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Archive for the 'New Media' Category

R U Sirius, XM?

by @ Thursday, February 22nd, 2007. Filed under Emerging, New Media, New Paradigms, podcasting

It’s not often that The Portable Consultant scoops The Economist… well, not exactly but sort of… Back in July of 2005 I suggested here that Internet options (like podcasting) would compete with satellite radio. I followed this up with a couple of posts… here… and here. Today The Economist commented on the pending merger of [...]

DRM days numbered

by @ Wednesday, February 7th, 2007. Filed under Multimedia, New Media, New Paradigms

Steve Jobs’ already famous Thoughts on Music probably marks the end of DRM. Certainly it will take time, but when a major force like Apple iTunes’ boss suggests that the world would be better off without DRM you can be sure they are also working behind the scenes to promote this vision. The statistics on the [...]

The Economist nails Yahoo as “old new media”

by @ Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006. Filed under New Media

The Economist in agreement with The Portable Consultant Back in January of 2006 The Portable Consultant mumbled something about YouTube and wondered online why Fickr hadn’t added video, suggesting that their acquisition by Yahoo had sucked the innovation out of them. Now, many months and several video startups later, it appears that Webshots and Flickr [...]

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