content creators have been happily coexisting with piracy all this time, and I’m certainly one of them. Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment
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We should delight in the stand we’ve taken in favor of things like, say, notifications, and trials, and proof before censoring someone, but we should get ready to do it again next year, and the year after that. The risk now is not that SOPA will pass. The risk is that we’ll think we’ve won. We haven’t; they’ll be back. Get ready to have this fight again.
— Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky
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The problem is that journalism’s true value-creating work, the keystone of American journalism, the principle around which it is organized, is public-interest reporting; the kind that is usually expensive, risky, stressful, and time-consuming. Public-interest reporting isn’t just another tab on the home page. It is a core value, the thing that builds trust, sets agendas, clarifies public understanding, challenges powerful institutions, and generates reform. It is, in the end, the point.
— Confidence Game – provocative op-end on the problem with the “future-of-news consensus” (via curiositycounts)
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nielsen group media universe infographic.
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The Bustle and the Silence, by Taylor Davidson →
A fantastic photo project by my good friend @tdavidson.
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Think Quarterly →
Gorgeous web-based book from Google’s new ThinkQuarterly.
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Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz's guide to getting a sitcom cancelled | Culture | The Guardian →
And they’ve sacked another one of my new favorite shows - Running Wilde. Boo.
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To focus only on WikiLeaks is to miss the big picture of what’s happening with information — just like focusing only on Napter in 1999 would have led you to miss the bigger revolution in digital music. The original Napster was shut down in 2001, but its P2P heirs continue to share pirated files, and it paved the way for the rise of iTunes and Pandora — and the fall of Tower Records. Similarly, you can jail Julian Assange, but you probably can’t jail every 17 year old hacker whose blood is boiling because you just jailed Julian Assange — nor can you get a restraining order on every fed-up associate, manager, or cashier who wants to blow the whistle on you.
— Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review (via taylordavidson)
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That Senator Liebermann & Co were able to pull Wikileaks from Amazon and Paypal (and now MasterCard have pulled them*) (Update - now Visa too) sans lawsuit, sans argument, sans any pushback that one normally expects is a scary thought to anybody who is not part of the US Establishment and who wants to rely on the Internet in a tough period.
*It would appear that one can still donate money to the Ku Klux Klan and buy porn via Visa and Mastercard….
