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Monday, June 10, 2002 |
Lou Josephs runs a weblog about media. He's based in washington, and reports rumours of Bob Pittman replacing Disney ceo Michael Eisner. What the heck is going on behind the scenes in the entertainment industry? If there really is a coup d'etas at Disney, it would certainly mean big trouble for some of the company's assets, like say, the ABC Television Network.
I agree with Steve MacLaughlin, "It's all gonna come crashing down." I doubt accounting irregualrities, greed and lies are exclusive to the oil and telecoms business. Anderson did the books for plenty of media companies.
In case hollywood hasn't noticed yet, the internet's distribution capabilities aren't your biggest worry, right now email, weblogs and mobile phones are unearthing all your secrets and writing the screenplay to BigMedia's demise.
I think we'll witness one more sickening drop on the markets and some true panic as some Bigs fom other industries keel over.
These are of course, the best of times to start new ventures based on infrastructure left in the ashes.
9:22:20 PM 
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I'm trying out slam's new activeRender beta. Now the state of my outline's nodes are preserved when upstreamed. awesome! I totally rely on outlines for my radio show, makes production a snap, especially with a live show where the rundown can change at any time.
8:26:51 PM
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WiFi, it's a wave you just can't duck away from. I don't know if Furrier will be able to make money on this, but I sure hope so. And that he shares his technology so it can be adapted widely. With enough nodes the networks can be meshed. I believe this is one way local broadband flow will be created without the local telcos. Time to bring back mbone!
8:10:52 PM
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All the papers in Holland today are running a story about the "American Services Members' Protection Act" that enables the US to invade the Netherlands in order to 'free' any US serviceman/woman from the internationally recognized war tribunal in The Hague. I'm looking for information on this Act as well as any english reporting on the topic. The US ambassador probably will be summoned to meet with the new dutch cabinet this afternoon.
The whole thing seems pretty bizarre and not very ally-like, since the dutch just decided last week to invest $800 million in the US Joint Strike Fighter project last week. Of course this could be a bit of an over reaction. But maybe not.
From what I've gathered so far, the US doesn't, or won't reecognize the international war tribunal, which is set to become official in July. This is the same court that has been prosecuting Milosevic for war crimes.
12:27:33 PM
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Dave Winer and I have been talking about audio blogs and how to set them up so that publishing an audio post will be as simple as a written weblog post.
We both agree that the telephone is the obvious interface for this, but we need a service that handles the audio.
The hardest part is not sounding like an idiot when doing a solo-post. I can see interviews working much better.
Anyway, I gave it a shot at about 1:30am and couldn't get it into an mp3, but if you're interested, check out the .au Audio Blog Post (about 800k) let me know what you think.
11:52:34 AM
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