Chris Anderson has an interesting post, A Billion Dollar Question, about the impact of distribution bottlenecks on satisfying the latent… Read More »Snipped Tails and and Bottlenecks

Looking back at last week’s discussions of the Apple iPod with Josh Wright and other TOTMers, I think the debate could be boiled down into two “boundary maintenance” strategies. They wanted to remind me that, before I make “economic arguments,” I need to be aware of certain economic literatures. I responded that a) that what they call “economics” I tend to think of as one kind of economics and b) these economic literatures may not be relevant to the disputes at hand–i.e., that IP expertise was more useful here than economic expertise. Having just attended an IP conference, let me expand that point in a few ways…Read More »Debate as Boundary Maintenance

In today’s NYT, Verlyn Klinkenborg takes a look at that “thing” called television: Think of all the devices we carry… Read More »That Thing Called Television

Ah, the perils of being offline! As I’ve been traveling to (and attending) a wonderful IP conference at Berkeley, there… Read More »Massive Attack