Note: UltraViolet was shut down on July 31, 2019. The Serendipity Economy is a superset of other economic models. Warner Bros recently discovered The Serendipity Economy's effects as they rolled out their Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem consortium developed UltraViolet "digital copy" product for entertainment titles. As documented in this Associated Press story … [Read more...] about Hollywood and the Serendipity Economy-The Unexpected Chilly Reception to Warner Bros UltraViolet
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Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be
or Shakespeare isn't Anonymous In light of the fun, interesting, and I think, utterly fictional Anonymous, I thought I would repost this item from my now defunct Future of Information Work blog. Be challenged, but enjoy. 4/7/2008 2:45:59 PM Shakespeare Wars I have finally finished Rosenbaum's Shakespeare Wars. I love Shakespeare, but why include comments on … [Read more...] about Shakespeare in Theory – and Why Computer’s Aren’t As Interesting As They Used to Be
Government Forecasts and Scenario Planning: If Governments Want Growth, They Need to Inspire, Not Just Reinforce Negative Forecasts
Government Forecasts and Scenario Planning Governments need to start speaking and thinking in scenario planning terms and not just articulating single-minded dire government forecasts. They need to do this in times of struggle and in times of prosperity. Today, for instance, "The Federal Reserve sharply downgraded its projections for the U.S. economy Wednesday, warning … [Read more...] about Government Forecasts and Scenario Planning: If Governments Want Growth, They Need to Inspire, Not Just Reinforce Negative Forecasts
Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Photo by freestocks.org on Pexels.com Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators? The tale has been told about Netflix and its surprise announcement of rate hikes (see Brian Stelter's summary, Netflix, in Reversal, Will Keep Its Services Together, from his Media Decode blog at The New York Times), its equally … [Read more...] about Netflix: Strategic Dysfunction or 21st-Century Strategic Transparency fueled by citizen regulators?
Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
Remembering Steve Jobs...I was a staunch advocate of Tandy TRS-DOS over CPM. I owned a big silver and grey box that I personally updated from 32KB of memory to 48KB and replaced the slow external cassette tape player with two 184KB floppy disk drives. And then I met Macintosh. 128KB of Ram and two 400KB disk drives. For the next decade, I worked closely with Apple as one of the … [Read more...] about Remembering Steve Jobs #stevejobs
