There are few companies on the planet that can pony up a half-billion dollar fine for criminal behavior and shrug it off like an overpriced night on the town.  And there are probably even fewer companies that can pay such a fine and continue to get away with the very same behavior.  But then, not every company is a as ...

In contemplating two of the film projects I’m currently writing, I told my wife that I’ve been thinking about embracing new models.  With raised eyebrows, she demanded an explanation, and the more I tried to explain “new models” in the sense the internet industry has used the expression since the days of Napster, the more I believe she wished I’d ...

“It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”   — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Internet culture seems to want to promote two values that, when combined, cannot help but produce some mischief.  How much mischief remains to be seen, but the values to which I refer are anonymity and the wisdom of crowds (a ...

Okay, it’s not often (see never), you’ll find me quoting Julian Assange other than with an inebriated smirk. Although erudite, I think of the man as kind of a digital-age Abbie Hoffman whose primary cause is to increase the relative importance of himself. And we haven’t heard much from Assange lately, holed up as he is in the Ecuadoran Embassy ...

IOM Webcast – A Conversation with Dan Goodman of Believe Entertainment Group from David Newhoff on Vimeo. There’s no question that digital technologies have fostered tremendous opportunity for any content creator with a dream and the passion to pursue it; but these technologies have also created a dynamic, even volatile, market with forces both great and small competing for ad ...

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