Let me begin by saying that a recent lecture by Jawed Karim, the until recently silent founder of YouTube, is a great listen for anyone interested in how startups really start up. The talk involves are very well-spoken pursuit of the larger context in which YouTube (and online video sharing sites) rested, in an attempt [...]

Looks like other tech blogs have picked up on my the meme highlighting the dominant hollywod strategy for do new media deals. TechDirt wonders if its more than sour grapes that leads copyright holders to announce to the world the threat of lawsuits before cutting deals with folks like YouTube. Mashable wonders if TimeWarner is [...]

Startups interested in anything media/entertainment sit in this unfortunate purgatory. No one will do a deal with you until you are huge. You get huge by enabling people to do things they couldn’t do before… which usually means bending/breaking/discovering the law. Mr. Cohen has hit the nail on the head on this one, in his [...]

For quite some time now, the so-called digerati have been trash talking the “old media” by highlighting the threat of people-powered, or distributed news production. You might call this form of news “power to the people with video cameras.” For the most part however, the impact of this newfound capacity to not only produce, but [...]