These are my links for December 16th through December 21st:
- Economist eyes social network cash boost – The Economist is ditching a walled garden registration and access model unlike other publishers, and developing a strategy to use social media to allow users to acess and interact with their content, with very ambitious user targets.
- BBC given go-ahead to put internet on TV – In a strange era where the tail wags the dog, TV broadcasters will now be putting TV, er, back on TV through the internet using the 'Project Canvas' set top box. Could prove an opening up of IPTV and internet shopping, niche channels available through the more familiar and family orientated TV device.
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
- Farewell to the Casual Music Fan – Jeremy Scholsberg laments the loss of the casual music fan – the bums on seats people that made popular music popular – in favour of more narrowcast relationships enabled from online interactions and the '1,000 True Fans' model. Do all 'fans' become 'true' fans? Engaging with and monetizing 'casual' fans is near impossible in the digital age, and the skills of musicianship are weakened by self-promotion activity.
