YouTube's new business model
YouTube’s Video ID technology points to an important new business model. Video ID finds copyrighted content that has been uploaded to YouTube. It then gives the copyright holder the choice to block, promote, or monetize that content. Copyright holders benefit from being able to exploit free, decentralized distribution and promotion of their work. Google/YouTube benefits [...]
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COB-26: bureaucracy begins at home
Important recent economic research has affirmed the foundations of bureaucracy. You might think that more home-based labor-saving technology would decrease the amount of time spent on work within the home (home production). That is not true. A thorough and careful study of available data shows that “per capita time spent in home production increased slightly [...]
to my imaginary mate
The dish washer stopped working just quit. I meant to scrub them earlier but a week went by And there’s dishes in the sink and trash piled high and I haven’t done the laundry and can’t see the floor. It’s not my fault. It’s indolence it’s evidence that I’m alive. My dearest – every day [...]
divine playfulness
Persons who consider a book to contain the words of God read those words very carefully. But a human being, even a fashion-besotted English professor (Discourse! Discourse!), makes sense of words with more than words. Consider this story: Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a [...]
real-world reasoning
A law professor figured out that persons cannot be legally prosecuted for crimes that take place in Yellowstone National Park’s fifty-square-mile area in Idaho. He wrote an article about the law’s Yellowstone-Idaho crime problem. The Georgetown Law Journal accepted and published his article. No one has convincingly refuted his legal analysis. In conjunction with his [...]
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ultimate
Ultimate. That’s Frisbee – a game men play. Remember Civil War volunteers – men who lined up to catch lead like wind into farm field poplars. Now one locks his eyes on a floating disk; the body launches, even as tendons rip. Not a death wish. Men seeking transcendence.
television's moving into the toilet
YouTube is currently selling ads against less than 3% of its inventory. YouTube’s advertising revenue is likely to total about $200 million for 2008. One explanation for YouTube’s relatively poor advertising performance is that advertisers are concerned about what appears around their ads: Some big advertisers, [Sean Muzzy, media director at Neo@Ogilvy, a digital ad [...]
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anti-social science
In 1980, a famous ethologist went into the jungles of Venezuela to videotape Yanomama natives. He would videotape them seven or eight hours a day. A graduate student helping him observed: After a while people started getting unnerved, particularly since he was shooting right at them. They were especially upset about their babies, whom [famous [...]
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