Garret wonders if MovableType’s brought back my joy of weblogging….
I gotta admit, the interface is sweet. Then again, it has been more of a compulsion then anything else 🙂
Author Archives: Karl
Nice to be able to say here
New version of Cofax available for your downloading pleasure.
I can get to like this 🙂
Content Publishing Systems Squash News Design
Steve Outing – Content Publishing Systems Squash News Design Do a little research next time. It’s not the technology in our case – but it’s implementation. To be fair – some systems do squash design. Post-Nuke for example. You need to be a programmer to change the design of a Post-Nuke site. But many, many, do not. Including what I’m using here at paradox1x.
Going to be buying our first house
A really big deal as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t lived in a family owned house since I was five years old. It was difficult to overcome many internal impulses not to go forward. Impulses I’m sure that are embedded in me from my background growing up.
But here we go 🙂 Just signed the first series of papers last night. What a weird thought…. owning a house!
Philly antidrug effort may be cut back
Inquirer – City’s antidrug effort may be cut back Why start something if you don’t intend to finish it. This was a very promissing effort that I’ve heard great things about. There were even news reports of how the dealing moved out of Philly to Camden where the Camden police were about to ramp up to handle it. Damn shame. Damn shame.
Added a new block of links to my sidebar
Left, Right, and Center (not really much in the center is there?) so you can read punditry from across the spectrum.
How to beat the record labels on the Web
CNET – How to beat the record labels on the Web
The answer lies in controlling the rights to recordings. It’s only after start-ups get into the game of signing artists that they will truly be able to control the destiny of downstream distribution. This is no easy task. Record companies have spent decades building up a sourcing system, and have a huge competitive advantage when it comes to expertise in promotion and marketing.
But the majors have huge vulnerabilities when it comes to their cost structures, and the amount of units they need to sell to break even on a title. And, as in all instances where sleeping giants get unseated, it will happen first at the fringes.
There is a long history of small labels making inroads into overlooked genres, and while these independent efforts have historically grown up to be fodder for major acquisitions, it won’t be long before a burgeoning independent makes better strategic use of distribution technology. Often, one loose brick can bring down the whole wall.
So my advice to the plethora of music start-ups focused on distribution? Give it up.
If ya can’t beat ’em… join ’em
The Rich Got Richer in the 90s
Salon – highlights from the Census. Makes a point of how few people climbed out of poverty during that period. At least the number didn’t grow (as I suspect it maybe right now). I climbed from poverty to the middle class in the 90s.
From Spain – We Are All Americans
World Press Review – We Are All Americans
American influence consists of a whole bundle of things, of varying degrees of goodness and toxicity. Thanks to the example of the United States, a large part of the world takes democracy as a natural value. Almost no nation for many years now has dared to declare itself anything except a democracy, and in doing that, subscribe to an entire list of human rights?regardless of whether or not it continues to violate them.
World Press Review is a good site to get a view of how the world sees the world and us.
Payola Lives
Shannon points to an article that covers the sad state of affairs in radio.