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...future, one way forward for the broadcast networks is to capitalize on certain Internet websites as fee-paying distributors. Just as cable providers and satellite-television companies pay carry fees to producers of content, Internet entrepreneurs could arrange local advertising or subscription services that would allow them to pay content creators for certain programming. Websites with a -large number of active users, such as Facebook, would become the new Comcast. Networks would thus pass the problem of garnering advertising revenue on to the new websites, who are already actively struggling to find a solution. With such alluring content, even that...
...products has been not to expand accessibility and profit, but to clamp down on it. Consider Viacom’s legal showdown with YouTube. And has Disney confused itself with DeBeers? The profound shortage of common sense in such moves—given that the fundamental driver of a content creator’s success is the size of its audience—is reflected in the black market’s vibrancy: Not more than half an hour after their original broadcast on the East Coast, most shows are uploaded across the Internet...
...claims at a “Guide,” it never actually commits to directing the reader one way or another. His book is designed to amuse, not to inform. Early on, Codrescu expresses a desire to generate Imagination Units (IUs), ideas which will thrive long after the content of the book has melted from the reader’s mind. The idea, while appropriate in the context of Dada, seems misapplied in his work which, however whimsical, relies on specifics more than style. Ultimately, Codrescu’s “Guide” stumbles...
...project is the brainchild of Google, which hopes to both foster online classical-music communities and cement YouTube's reputation as a repository for quality content. After dreaming up the idea in late 2007, Google approached prominent musicians and ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra and Tilson Thomas, a new-media pioneer in his work with the San Francisco and New World Symphonies...
...Cambridge Trans Fat Task Force, the decision to ban artificial trans fat was based on scientific evidence linking trans fat to many health problems—including diabetes, heart disease, and obesity—as well as the desire to protect consumers, who may not know the trans fat content of meals prepared outside the home...