There’s a great white paper the Tesla Motors peeps put together arguing the efficiency of electric plug-in automobiles. Bottom line, see page 7 of the presentation, it’s a heck of a lot more efficient (i.e., cleaner and less expensive) to power (i.e., unit of distance out per unit of energy in) with electric than messing [...]
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Well-To-Wheel
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ENERGY, GEEKDOM, HEH, SHINY on January 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Zero Commission Trading
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, HEH on September 21, 2006 | Comments Off
Just noticed another advertising play. If Zecco works brokerage firms are going to have a hard time figuring where to cut costs. Zecco wants to charge zero commissions for trades, they plan to make up the shortfall by selling advertising. One of the fellows behind Zecco was an early backer of Skype, Morten Lund, Zecco’s [...]
Yield Management
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, REPORTAGE on February 15, 2006 | Comments Off
We’ve been talking about yield management for movie theatres for years. Everyone has said it would never happen. Holy sh*t, the NYT has a piece today with a prediction from AMC: There is no easy fix for industry. But it’s clear that it can’t afford to leave easy money sitting on the table any longer, [...]
Sundance Shorts Are Online
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, HEH on January 23, 2006 | Comments Off
This is cool, Sundance is streaming shorts on the Interweb. From Techweb: The 2006 Sundance Web site underwent a complete overhaul to make navigation easier and to bring the Sundance Film Festival online. Improvements include faster downloads, sharper graphics, an expanded help section, and weather and news updates on the home page. “We’re super excited [...]
Beastie Collaborative Film
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, MUSIC, PEEPS on January 21, 2006 | Comments Off
The Beastie Boys handed out video cameras to 50 fans in the audience for their October 2004 concert at Madison Square Garden. The film, edited up from the 50 loaned cams and a few higher quality cams on stage is being presented tonight at Sundance (Library Center Theatre), the expected release date is March 2006, [...]
Jon Lech Johansen
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, PEEPS, SECURITY & PRIVACY on October 18, 2005 | Comments Off
Jon Lech Johansen (a/k/a DVD Jon) is moving to Cali to work for Michael Robertson. Wired Says: Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met [...]
Bram Cohen
Posted in 24x7 FILM EXPERIMENT, BANDWIDTH, DISTRIBUTION, PEEPS, Vlogs on October 11, 2005 | 6 Comments »
Distributing large files such as the movies we all make has become more efficient thanks to people like Bram Cohen. Bram is the guy behind BitTorrent, a program that enables our audiences to receive our productions whilst reducing the burden on our own bandwidth by sharing the distribution task. BitTorrent is making a bit of [...]
Creative Commons Launches Fund Raising Campaign
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, PARTICIPATORY MEDIA on October 6, 2005 | Comments Off
Time to open our wallets for Creative Commons. Larry Lessig posts: Photo by Kathryn Yu, licensed under by-nc-sa. Today, Creative Commons launches a fund raising campaign. The trigger is some bizarrely complicated requirement of the IRS that nonprofits demonstrate not just support from some large, wise, foundations, but also “public support.†So we’ve got an [...]
Beastie Boys Remix Files
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, MUSIC on August 23, 2005 | Comments Off
The Beastie Boys are offering via free download several a cappella tracks (along with BPM info) for non-commercial remixers. Their instructions: So pull your shit together and make a remix.
Anime Goes BitTorrent
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, GEEKDOM on August 21, 2005 | Comments Off
It used to be that the great thing about the internet was that noone knew you were a dog. Today the great thing is anyone can distribute their content economically and easily, giving audiences the experience they desire, particularly with regard to media content. The New York Times reports ADV Films, the largest distributor of [...]
Music Metabolism
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, MUSIC on August 12, 2005 | Comments Off
Rags Gupta introduced me to a new term, music metabolism, via his blog the other day. Like many, for years I have been thinking about the behavioural aspects of and appetites for music consumption, I’m a bit embarrassed to never have thought to use the term metabolism. Music metabolism is the next big variable. In [...]
Go Long Shorts
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, ECONOMICS & FINANCE, FILM, TV & RADIO on July 12, 2005 | Comments Off
Bill Gurley said a few words re DVD distribution, earnings surprises and disruptive technologies in his Above The Crowd piece DVD Glut today. This seems like a 1980 problem raising its head 25 years late. Methinks he’s correct, it’s not only the “inventory” problem, which can be made to go away pretty easily given widening [...]
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