Friends: So let me get this right, your publication as a publisher of an a**kissing magazine goes out of business (see Silicon Alley Reporter). You decide to sell tickets to people who want to monetize content. Then try to milk them of money while admitting to stealing their content in the process. (See paragraph "This past weekend...") You have to admire someone with enough balls to do that, or they are really stupid, not sure which. Jason McCabe Calacanis if you come across this, good luck with your event, but I'd suggest reading this...
Never met this guy...
How to monetize and protect digital content is clearly the most important question driving the media today. Hmmmmm, the horse is gone from the stable, why not find a new system that works with technology not against it...
This past weekend, I was not only able to download the entire season of WB's Smallville and UPN's Enterprise over KaZaA, but I was also able to burn them all onto blank CDs (total cost for 20 episodes: around $10 in blank CDs) and play them in my DVD player with Nero video CD-burning software. These TV shows were not only available free over the Internet, but the people are putting them up on the Internet took the time to take out the commercials. You know I do believe that was illegal....
Content is being stolen and shared by tens of millions of users around the world. Yourself included evidently. Another consideration: The media industry is not just being faced with the challenge of protecting content, it's also faced with the challenge of moving this content into digital format, managing mountains of data, and creating the right system to deliver it to customers. In other words, we have to pay the bill to build systems and then hope that the freeloading public actually takes out its wallet. To wit: It's not going to be easy. I hope, really, I hope your not holding your breath...and excuse me but did you just accuse the consumers of being a bunch of freeloaders? Hint, Jason don't insult your customers, it's just bad business.
Solving the content-management challenge includes addressing billing, digital-rights management, media-asset management, streaming, personalization, and data management (to name just a few of the issues). At the Content Management Summit (fka Digital Rights Management Summit), 75 senior execuives will join to discuss these issues and also to look at the latest technology and services being developed to tackle these complicated problems. If this is such a Senior level event how did he get my name? And Content Management, why don't you try customer service and get the executives talking to their customers, they might have a few ideas....
The Content Management Summit is being held on Jan. 29 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles--think of it as one day with 75 senior executives, and many questions to address. What are we doing here? Is that Julia Roberts? Why is the sky so brown? Why is my leg turning yellow?
The format of the event includes a handful of presentations about the leading content-management systems, but also two one-hour "breakout" sessions, in which the 75 senior executives will break into three groups of 25 to discuss and debate the questions facing of the online content industry. What will I be doing while the executives get their special session?
There are three main goals for the event: Get Drunk, Get Laid, Get High? (or in Jason's case Get a Job?)
1. Bring together the leading media, distribution, and technology players in the space for high-level discourse Use it in a sentence, "Discourse sucks".
2. Showcase the leading technology solutions for the content-management challenge Don't bother the hackers have already found the holes in it.
3. Create opportunities for senior-level executives to conduct business See Get Drunk....
If you are interested in attending, please visit our website for instructions on how to purchase a ticket. I hope you can join us for this important event. Well, thank you for your interest but I don't think so...unless your willing to front me a plane ticket and entry fees.
Best Regards,
Jason McCabe Calacanis
Editor-in-Chief & CEO,
Venture Reporter & VentureReporter.net
(fka Silicon Alley Reporter)
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Saturday, December 22
Some People Never Learn...
by
Thomas
on Sat 22 Dec 2001 01:13 PM PST
This was in my Inbox
Friday, December 14
Pod People
by
Thomas
on Fri 14 Dec 2001 10:08 AM PST
One other thing, remember my response to Jason the other day? Well, he didn't get my REMOVE message (or do anything with it) and I got another piece of spam from him today. It says about the same things as the previous email, but one interesting new hook.
From Jason's email, "The event will include presentations by eight of the top providers of advertising technologies, solutions, and Internet sites, as well as two one-hour roundtable discussions that we call "pods."" So it left me wondering...if you attend one of those sessions are you a pod person? #5 is perhaps the most telling of the definitions...
Stop Urban Legends Before They Start
by
Thomas
on Fri 14 Dec 2001 08:16 AM PST
I have made reference to Cluetrain occasional and my interest is great enough that I even signed on to the mailing list, but there was a post this morning on the list that was basically, I think someone trying to start an urban myth, so before it goes too far, let's remember the tell-tale signs of one....
1 - Note the use of CNN, but not specificially citing an article, nor who spoke, or when they spoke. --- Angie Boyd Just one of those things that make you say HMMMmmmmmm.... Tuesday, December 11
Monday, December 10
COLAs are not Evil
by
Thomas
on Mon 10 Dec 2001 02:13 PM PST
The media always makes these cost of living adjustments sound evil, but let's face facts people. When members gave up being paid for speaking engagements they allowed a COLA to keep up with inflation, nothing wrong with that. "The latest boost is for 3.4 percent and will raise members' annual salaries to $150,000." That sounds like a lot but if you have to maintain two residences and put kids through school, which many of them do, it suddenly doesn't sound like a whole lot. I am getting 4% in the private sector and we are under a budget crunch, so 3.4 doesn't sound outrageous. I wonder what the reporter who wrote it got for a COLA? Alan Fram opposed disclosure of his salary, but complains about the Congress alittle hypocritical, no? He states he's a private citizen, but I see his name alot in public, don't you? Just so we are clear on matters of disclosure, for those of you who don't know I used to work on the Hill.
Friday, December 7
Elliot
by
Thomas
on Fri 07 Dec 2001 07:46 AM PST
I am listening to Elliot this morning and he has Bobby Slayton on, the guy was hilarious, in DC area no plans this weekend go see him, oh yeah and he has an equal opinion of Uncle Jack.
The one thing I will give Elliot, even though he works for the devil, he's aware of it and actually complains about the life. I mean have 7 different format stations in one building, that must suck and having them all at the same Holiday party, what do you play for Music is it Holiday minimalist?. The whole concept of growing bigger and bigger and then one must be efficient is clearly silly. Tuesday, December 4
Ashes to Ashes...
by
Thomas
on Tue 04 Dec 2001 04:16 PM PST
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust,
It's what the stars are made Even what are bodies are made Ironic it's the dust we now fear. Something so small so unknown so uncertain so much of what life is... we fear the unknown we fear ourselves we fear our mortality.
Virus = Idiot Detector
by
Thomas
on Tue 04 Dec 2001 01:13 PM PST
I just figured out the real reason for viruses, modern idiot detectors, want to find an idiot, next time a virus arrives in your office, see who opens it, there you go. We have two evidently. Just so people know here is what it looks like...
Evidently it's know as the Goner virus (actually a worm) and comes with the attachment "Gone.scr" just so people know.... |
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