http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/17451715249/how-should-law-enforcement-handle-being-filmed-officer-lyons-provides-perfect-example.shtml#c312 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:30:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/17451715249/how-should-law-enforcement-handle-being-filmed-officer-lyons-provides-perfect-example.shtml#c312
m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/17451715249/how-should-law-enforcement-handle-being-filmed-officer-lyons-provides-perfect-example.shtml#c295 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:27:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/17451715249/how-should-law-enforcement-handle-being-filmed-officer-lyons-provides-perfect-example.shtml#c295 police@ci.oceanside.ca.us

you know, just to keep the phones reserved for emergency purposes.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/16364214774/did-universal-music-declare-50-cents-own-website-is-pirate-site.shtml#c18 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:49:13 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110620/16364214774/did-universal-music-declare-50-cents-own-website-is-pirate-site.shtml#c18
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/50cent.com+thisis50.com/

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/13281714462/can-we-kill-off-this-myth-that-internet-is-wild-west-that-needs-to-be-tamed.shtml#c252 Fri, 27 May 2011 21:02:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/13281714462/can-we-kill-off-this-myth-that-internet-is-wild-west-that-needs-to-be-tamed.shtml#c252
... i'm paraphrasing, of course.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/06120614452/microsoft-blaming-piracy-rather-than-basic-economics-its-struggles-china.shtml#c150 Fri, 27 May 2011 11:00:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110527/06120614452/microsoft-blaming-piracy-rather-than-basic-economics-its-struggles-china.shtml#c150
"i came down with a runny nose and now it's gone and given me a cold!"

silly people. treat the cause, not the symptom.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110426/01142914031/beastie-boys-embrace-many-different-platforms-leaking-own-album.shtml#c89 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:03:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110426/01142914031/beastie-boys-embrace-many-different-platforms-leaking-own-album.shtml#c89
amusingly enough, one of my favorite albums of all time is the beastles by dj bc.

http://www.djbc.net/beastles/

root down reprise absolutely, unequivocally rocks.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110422/15563714005/if-you-cant-understand-difference-between-money-content-you-have-no-business-commenting-business-models.shtml#c1229 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:46:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110422/15563714005/if-you-cant-understand-difference-between-money-content-you-have-no-business-commenting-business-models.shtml#c1229
on the other hand, allow me to introduce to you a couple terms that the game industry has coined that you may be interested in: ARPU and ARPPU.

please also note: zynga gives away all their games for free -- yep. you can play any of their games you want absolutely free of charge. and, indeed, they earned $400 million in profit on $850 million in revenues in 2010 -- on free games.

and i know what you're thinking. they keep costs low through slave labor... yer totally right: http://www.zynga.com/jobs/other.php

even crazier? they're not the only company doing this. not by a long shot.

all this for free, as in F. R. E. E.

wake up.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110422/15563714005/if-you-cant-understand-difference-between-money-content-you-have-no-business-commenting-business-models.shtml#c1175 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:40:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110422/15563714005/if-you-cant-understand-difference-between-money-content-you-have-no-business-commenting-business-models.shtml#c1175
so, go ahead and look through your referrer logs. or, since you're on wordpress.com, your stats page ( http://jamesgannon.ca/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats ) in the bottom, right-hand corner.

no, it's okay. go ahead and look. we'll all wait.

...

now, you're going to tell us that all those sites who are linking to you? 51% of them asked your permission to link to your site first?

really?

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110414/03054913891/yet-another-study-shows-that-students-inherently-know-that-file-sharing-is-not-theft.shtml#c1098 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:43:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110414/03054913891/yet-another-study-shows-that-students-inherently-know-that-file-sharing-is-not-theft.shtml#c1098
it could be that entertainment-based content creation -- music, storytelling, plays, performances, etc. -- have historically (aka previous to the 20th century) all been service-based.

perform, or you don't get paid. is that really so different?

to all intents and purposes, the boxing and selling of ideas is a relatively new concept. the boxing and selling of the distribution methods, however, is totally different. conceptually, there's no difference between pages in a book and bandwidth over the wire. they are vessels to deliver ideas.

you can sell access to the idea, not the idea itself, because there's no inherent scarcity in ideas. only in the delivery method.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110414/03054913891/yet-another-study-shows-that-students-inherently-know-that-file-sharing-is-not-theft.shtml#c265 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:36:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110414/03054913891/yet-another-study-shows-that-students-inherently-know-that-file-sharing-is-not-theft.shtml#c265
all these startup hackers and next-gen business folks.

you may have heard of a few of these poor, destitute companies getting ripped off... twitter, facebook, groupon, zynga, etc. all started by people who were probably still in college during the time of napster.

that'll learn them!

