Comcast has it all wrong: “Consumers need to change to fit our old, dying, ridiculous business models…”

Comcast has it all wrong: “Consumers need to change to fit our old, dying, ridiculous business models…”

Ever concern yourself with such trivial things as how the media/content industry is changing to adapt to the digital age and fit around what end users really want? Comcast apparently gives two sh*ts about you and what you want. I’ll let the man, Comcast COO Steve Burk, dig his own grave: An entire generation is growing up, if we don’t figure out how to change that behavior so it respects copyright and subscription revenue on the part of distributors,...

Chad Ochocinco to all who support “traditional” news based business models: “To hell with the middleman”

Chad Ochocinco to all who support “traditional” news based business models: “To hell with the middleman”

The social networking bans making there way across various professional level sports is not only stupid, but extremely ignorant and short sighted on the leagues’ parts. First, by protecting old archaic business models and not embracing a new, modern technology, they are pushing themselves and their message further into irrelevance. Thankfully for us techies, Bengals player, Chad Ochocinco, isn’t taking this affront to modern news reporting or fan interacting...

“This internet is different”. This is how it’s going to be!

“This internet is different”.  This is how it’s going to be!

According to Sascha Lobo, co-initiator of the Internet Manifesto, Journalism has to adapt to today’s as well as the futures emerging technologies. Photo: Reto Klar Bloggers as of late have been getting a fair deal of flack from more “reputable” news sources with fat checkbooks and more legal resources than most of us would know what to do with. Time and time again we have seen bigger news publications attack smaller blogs for piracy, siphoning content,...