On Banapana I wrote...
Artists like Radiohead, with their digitally distributed and variably priced album “In Rainbows,” have gotten the gist of direct distribution (or disintermediation for you nerds1) for a few years now. Aside from the movie Bubble—not a financial success…
December 13 2011, 12:46pm
On Banapana I wrote...
Lots of opinions and attitudes feisty have been stirred up by the recent announcement from Netflix that the company will be split down the boundary of physical media (neue nambre Qwikster) and streamed media (Netflix sans DVD). Personally—and…
September 21 2011, 2:11pm
On Banapana I wrote...
On reading a recent post at Freakonomics on how the media is liberally biased, I was reminded of the problem of an old email that had circulated for far too long (and probably is still circulating). It was…
August 9 2011, 5:08pm
On Banapana I wrote...
An addendum to James Surowiecki’s “Soft in the Middle” In the New Yorker, James Surowiecki (of the “The Wisdom of Crowds” fame) makes the assertion that life is getting hard for corporations “in the mushy middle”—high, middle and…
March 23 2010, 11:11pm
On Banapana I wrote...
Rupert Murdoch is going to take his ball and go home. In a recent interview, he informed all that he intends to eventually block Google and some other search engines from indexing his News Corp. sites and then…
November 10 2009, 10:48am
On Banapana I wrote...
“World Builder” is a very nicely produced (and touching) short film by Bruce Banit. From the Vimeo page: “A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves.” This is the kind of virtual…
July 8 2009, 1:38pm