Category Archives: commerce
links for 2007-11-08: The piracy paradox
The Piracy Paradox James Surowiecki argues that creative industries with weak IP regimes do not stifle innovation; copying of eg. high fashion clothing stimulates demand for the “real thing”… (tags: newyorker design IP copyright innovation Economics James-Surowieki)
BibliOdyssey’s Coffee Table Venture
If you haven’t been enjoying peacay’s plunges into the archives of the various museums and libraries of the world, bringing obscure and fascinating eye candy to the eager masses, then you just haven’t been paying attention. Now there is a … more…
links for 2007-09-24: strike-bike
strike-bike In the market for a bicycle? A factory in Nordhausen, Germany is being occupied and run by its workforce along anarcho-syndicalist lines, after the plutocrats pulled out. They’re taking orders. (tags: politics bicycles germany anarchism)
links for 2007-09-04: Rick Rubin, anti-nazi clowns
Rick Rubin – New York Times “Either all the record companies will get together or the industry will fall apart… the future technology companies will either wait for the record companies to smarten up, or they’ll let them sink until … more…
world of anarchie
Susan Archie is the design genius behind nearly all the best box sets that have been released in the last ten years or so. Seriously: all the various Revenant boxes, the Albert Ayler box, the Charley Patton box, the Beefheart … more…
handsoap
handsoap Ew! (via blort)
links for 2007-08-11: booksellers, Gilles Deleuze
Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers – and small publisher sticks it to the man. (tags: australia books commerce publishing) L’Abecedaire de Gilles Deleuze, with Claire Parnet (tags: philosophy theory deleuze)
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom
Out of the Theater, Into the Courtroom – washingtonpost.com 19-year old student makes twenty-second clip of Transformers movie, is busted: Sejas was enjoying the movie so much that she decided to film a short clip of the sci-fi adventure’s climax … more…
Intel Inside: musical meanings in an ad and a jingle
Here’s an example of one of the ways that YouTube should be genuinely valuable: in decoding and deconstructing propaganda. This particular instance, a thirty second ad for the Pentium processor from 1995, examines the jingle especially closely. (via Madame Lévy)
Aberystwyth
I’ve rooted this postcard out of the dusty place, and made a fresh scan. I didn’t find out, on my recent trip to those parts, whether it it still for sale in the tourist shops. I do hope so. Certainly … more…