Let's compare apples to apples... hundreds of people pitch movie ideas that don't get funded by studios. Effectively this is the same thing. Pitching an idea to a studio on an existing property with an audience is going to have a better chance for success. Pitching it on Kickstarter should likewise have a better chance. Pitching an original idea is more risky and takes more convincing and selling the idea.
Should every idea for a movie receive funding? Probably not, so I think what we need to look at are the rate of "failures" of Kickstarter movies to take off vs. the rate of rejects of scripts from a studio. When they are on par, you've got an equally functional model.
It could also be that the Ad Firm TOLD Facebook that they had sued within the time period and therefore they could keep the material off FB. Meanwhile no lawsuit is filed (yet) and FB doesn't notify the poster about the lawsuit notice because they figure he already got served... Still bad, but a different bad guy.
I think his complaint might be more that no one has presented a new model where all the fat-cat middle men get to keep making their unbalanced slice of the pie. Typically the alternative models are bands directly promoting their music and giving it away and then making money on concerts and physical goods. This lessens or even potentially eliminates the record companies from a lot of where they make their money (as we saw with the Eminem lawsuit).
The problem with these efforts to get kids using technology in the classroom like iPods and CellPhones is that the teacher can't control who has which version and if every kid has one... when you pass out textbooks, you know every kid has one. If you want everyone to use their cell phone to text in their answer to the question, what do you do with the kids whose parents don't want him to have a cellphone yet? Or don't want to pay for texting. Education needs technology the teacher can reliably distribute in class, be trained on and understand, and get consistent results.
Is no bubble automatically a recession, or maybe it's just the 'normal' economy when not influenced by a bubble. We've been bubbling so long we don't know what typical is anymore.
As for the next bubble, think Green... people pouring money into solar and the like seems likely to me.
An industry insider certainly could pose a conflict of interest (not to mention they make more money in the private sector, so why would they?) but what about academia? Hell I'll take a politician that has set up his own home network and can work iTunes (and of course reads techdirt)!
I think the other 1/2 of the flamewar equation is misreading intent. We use a lot of the same social clues to understand what a person is saying. Things like irony are easily lost and misunderstanding of what each side is saying is a frequent supplier of flamewar kindling. So we are angered by what we thought we read and disinhibited in our response.
Come up with a better commercial, and I'll watch it a couple times on the ol' TiVo. Those PC/Mac commercials kill me, and if I spot one, I'll stop and watch it.
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Not Practical?
Let's compare apples to apples... hundreds of people pitch movie ideas that don't get funded by studios. Effectively this is the same thing. Pitching an idea to a studio on an existing property with an audience is going to have a better chance for success. Pitching it on Kickstarter should likewise have a better chance. Pitching an original idea is more risky and takes more convincing and selling the idea.
Should every idea for a movie receive funding? Probably not, so I think what we need to look at are the rate of "failures" of Kickstarter movies to take off vs. the rate of rejects of scripts from a studio. When they are on par, you've got an equally functional model.
Facebook or the Ad Firm?
It could also be that the Ad Firm TOLD Facebook that they had sued within the time period and therefore they could keep the material off FB. Meanwhile no lawsuit is filed (yet) and FB doesn't notify the poster about the lawsuit notice because they figure he already got served... Still bad, but a different bad guy.
No Middle Man Business model
I think his complaint might be more that no one has presented a new model where all the fat-cat middle men get to keep making their unbalanced slice of the pie. Typically the alternative models are bands directly promoting their music and giving it away and then making money on concerts and physical goods. This lessens or even potentially eliminates the record companies from a lot of where they make their money (as we saw with the Eminem lawsuit).
Not going to work for an educational solution
The problem with these efforts to get kids using technology in the classroom like iPods and CellPhones is that the teacher can't control who has which version and if every kid has one... when you pass out textbooks, you know every kid has one. If you want everyone to use their cell phone to text in their answer to the question, what do you do with the kids whose parents don't want him to have a cellphone yet? Or don't want to pay for texting. Education needs technology the teacher can reliably distribute in class, be trained on and understand, and get consistent results.
Next Bubble or no bubble
Is no bubble automatically a recession, or maybe it's just the 'normal' economy when not influenced by a bubble. We've been bubbling so long we don't know what typical is anymore.
As for the next bubble, think Green... people pouring money into solar and the like seems likely to me.
DIY is fine by me
An industry insider certainly could pose a conflict of interest (not to mention they make more money in the private sector, so why would they?) but what about academia? Hell I'll take a politician that has set up his own home network and can work iTunes (and of course reads techdirt)!
What about the cues while reading
I think the other 1/2 of the flamewar equation is misreading intent. We use a lot of the same social clues to understand what a person is saying. Things like irony are easily lost and misunderstanding of what each side is saying is a frequent supplier of flamewar kindling. So we are angered by what we thought we read and disinhibited in our response.
Commercial Rewind
Come up with a better commercial, and I'll watch it a couple times on the ol' TiVo. Those PC/Mac commercials kill me, and if I spot one, I'll stop and watch it.