Jake, just shut up. ..you had me at 'hello'.
On Dec 28, 2007 3:39 PM, Jake Ludington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > They care about crushing distributed media, just as power companies > > care about crushing distributed power. > > > We are here because we believe in distributed media. > > Please do not use the universal 'We' to sum up everyone on the list. I'm > here to get help with videoblogging and help others. My beliefs have > nothing > to do with my participation/lurking on the list. > > > > We're not targets at a personal level. We're targets at a conceptual > > level. And the corporate media is coming after the concept of > > distributed media. > > I get contacted regularly by people in mainstream media companies who want > my involvement in projects because of my background in independent online > publishing. They aren't trying to target anything conceptual that I'm > doing; > they want to understand it. Corporate media is trying to figure out how to > embrace what the little guy is doing in a way that maintains their > relevance > while not eroding shareholder value in the process. > > > > If I had to guess, I'd say their going have their way with net > > neutrality, flood the tubes with content then price us out of the > > game. That way they get us to put our money into their wallets and we > > just go away. > > That must be why NYTimes.com decided to offer their product for free - to > flood the tubes and make us go away; not because they realized they could > make more money doing things the way indie publishers were already having > success. > > > Jake Ludington > > http://www.jakeludington.com > >
