Many years ago (almost five years ago in fact) I wrote an article about what the music industry might look like in a digital distributed world.
My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail, bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their fans much easier. In effect, [...]
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What The iPad Means For Media Distribution In The Future
January 31st, 2010 |
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Dec. 10, 1944: Web Visionary Passes Into Obscurity
December 10th, 2009 |
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1944: His dream of a global interlinked “web” of documents lying in ruins, information-science pioneer Paul Otlet dies.
The Belgian bibliographer’s grand scheme to organize the world’s information made him the aspiring Google of his day, but his sprawling card catalog and decimal classification system proved woefully inadequate to the task.
Some historians see in Otlet’s [...]