March 3, 2009
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Charlie Rose interviews Marc Andreessen.
What a seriously smart guy. Though I must say I disagree that the NYTimes should immediately shut down its print edition. I think it’s possible for a company to innovate while simultaneously harvesting the money to do so from a non-growing cash business.
#February 18, 2009
Want Content? "Pick One"
A meeting with the super smart Avner Ronen of Boxee yesterday, combined with reading coverage of the Pirate Bay trial and the 30 Rock “McFlurrygate” has got me thinking on overdrive about the future of video content.
In a conversation last night with my buddy Aaron, we came up with a simple rule called “Pick One.” While certainly not groundbreaking, it’s an easy way to think about the future of entertainment.
I’ve seen a lot of folks living inside the insular tech world develop the attitude that they deserve their content free of:
- cost
- time/focus consuming advertising
- product placement
This led to the “pick one” theory. For a sustainable content production model, the consumer has to pick one of those. I hate to play the old media asshole here, but an episode of Lost isn’t going to get made with none of the above.
February 15, 2009
Always love reading coverage of media armageddon.
Here’s my take: A good way to predict how a technology in transition will end up is to imagine what would result if everything collapsed tomorrow and was rebuilt from the ground up. In that scenario, here’s what I think would happen.
Knowledge is power. Money buys power.
Rich people will pay for high quality and timely information because it will give them an advantage over those with bad information.
The result will be, as Peter Kafka predicts, “a bifurcated world: People with a lot of resources will get access to high-quality information. Everyone else will get free stuff that has little value.”
A Programming Note
New episode of The CollegeHumor Show on tonight - 9:30/8:30c, MTV.
Tonight’s episode: “Interns,” wherein our goofy gang figures out they can get attractive girls to talk to them and not run away if they hire them as interns.
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