idea, I think, to have candidates’ views appear in articles published in various media, and Ralph Nader makes some interesting points in a Wired News article on telecom policy. At the same time though it demonstrates one of Nader’s key problems (and it has been a problem for him for 30 years). He can’t see the forest for the trees. He gets so bogged down in minutia that he neglects to mention the key point – that the Clinton/Gore administration has a lot to answer for regarding the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.
I’m absolutely convinced
that publications that place their editorial material online stand a much greater chance of increasing their subscription and newsstand revenue. I don’t have a lot of firm data to support my point of view, but I have lots of experience – I’ve been involved in publishing original material online for over 6 years now. And the only conclusion I can reach is that if the media are different, alternative channels support each other, they don’t undercut one another.
In Wired News today there’s an article that looks at magazines who don’t have much of an online presence: Publishing Without a Net. It’s interesting to read alternative views to my own.
With all
this seemingly useless tech appearing in people’s mail with their Wired subscriptions, I think the cosmos is issuing a call to artistic action. Perhaps some evil genius can hack together an alternative use for the barcode reader, or a sculptor would enjoy using a mountain of them for some artistic purpose. Hmmm.
People seem pretty
outraged about this story from Wired News: Online Prices Not Created Equal. If only such outrage were brought to pricing issues in the offline world. For years poverty activists have decried grocery stores’ pricing practices – for instance charging higher prices in poor neighbourhoods than in wealthy ones for groceries. Different people have always received different prices, depending on the store. Amazon is just bringing an old practice to a new world. I can’t get that worked up about it.
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