Yes, We Have a Soul, But It’s Made of Lots of Tiny Robots Edition
Todays links of interest:
- Doctor’s Outrage: Asked to Rat on Patients?
You know what would end this type of shit? Universal health coverage. - Paris Hilton’s Little Brother Arrested for DUI
Apparently, he was a producer on "The Hottie and The Nottie," and was trying to forget the Box Office receipts. - Too early to know cause of BlackBerry outage
We’re going to bet on "God hates you." - Australia to Apologize to Aborigines
Finally, Peter Garrett’s work is done. - Delilah accompanies Plain White T’s to Grammys
Neither the overall cuteness of this story, nor the fact that the guy wrote a Grammy-nominated song for her and is still going to strike out makes that song any less awful. You know what sucks, getting pwned by Toto. Because the Toto guy not only got the girl, that song won Record of the Year. Which didn’t make his song any less awful, either. - Strike yields mixed results for Hollywood writers
Not so much for the fans: it ain’t over for us yet, as we’ll have to put up with crappy reality shows until fall. One cool thing: the late night shows are finally going to be at full strength. - 25 ‘Thriller’ facts
#26: if you look in the dictionary, you’ll find it under "peaking out." - Natalie Cole slams ‘bad role model’ Winehouse’s Grammy win
Shut up, Natalie Cole. If Natalie Cole feels so bad about this, then perhaps she should put her money where her mouth is and return the Grammys she won while she was a druggie. Also, let’s never forget that she had her big Grammy year because she was able to exhume the ghost of her father via the marvels of technology. It was creepy then and it was creepy Monday night when Alicia Keys sang with Frank Sinatra’s ghost, who probably just wanted to bang her instead.
Heard your talk at Tools of Change today.
I loved it. I walked out when the tussle started with the lawyer about the theoretical concept that “pricing will drive to zero”. I heard too much of that in business school to listen to ever again after your great presentation. Just what product in the real world isn’t driving to a zero price? Everything I have worked on during the last 20 years has. Some of it doesn’t exist today because if is of absolutely no value to today’s world. Just how much would you pay for a Conestoga wagon today? When it was built it was all the rage, could float, and became the number one way to move to the Great West. It made a lot of people in Pennsylvania rich, but today, you might pay for one for your ‘antique transportation collection’, just like you might a Roman chariot. Do you buy your suits at the beginning or the end of the season? Being from a retail family, I never pay retail. This price decay process starts pretty early, even for the greatest brands. You gave the best answer, “give them something they do want to pay for.” That is what most American businessmen are doing every day, but I wouldn’t expect a lawyer to understand that. When the IP laws were first penned in England during the reign of Queen Anne I believe, the idea was for a limited monopoly for the creator, so they could earn some payback, but not too long so as to prevent them from further innovation. This argument is so tired, and music and media had better get over it. It is an abomination to me that Mickey Mouse didn’t revert to the public domain after so many years in copyright. That is a subversion of the common law. So much for free markets in America. I am not a believer in that fiction. We’re always trying to rig it, and many of us get away with it. Good luck to you. It was a great presentation, and everyone should take heed of your insight.
Oh man, as one of the ‘Lopers who wasn’t able to make it to New York, I can hardly wait to hear about this from Kirk & Kassia.