ColonelPanik’s Comments

• May 24th, 2010 @ 7:14am

  Walking backwards into the future?

  on An Amusing Historical Look At Moral Panics And The Content Industry
  Oh noes, the future will kill the past!
• Dec 12th, 2009 @ 7:39am

  Profit over product

  on Understanding The Decline And Fall Of The Major Record Labels
  News papers became obsessed with profits at the expense
  of the "editorial" content.
  
  Auto makers put profit ahead of quality.
  
  Health care became wealth care.
  
  TV, music, movies have all been selling shoddy but
  charging customers premium prices.
  
  Do not get me started on education.... Universities
  are stealing the students research, hoping to make
  a profit with out compensating the producer.
  
  Fliping houses? Selling broken software? The food
  we get may be killing us? Just for profit?
  
  Lets hope that the "Best Government That Money Can Buy"
  will step in and save us.
• Oct 27th, 2009 @ 4:17pm

  Only a problem for the middleman

  on Booksellers Claiming That Competition And Lower Prices Are Bad For Consumers
  Google up some info on Cory Doctorow. He has been
  very quick to use alternative marketing ideas.
  He is a best selling author and still puts his
  work on the net for free. Uses Creative Commons
  license.
  
  I attended a Jack Williamson Lectureship this year.
  The authors (SF) were happy, writing, excited about
  reaching out to their fans. The agents and publishers
  were crying and wringing their hands.
  
  It is a new world.