A writeup in the New York Times asks Can Disney Build a Better Mickey Mouse?. The company acknowledges that revenue from Mickey merchandise, measured as a portion of all consumer products, has shrunk significantly since 1997. What Disney doesn’t acknowledge is that Mickey’s reputation, measured in conversations with industry watchers, is shrinking even more. Still, […]
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Software Engineering for Internet Applications, seen on . Great information and advice for anyone who works building, umm, Internet applications. Thankfully, low on the code/jargon and high on the concepts/ideas scale. I’d love to send it around at work but the people who’d most benefit from it are the least likely to read it. From
The BloggerCon wiki for Making Blogs Make Money is an excellent and pretty thorough summary of different way for generating revenue with a blog. A lot of these ideas, of course, apply to any web site.
I actually got to say the following to one of our managers over lunch today: “So, project managers would take the requirements from the client and bring them to the developer. Would you say that’s what they would do here?” It pretty much made my day…
Explanations why channel bundling may actually be good, since you get more channels for a lower price, over at . This doesn’t address how some channels are only availble in high priced bundles. Maybe it’d be possible to pick what N (5, 10, 30) channels you get? More plausibly, price discrimination is at work. Consider
This one is mostly for my friends with blogs on Dork Tower. I figure I could aim it to you all individually or post it here instead.
Apparently so according to w draft working paper Koleman Strumpf’s on the effect of file sharing and music sales Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates. Moreover, these estimates are of moderate economic significance and are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason
I’m not sure what gods we angered at work but one of our production servers has been quite unruly this week which has left me with little time to post to my blog.
As much as the studios go after p2p and legitimate users for stealing content, it seems they need to keep a closer eye on their own employees. From the Smoking Gun, Fox Employee in Film Piracy Probe. Secret Service agents last month raided the Los Angeles home of a Fox Entertainment employee suspected of involvement