I’ve been meaning to blog on this for some time now. Introduction of ISP law in Malaysia? The music industry is missing the point again (yawn..) and I have to question the wisdom of their leadership. The best way to fight piracy is to find a way of benefitting from the velocity of music online.
It’s vital to our economy that we bump up internet penetration. ISP’s need new customers to keep their traffic flowing (there is a counter argument to this; on how ISP’s benefit from piracy online and thus owe their entire business model to the music industry).
Similar laws passed in other countries haven’t been all too successful either, and ISP’s have more issues to deal with than playing cop for an industry that continuously resists innovation and the opportunity to reinvent itself. RIM should be focusing on re-educating its members on the digital economy rather than trying to protect its legacy business models. And if it fails, then just like any other legacy model, it shold be allowed to die so that a new model can be built in its place. Its purely about economics.
What I’m not certain is whether or not the local music industry has the kind of thought leaders needed to reinvent itself. That is the problem, not consumer behavior.
i wrote the following as an ed note for Buletin Popek.
The blogosphere is an interesting space. Those who refer to it as an alternative to mainstream media are missing the point. We are a generation rethinking information networks, creating what in a few generations will be mainstream media, itself exposed to its own challenges and limitations, only to be rethought again and again and again… The redeeming factor is that we are collectively advancing society by ensuring that information finds more efficient ways of doing what it does best…. spread.
PopTeeVee will be one year old in June. Our belief that ‘information needs to be free, information wants to be free’, feels much stronger and relevant today than when we first thought it up almost a year ago. So much information lives within the blogosphere, and while it is free for the most part (ever heard of a subscription based blog?) - fulfilling the first part of the equation - the sheer volume of information out there (a lot of it rubbish too, we should add) is daunting. It can’t be so free if one has to work so hard to find it.
Thinking about it further, we start to see that the blogosphere is really a form of crowd-sourced news-wire. What’s really going for it is that there is more journalism happening on blogs than in news rooms. If it is indeed a news wire of sorts, why aren’t newsrooms accessing the wealth of journalism it generates?
And so we have Buletin Popek, an idea still in development. It’s about finding the best bits of relevant news items on the BlogWire and creating a weekly (eventually to be daily) news program of the internets, by the internets, for the internets.
We welcome any feedback (please add to the comments section below) and hope to crowdsource the production of Buletin Popek. Scouring blogs, creating copy, voicing the puppets (yes, more to come) are just some of the roles that can be crowdsourced.
Thanks for joining us on the journey so far.
Here’s to One Malaysia, wherever you are.
a couple weeks back i posted this on my facebok thought stream
Hardesh Singh Proton should concentrate on developing low-cost electric vehicles for the masses. Why do we keep missing opportunities?? http://tinyurl.com/b7drdb
About the same time, this story developed linking Proton with Detroit Electric. The name rang a bell, I checked my delicious tags and was lead back to a feature Wired ran back in Mar ‘08. Read about Zap Corporation and the apparent scam in developing low-cost electric vehicles for the North American market. Detroit Electric and Albert Lam, both connected to the Proton deal, are mentioned in the article. specifically on page 7.
Will Proton be the next Hype Machine?
Rahman
Abdul Razak
Hussein Onn
Mahathir
Abdullah
Nizar
….there is still hope.
* yes, i know it’s
Mohammad Nizar. There may be one aspect to this prophecy overlooked thus far. It was after all
Abdul Rahman.
One quick look and you’d probably think this is an AirAsia ad. Look again.
MAS banners have previously been blue-ish, as far as I recall. Will a major company with a global brand sacrifce its brand-ident to steal away customers from its competition? And how far would they go? The layout looks unmistakably AirAsia. Looks to me like a desperate attempt.
Here is an AirAsia screen grab I took sometime back for an entry I was intending to post but never did (can you spot what’s odd about it?)
Of course, the red may just be a temporary campaign for the Chinese New Year period. Still..
ok, im a little late getting in on this argument, but i intend to seal it ;)
boycotts dont work, we cant be so stupid to think that they do. not going to Mc’D today becuase you want them to know your stand?…well, its not like they were expecting you in the first place, were they? my, they must be so upset.
instead, go! and go with as many friends as you can. order as much as you want. more than you can eat. go nuts. when the order arrives, just turn around and walk away. now you’ve made your stand.
Thank you!
Via Reuters
The Supreme Court in Australia’s capital Canberra has ruled that Facebook is a sufficient way of serving legal documents to defendants who cannot be found.
Link
the give away?
In fact she also changed her network from Maxis to Digi
only someone working for telco would bother with such specifics. but i may be wrong.
—- On Fri, 11/28/08, xxxxx xxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com> wrote:
From: Alice Chang <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.com>
Subject: FW: MUST READ..real shocking……
To:
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 2:38 PM
Very Shocking…. .
This is a real story of a young college girl who passed away last month in Penang . Her name was Ai Ling. She was hit by a truck.
She was working in a call center. She had a boy friend named Tony.
Both of them were true lovers. They always talked on the phone. She used to be never found without her handphone.
In fact she also changed her network from Maxis to Digi, so that both of them can be on the same network, and save on the cost. Even when Tony left overseas to finish his masters, they constantly kept in touch.
She used to spend half of the day talking with Tony.
Ai Ling’s family knew about their relationship.. Tony was very close to Ai Ling’s family as well. (Just
imagine their love) . Before she passed away she always told her friends ‘If I pass away please burn me with my handphone’ she also said the same thing to her parents.
After her death, people couldn’t carry her body, A lot of them tried to do so, but still cant everybody that had tried to carry the body, the results were the same.
Eventually, they called a person known to one of their neighbors, who can speak with the soul of dead person and who was a friend of her father.
He took a stick and started speaking to himself slowly.
After a few minutes, he said ‘this girl misses something here.’ Then her friends told that person about her intentions to burn her with her phone.
He then opened the grave box and place her phone and sim card inside the casket. After that they tried to carry the body. It was then moved easily and they then carried her into the van.
All of us were shocked. Ai Ling’s parents did not inform Tony that Ai Ling had passed away as they’re waiting for him to come home after his graduation..
After 2 weeks Tony returned and called Ai Ling’s mom…….
Tony:….’Aunty, I’m coming home today. Cook something nice for me. Don’t tell Ai Ling that I’m coming home today, I wanna surprise her.’
Her mother replied….. ‘come home first, I wanna tell you something very important.’
After he came, they told him the truth about Ai Ling.
Tony thinks that they were playing a fool. He was laughing and said ‘don’t try to fool me - tell Ai Ling to come out, I have a gift for her… Please stop this nonsense’.
Then they show him the original death certificate to him. They gave him proof to make him believe. (Tony started to sweat) He said… ‘Its not true. We spoke yesterday.. She still calls me.
Tony was shaking.
Suddenly, Tony’s phone rang. ‘see this is from Ai Ling, see this….’ he showed the phone to Ai Ling’s family. all of them told him to answer. he talked using the loudspeaker mode.
All of them heard his conversation. It is the actual voice of Ai Ling & there is no way others could use her sim card since it is nailed inside the grave box!
They were so shocked and asked for the same person’s (who can speak with the soul of dead persons) help again. He brought his master to solve this matter.
He & his master worked for 5 hours. Then they discovered one thing which really shocked them….
Digi ‘I will follow you!!!’
Don’t shout at me I am also looking for the person who has sent me this mail….so what you can do…you should also forward this mail to all your buddies…and enjoy…like I enjoyed. HAHAHAHAHA…
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