Archive for June 30th, 2008
Weblogg-Ed: A nice summer reading list.
Dave’s Whiteboard: The more senses you activate, the better it is for getting learning and memory happen.
The Relationship Economy …: Which mole are you whacking through your business practices? Jay Deragon has an interesting riff off of Seth Godin’s observations about improving your business model via the low-hanging fruit.
Janet Clarey: If you can’t beat social media, maybe you can just join it.
Avant Game: Why alternate reality games don’t work.
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The Associated Press recently decided that they were going to refuse to be quoted on blogs anymore, insisting that even some 35 word or less quotes were copyright violations. It’s wrong and illegal, they say, to quote them directly without paying them $2.50 per word.
As conversations about current events move online, what the AP seems likely to have done is to just cut themselves out of the link economy. Jeff Jarvis suggests that this could be the end of them.
It’s easy to say that they have every right to control their content as strictly as they want to, fair use be hanged. Though in this information age, that might not be the most ultimately self-interested way to look at the question. Consider the Recording Industry Association of America, the RIAA.
