Issues

Why I won’t buy an iPhone

Posted by dwalker on March 19, 2008 at 9:21 am

Apple’s iPhone is a pretty sweet piece of tech. Add in the support for Exchange (meaning it will soon push email at you like a Blackberry) the recently released Software Development Kit (which means that hundreds of cool new applications will run on it, without having to hack it) and you have a laptop-in-a-handset that [...]

Opportunities blossom due to writer’s strike?

Posted by dwalker on December 17, 2007 at 2:21 pm

A very thought-provoking article in the LA Times about striking writers in talks to develop online startups. Here, in equation format, is my thought process on this:
Talented writers and industry sympathizers on strike
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TV and movie studios who have not learned the lessons of the music industry
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Blossoming infrastructure for alternative distribution via the Web
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Millions of people [...]

Fight the Canadian DMCA

Posted by dwalker on December 6, 2007 at 9:05 am

The US Digital Millennium Copyright Act has seriously hampered innovations in media technology by making it far too easy for copyright holders and content companies to create closed systems. If the lobbyists that got that law passed have anything to say about it, buying a CD and putting it on your iPod would result in [...]

Dove Besieged over Onslaught

Posted by dwalker on November 26, 2007 at 12:54 pm

What goes up, must come down, I suppose. If you subscribe to Social Media Today (my podcast, you would already know about this when Jason Theodore and I discussed it), but it seems like the Dove’s are coming home to roost at Unilever.
It has been hitting me everywhere over the last couple of days, Unilever [...]

I cry for my industry

Posted by dwalker on November 23, 2007 at 2:40 pm

I just got through reading The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos along with a chunk of the over 350 comments on TechCrunch and it has frankly ruined my day.
I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media, earned media and the democratization of communication channels. I buy into a lot of [...]