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CNET Interviews John Perry Barlow

Posted by michael on from the dead-again dept.

slothdog writes: "CNET has published an interview with John Perry Barlow. He talks about the evils of corporate totalitarianism (Microsoft, et al), the tech industry implosion, and the DMCA."

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  1. Re:Articles need to try harder to hit mainstream by leviramsey · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I'm just wondering who benefits from an article of this type - the nerds all know it, the non-nerds won't even understand it.

    I think you've hit the nail on the head. Visitors to Slashdot are pretty uniformly in the techie category. Hell, probably less than 5% of techies (which I'll define loosely as employed in a high-tech field, or pursuing an education in such a field) read Slashdot on any regular basis. ZDNet and CNet might have higher readership, but what percentage of Americans have visted CNet during the past 12 months? Not many.

    Chalk this up as a side effect of the media revolution of the past twenty years: lack of universal media. This is a side-effect of decentralization. With narrowcasting the norm combined with a finite amount of time, the overlap in media consumption between two random people in the USA is apt to be near nil.

    While there is something to be said for the Internet media revolution, I feel sort of wary in trumpeting this as one of them.