I may get flamed for this, but I read the Wash Post article and came away thinking, where the hell was the business model? Heck yeah I enjoy Pandora, I can listen to Ry Cooder and stuff like him all day.
But Westergren chose to take VC money, and so took something really cool and had to figure out how to make it a business. Crying about satellite and over the air radio misses the point -- what entrenched business is EASY to take on?
Compare Pandora to iTunes -- love or hate, they thought it through, changed the industry and single-handedly brought back the single. And will eventually be a conduit straight from artist to consumer, bypassing the labels.
When you run to Congress to save you, you're cooked. Too bad the Post article couldn't raise any of these issues. I'll get a post up about this eventually: http://cparente.wordpress.com/
There are loads of details to be worked out, and even when that happens there won't be a rush for new TLDs. Cost, need to navigatge the arcane ICANN process, responsibility for resolution and lack of pressing need IMO will prevent any significant new TLDs from emerging. Here's a longer take: http://cparente.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/what-the-heck-is-icann-doing-with-domain-names/
Please drop comment if you think I've got it wrong.
I agree with you re the agenda of the piece. I love Kieran's writing in the Register, but was disappointed to see it presented on CircleID, since he's always so hyperbolic.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/2005_the_year_the_us _government_undermined_the_internet/
Regarding ICANN and US Gov't, not so sure. After all their existence is controlled by the Dept. of Commerce. Really hard to suggest that doesn't allow for a lot of influence.
Now, I happen to believe the vast majority of the time that influence is benign, and the government/ICANN does a far better job than the UN ever could or would. But then again I'm American, and we invented the Internet.
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I may get flamed for this, but I read the Wash Post article and came away thinking, where the hell was the business model? Heck yeah I enjoy Pandora, I can listen to Ry Cooder and stuff like him all day. But Westergren chose to take VC money, and so took something really cool and had to figure out how to make it a business. Crying about satellite and over the air radio misses the point -- what entrenched business is EASY to take on? Compare Pandora to iTunes -- love or hate, they thought it through, changed the industry and single-handedly brought back the single. And will eventually be a conduit straight from artist to consumer, bypassing the labels. When you run to Congress to save you, you're cooked. Too bad the Post article couldn't raise any of these issues. I'll get a post up about this eventually: http://cparente.wordpress.com/
There are loads of details to be worked out, and even when that happens there won't be a rush for new TLDs. Cost, need to navigatge the arcane ICANN process, responsibility for resolution and lack of pressing need IMO will prevent any significant new TLDs from emerging. Here's a longer take: http://cparente.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/what-the-heck-is-icann-doing-with-domain-names/ Please drop comment if you think I've got it wrong.
Mart -- you're totally right about Symbian. I made the same point in my blog post. Chris Parente
I agree with you re the agenda of the piece. I love Kieran's writing in the Register, but was disappointed to see it presented on CircleID, since he's always so hyperbolic. http://www.circleid.com/posts/2005_the_year_the_us _government_undermined_the_internet/
Regarding ICANN and US Gov't, not so sure. After all their existence is controlled by the Dept. of Commerce. Really hard to suggest that doesn't allow for a lot of influence.
Now, I happen to believe the vast majority of the time that influence is benign, and the government/ICANN does a far better job than the UN ever could or would. But then again I'm American, and we invented the Internet.