been working pretty hard lately so I was really looking forward to an evening off in front of the tv. The PVR needs serious cleaning off because it’s getting too full. I thought I’d start with Lost. I have a lot of questions about Lost, the big one being is anyone really into this […]
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Over at in shot, there’s a post on why TV must change its revenue model — and fast.
Broadcast television is about to be turned on its head. While many media proprietors (including free-to-air, pay-tv, cable and satellite operators) are still breathing a sigh of relief from the costs to switch to digital, the real battle […]
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years. In my last post, I talked about viewing habits. Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]
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Rob Mills turned me on to a very important interview with Eric Garland of Big Champagne, who has been monitoring trends in filing sharing for almost 10 years. In the CNET interview, Garland puts what he knows in the context of the future of the film and music industries. He has a lot […]
An interesting week for indepth industrial coverage of the television biz. There was the Walrus’s long piece on the Canadian industry but also The Wrap’s Josef Adalian’s article (part one a
nd part two)on the end of television as we know it. It’s a somewhat depressing read, but it definitely raises interesting questions.
Adalian believes that we […]
