Today’s links of interest:
- Controversy Surrounding Lou Dobbs Has Failed to Increase His Ratings
And here we thought it was the fact that his facial expression often resembles a man sucking on a lemon that made people turn away.
Archives for July 2009
The Daily Loper – Jul 30, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Patti Smith at Book Soup on Saturday
Yeah, this is the important stuff! - Warner Bros. lawsuit claims $10 million loss in brazen DVD theft
This might be the most interesting (and sad) entertainment story we’ve seen in a while. Comments are particularly intriguing. - The Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles
Special to Kirk Biglione.
The Daily Loper – Jul 29, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Microsoft, Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership
If Bing search is so good, why is this going to take 10 years? Seems like they could find what they’re looking for a lot sooner.
The Daily Loper – Jul 27, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Silverman Will Join Barry Diller for Venture at IAC
Goodbye Ben Silverman, thanks for the, uh, well great headlines. - Apple, labels work on plan to boost album sales: report
Weird, someone is missing from this equation.
The Daily Loper – Jul 22, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Microsoft closing YouTube rival
How embarrassing. Have never even heard of Soapbox. Now it’s gone. - Exclusive: MySpace Mail Slated To Launch This Week
File under: totally useless. See also: no way in hell. - CEO Letter | Zappos.com
In which the happiness principle meets Amazon: Zappos joins the Amazon family.
The Daily Loper – Jul 21, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Beastie Boys cancel Lollapalooza date; MCA announces he has cancer
We wish Adam Yauch a speedy recovery. - Cablevision sucks
Jeff Jarvis discusses his problems with Cablevision. Companies: you have to be responsive to your customers. End of story. - Music Industry Lures ‘Casual’ Pirates to Legal Sites
Speaking of combating piracy… - Blowin’ in the Wind
In this modern era, can we please, please, please have a worldwide discussion about copyright (read this all the way through).
Digging Deeper Into Amazon’s Orwellian Moment
When media historians write the history of DRM they may well devote a whole chapter to the day that Amazon customers awoke to find that their Kindle editions of “1984” had vanished into a memory hole and that Big Brother Bezos had apparently turned George Orwell into an unperson.
You would be hard pressed to invent a more apt or ironic example of the dangers of DRM. Surely this will be the incident that finally raises consumer awareness of the risks involved in buying DRM protected media.
And yet, after digging deeper into this story, I’m not convinced that this was a DRM issue at all. At least, not in the truest sense.
Further, this incident raises a host of interesting rights related issues that have largely gone unexplored in the days since.
Consider the following: [Read more…] about Digging Deeper Into Amazon’s Orwellian Moment
The Daily Loper – Jul 16, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes
And, of course, he got a $15 overdraft fee from Bank of America.
The Daily Loper – Jul 15, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Michael Jackson’s Head On Fire: 1984 Pepsi Accident Video Found
Found?! Was it ever lost? We are amused by the idea that Us has some sort of exclusive on a 25 year old video that was replayed endlessly in the pre-YouTube era. We also feel very old.
The Daily Loper – Jul 13, 2009
Today’s links of interest:
- Streaming Kills Piracy
Fred Wilson on how convenient, usable legal channels of distribution have a negative impact on piracy.