GooTube’s got company December 22, 2006
Posted by mwj as art, business, media, politics, technology. 2 comments.
Something new in the blagosphere? Lulu.tv and Lulu.com are offering free, on-demand video and book publishing, and the author keeps 80% of the profits. For any print publishing, this is based off of the number of sales (which, I assume, are made one at a time - how much quality they sacrifice for cheap one-off printing costs I don’t know). For the videos, they promise 80% of the ad revenue generated by video views goes to the person who uploaded it. I don’t know what sort of algorithm they’ve got rigged up for that one, but with a little bit cleaner and tighter presentation on their .tv site, I think they could give the new big kid on the block a run for their video advertising dollars.
warcraft, death and fictive kinship groups December 12, 2006
Posted by mwj as art, death, games, religion, technology, world of warcraft. 2 comments.
Assuming that what Stan says is true, there is a place for bonding in World of Warcraft (WoW). A very real place, since the average amount of time spent in the game by each of its >7 million subscribers is around 2 hours a day.
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