Sunday Video Monetize Free

The news debate continues. How to get it paid for? Associated Press still thinks it is 'their' content. They create it. They do the research to find it. They distribute it. They own it. Yep they do all of it.

BUT once it is out, it has no value. The information belongs to the consumer. The consumer can now be Associated Press, and redistribute it. That's syndication. It can be monetized. However, most old mass media companies don't understand that.

That's the part of the new emerging business model that confounds the media barons.
Well it's their barronhood (sic) that's under attack. That's the real issue.

With 150 million users, could Facebook be Associated Press. In a way, it is for the demographic, which uses Facebook. They don't know and don't care, who AP is. AP and its' mass media conglomerate benefactors might want to note that.

Take a look, this video might offer a better understanding, why Newspapers and Broadcasters are in distress, financially.



Charlie Rose understands it. I can redistribute his video material. Do it often. Could not do that with AP Video.

AP is vast and important player. They aren't the only player. They don't get that yet.

Neither do local media, in our town. That's why reporters continue to get laid off.

Here's what old media thinks will work.

Will you buy it?

Here's what new thinkers think

What say you?

Saturday Tech Day

Useful, well we hope so, energy and conservation solutions.

Composter from Costco

Hydrogen Power Home

Solar Powered Home Theatre

Net Buffet - Slimmer Pickins Coming

Keep an eye out. The all you can eat Internet buffet is on it's way out. For a decade or so, we've enjoyed unfettered access to the net. Access is under severe attack, by incumbent telephone and cable companies.

The phone companies say they need to manage, aka protect their networks from over use. So everyone gets a minimum level of service. Gosh you would think if demand exceeds supply there is money to made supplying more. Seems logical, right?

What is over use? Who says, some one is over using? It is the guy next door, downloading a movie, or several. It it the kid down the street updating his music collection? Is it the researcher, at the UofA , crunching data, with colleagues in India.

ISPs want more money. Metered Billing is the way to get. That's classical old economy thinking.
Control and ration. Create scarcity, where there is abundance. Old thinking, that has brought on the current economic crisis, made us all poorer, stifled innovation.




Oligopolies get away with it because they control the regulatory process, by controlling the regulator, in this case the CRTC.

"...The CRTC's vice-chairman, Leonard Katz, spent 17 years working for Rogers and 11 for Bell. Canada's Telecom Telecommunications Policy Review Panel,..."

What"s good for Bell, et al is not good for you. First by capping your bandwidth, your connections are slow. Try sending a 5 MB picture, in an email. Capping, controlling and rationing, there's no need to innovate, or invest. Margins are high, profits too. Who cares about efficiency, or innovation? No need to improve the network, beyond a minimum standard. Our standard is low and slow, when compared to other countries.

Creating scarcity, under a false flag of network security and equanimity, is the ruse. There's a coordinated campaign, afoot to take control of the net. Access is the control point.

Content regulation is coming too. Music, Movie, and News industries, the mass media content providers and producers are in alignment, on dispatching net neutrality to the dust bin. Capping works for them too. Package content bundles are coming to the net. Think cable television. How much control do you have over the programming packages. None!

We are witnessing, if we care to see, how capitalism works and fails us. Don't be fooled. Less, is not more, never was. Network regulation is code for control, scarcity, rationing, and higher costs for us.

Further reading.

Coordinated Government action :

France Australia More on Australia New Zealand

Regulation in Canada

Capping The net

Lowest Possible Standard

Metered Billing

Sunday Video Web 2.0 What is it

Lots of notions about what web2.0 is.



No better person to explain than then guy who invented the term, Tim O'Reillly, no relation to Bill O'Reilly.





Read on, some current web history.

Skyped Out

Hey Reg, he's my buddy. Actually, my very good tech buddy. Everyone needs one of those. So how's Skype working, on at that Fido/Rogers iphone? Rogers and Fido are the providers of iPhone service, in Canada.

Skype is, world's largest phone company. Except it isn't a phone company, as we know phone companies. Skype lets you make cheap calls, over and through the internet, and now via wifi, with the iphone.

Now, I know, any new iphone app is a stop the presses moment. However, Skype mobile is also on a host of other cell phones, too. Phones that don't have a wifi connection. You know, lower tech phones, which are less smart, than smart phones, and whole bunch less expensive!

Skype came to the iphone yesterday, in a limited Apple command and control sort of way, via wifi only. Well sort of, Skype for the iphone is every where on the planet, expect Canada.

Another example of the progressive thinking that infects Canadian life. Rogers is afraid. Really afraid it'll lose money. Skype on cell networks is working well in Europe. No phone companies going broke there. Just another example of the way things work, in Canada. Well off the leading edge that's for sure.

So Reg how is Skype, on that iphone working for ya. Working around it with Fring? Or this maybe? Just wondering? Skype me!