Economics of Content in 2009

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Rage Against the Machine are the Christmas number one in the UK, in and of itself this is nothing new. Random online campaigns have pushed old and random artists towards the top of the charts since they started counting downloads in with hardcopy sales. The real interest comes when you start to look at the finance.



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Digital Divide

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Originally posted in Connect World

The digital divide is not just a problem in emerging economies. In rural regions throughout the developing world, indeed wherever service providers are not convinced they will get a reasonable return on their investment, they do not build the broadband Internet networks needed for full participation in the Information Society. The EU established universal service obligations (USOs), but they only call for telephone service and they discourage the development by local governments and private partners of viable USO alternatives.
 


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Woops there goes anther government target...

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It seems like the government is about to loose on yet another one of its targets, not because of an underground movement of like minded Individuals or the fiendish plans of a terrorist organisation but rather from the side effect of a Norwegian software developers' goal of increased download performance for users of their webbrowser.



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The EU election results

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Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte.

Pastor Martin Niemöller


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