Category Archives: Entertainment

What if Apple ruled the world?

Apple and Adobe have been arguing lately over open standards and the future of the Web. Steve Jobs and Newsvine founder Mike Davidson each have some interesting things to say about the conflict.
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He can win a Putlitzer, but he can’t get his work into Apple’s app store

Cartoonist Mark Fiore this week became the first online-only jour­nal­ist to win a Putlitzer Prize, win­ning the edi­to­r­ial car­toon­ing prize for his work with SFGate. However, when Fiore tried to sub­mit an app to Apple’s online store con­tain­ing the same edi­to­r­ial con­tent, he was rejected. The rea­son? His app con­tained con­tent that, in Apple’s judge­ment, [...]
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Baseball al a carte

Major League Baseball will soon make it possible to stream games to mobile devices for $0.99 apiece. Will this draw more fans back to the grand old game?
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Whither rock ‘n roll?

It’s a lit­tle off-topic for me, but I want to point some lit­tle atten­tion at this speech by Steven Van Zandt, which he gave at SXSW Music in March. In the speech, Van Zandt says that amid all the talk of dis­tri­b­u­tion mod­els, pric­ing and piracy, one aspect of the music busi­ness gets rou­tinely ignored: [...]
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Chance for YouTube fame decreases the more videos you post

A study by Fang Wu and Bernardo Huberman tells us that the most pro­lific posters on video sites like YouTube are less likely to become famous, while the one-shot won­ders are more likely to crack the top-1-percent bracket of YouTube views. Their abstract: A hall­mark of the atten­tion econ­omy is the com­pe­ti­tion for the atten­tion [...]
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