Re: [silk] The 50 most powerful people in India

2007-08-14 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 14/08/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or rather, Businessweek's take on the same, mirroring other such efforts by, most notably, _India Today_. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/08/0813_india50/index_01.htm Let the arguments begin. g What an utterly ridiculous list :)

Re: [silk] The 50 most powerful people in India

2007-08-14 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Let the arguments begin. g As Shiv would put it, the writer is a blithering idiot. Sorry for stealing your limelight, Shiv.

[silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Robert Frost once claimed that poetry would begin in delight and end in wisdom. I read a very interesting paper by (most probably, a different) Robert Frost that I thought might be made to fit this sniff test. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/frost/ beginning Rearchitecting

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Lawnun
I just skimmed the article, but how is this really all that new? The idea of record-label free distribution has been done at least since 1997 [1], to varying [2] degrees [3] of success. [4] In the States, it was quite a big deal when the rock group Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sold over 200k albums

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Ingrid
*another model:* *Amiestreet* http://www.amiestreet.com/ (www.amiestreet.com) , where every song starts off free, just closed a Series A financing round led by Amazon.com. The amount of Amazon's investment hasn't been disclosed, but it's an interesting development in the online music arena.

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Casey O'Donnell
ending A key assumption in this presentation is that the costs associated with the current model of oligopolistic intermediation ­ as well as the artist lock–in that is its consequence ­ is at the root of the crisis in music distribution. /ending Certainly an interesting read. While I

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-14 Thread Casey O'Donnell
While I definitely agree that online media distribution is going to be quite big as time goes on. But isn't it also being sectioned off by the same people already with stakes in it? Looking at most online distribution systems for games, that is certainly the case. I'm also think about

Re: [silk] The 50 most powerful people in India

2007-08-14 Thread shiv sastry
Udhay Shankar N wrote:   Let the arguments begin. g As Shiv would put it, the writer is a blithering idiot. Sorry for stealing your limelight, Shiv. Because VSNL needs Internet Explorer ONLY for all online work to function seamlessly, I failed to renew my VSNL account online and my

Re: [silk] New Yorker book review re: partition

2007-08-14 Thread shiv sastry
Found this in the archives Ingrid Srinath asked: On 8/12/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for posting this. There are some minor factual inaccuracies, but I write to express my delight at seeing the author echo something that I have felt and stated in various places -

[silk] Inorganic life

2007-08-14 Thread Thaths
via bOingbOing Original paper: http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/9/8/263/njp7_8_263.html Press release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/iop-mb081007.php It might be life, Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with lifelike qualities Inorganic life Could