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c389 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:49:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c389
http://socialtimes.com/online-overtakes-newspaper-ad-revenue-so-does-google_b32140

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c366 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:38:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c366
two things:

1) you must be thinking per unique page view or something. that's a super tiny, completely unsustainable number. that's closer to arpdau vs arpu.

2) your comment doesn't even make sense. so ad rates 4 years ago were 100x more than today? wow. no wonder newspapers are going to hell. ad inventory is selling for a penny on the dollar today compared to 4 years ago!

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c353 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:31:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c353
you should have a dedicated "free faq" page linked from the navigation. it could talk about infinite goods and definitions of monopolies and all kinds of core knowledge a lot of these commenters are missing.

you could even use it as a link-to jump-point sort of thing that points to your past posts on the topics.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c265 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:33:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110330/03151513693/news-corp-claims-79000-subscribers-to-its-paywall-times.shtml#c265 http://publishing2.com/2007/07/17/newspaper-online-vs-print-ad-revenue-the-10-problem/

ahem. so. that means....

pre-paywall monthly ad revenue:
ads: $3.50 arpu x 21,000,000 users = $73,500,000
total: $73,500,000 revenue per month.

post-paywall monthly ad revenue:
ads: $7.00 arpu (more valuable!) x 3,000,000 = $21,000,000
subs: $1,000,000
total: $22,000,000 revenue per month.

genius move!

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110321/00183913568/best-selling-author-turns-down-half-million-dollar-publishing-contract-to-self-publish.shtml#c544 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:21:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20110321/00183913568/best-selling-author-turns-down-half-million-dollar-publishing-contract-to-self-publish.shtml#c544
createspace.com for example:
https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/

all the services you might need, ala carte, as you need them. and at very reasonable prices.

those dinosaurs are about to get eaten alive by a plethora of quick, nimble author services centers.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110315/02072513497/bon-jovi-thinks-steve-jobs-killed-music-more-old-rockers-shooing-those-darn-kids-off-their-lawn.shtml#c753 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:24:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110315/02072513497/bon-jovi-thinks-steve-jobs-killed-music-more-old-rockers-shooing-those-darn-kids-off-their-lawn.shtml#c753
m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110302/01504713321/more-authors-realizing-they-can-make-damn-good-living-self-releasing-super-cheap-ebooks.shtml#c740 Wed, 9 Mar 2011 13:25:08 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110302/01504713321/more-authors-realizing-they-can-make-damn-good-living-self-releasing-super-cheap-ebooks.shtml#c740
however, buying books on the kindle? it's a frictionless, awesome system that helps you find and one-click purchase content you want as well as help you find additional content you might like. it just works. and works well.

it's quick, painless easy and absolutely, without a shred of doubt worth at least $0.99.

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110213/21444113073/when-musicians-get-excited-about-remixes-cool-things-happen-jay-z-nick-drake-jason-parker-do-jazz.shtml#c88 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:59:45 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110213/21444113073/when-musicians-get-excited-about-remixes-cool-things-happen-jay-z-nick-drake-jason-parker-do-jazz.shtml#c88
instant fan!

m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/04221613023/once-again-if-you-dont-offer-authorized-versions-released-content-dont-be-surprised-if-people-get-unauthorized-copies.shtml#c454 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:56:31 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/04221613023/once-again-if-you-dont-offer-authorized-versions-released-content-dont-be-surprised-if-people-get-unauthorized-copies.shtml#c454
m3mnoch.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/04221613023/once-again-if-you-dont-offer-authorized-versions-released-content-dont-be-surprised-if-people-get-unauthorized-copies.shtml#c168 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:20:41 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/04221613023/once-again-if-you-dont-offer-authorized-versions-released-content-dont-be-surprised-if-people-get-unauthorized-copies.shtml#c168
m3mnoch.

p.s. well, love, not "in-love." ewwww....]]>