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What Internet activism looks like

Cory Doctorow at 1:21 PM Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010

Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:

Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.

To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.

And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.

Make The Revolution

Your awkward family photos already make for hilarious comedic relief on the popular blog Awkward Family Photos. Beginning today, those photos will also score you at least 33.3% off your next family vacay to Orlando and potentially much more, as Virgin America has partnered with the meme blog to promote its upcoming new service to Orlando.

Virgin America is encouraging families to upload their most awkward photos to Awkward Family Photos (AFP) for a chance to win four roundtrip tickets to anywhere the airline flies. Submissions will be accepted via AFP and Virgin America’s Facebook Page through Oct 5, at which time the 20 most uncomfortable finalists will be selected and put to a public vote.

AFP voters will decide on the winner of that prize, but one California entrant will also be handpicked by Virgin America and AFP to win an Orlando family getaway including flights and accommodations. “The winners will be whisked in style from Los Angeles onboard Virgin America’s celebratory flight and greeted on arrival in Orlando at a red carpet welcome party hosted by Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson,” according to the announcement.

The grand prizes are enticing, but even if your family’s awkwardness is not the most awkward of all (perhaps a good sign), you can still get the 33.3% family discount (for parties of three to six people) on a Virgin America Orlando flight. The same discount applies to Awkward Family Photos lookie loos who vote on their favorite submissions.

Prizes aside, the Virgin America Orlando promotion is quite interesting given the airline’s unorthodox choice for a contest partner. Instead of a Twitterclass="blippr-nobr">Twitter or class='blippr-nobr'>Facebookclass="blippr-nobr">Facebook-driven campaign, Virgin America is opting to partner with a niche blog for a specialized purpose.

AFP, like many other many meme-oriented blogs and viral sensations, survives by making money through advertising, online stores and book sales. When Internet users vote with their attention, a meme is born. Virgin America appears to see opportunity in affiliating their brand name with an online pop culture phenomena, potentially paving the way for more big brand meme partnerships to come.

At the end of the day, the AFP photo contest is an interesting twist to social advertising and promotion norms that celebrates and supports class='blippr-nobr'>Internetclass="blippr-nobr">Internet memes — what an awkwardly appropriate way to launch a new city.

Image courtesy of Awkward Family Photos

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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What Internet activism looks like

Cory Doctorow at 1:21 PM Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010

Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:

Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.

To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.

And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.

Make The Revolution

Your awkward family photos already make for hilarious comedic relief on the popular blog Awkward Family Photos. Beginning today, those photos will also score you at least 33.3% off your next family vacay to Orlando and potentially much more, as Virgin America has partnered with the meme blog to promote its upcoming new service to Orlando.

Virgin America is encouraging families to upload their most awkward photos to Awkward Family Photos (AFP) for a chance to win four roundtrip tickets to anywhere the airline flies. Submissions will be accepted via AFP and Virgin America’s Facebook Page through Oct 5, at which time the 20 most uncomfortable finalists will be selected and put to a public vote.

AFP voters will decide on the winner of that prize, but one California entrant will also be handpicked by Virgin America and AFP to win an Orlando family getaway including flights and accommodations. “The winners will be whisked in style from Los Angeles onboard Virgin America’s celebratory flight and greeted on arrival in Orlando at a red carpet welcome party hosted by Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson,” according to the announcement.

The grand prizes are enticing, but even if your family’s awkwardness is not the most awkward of all (perhaps a good sign), you can still get the 33.3% family discount (for parties of three to six people) on a Virgin America Orlando flight. The same discount applies to Awkward Family Photos lookie loos who vote on their favorite submissions.

Prizes aside, the Virgin America Orlando promotion is quite interesting given the airline’s unorthodox choice for a contest partner. Instead of a Twitterclass="blippr-nobr">Twitter or class='blippr-nobr'>Facebookclass="blippr-nobr">Facebook-driven campaign, Virgin America is opting to partner with a niche blog for a specialized purpose.

AFP, like many other many meme-oriented blogs and viral sensations, survives by making money through advertising, online stores and book sales. When Internet users vote with their attention, a meme is born. Virgin America appears to see opportunity in affiliating their brand name with an online pop culture phenomena, potentially paving the way for more big brand meme partnerships to come.

At the end of the day, the AFP photo contest is an interesting twist to social advertising and promotion norms that celebrates and supports class='blippr-nobr'>Internetclass="blippr-nobr">Internet memes — what an awkwardly appropriate way to launch a new city.

Image courtesy of Awkward Family Photos

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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What Internet activism looks like

Cory Doctorow at 1:21 PM Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010

Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:

Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.

To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.

And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.

Make The Revolution

Your awkward family photos already make for hilarious comedic relief on the popular blog Awkward Family Photos. Beginning today, those photos will also score you at least 33.3% off your next family vacay to Orlando and potentially much more, as Virgin America has partnered with the meme blog to promote its upcoming new service to Orlando.

Virgin America is encouraging families to upload their most awkward photos to Awkward Family Photos (AFP) for a chance to win four roundtrip tickets to anywhere the airline flies. Submissions will be accepted via AFP and Virgin America’s Facebook Page through Oct 5, at which time the 20 most uncomfortable finalists will be selected and put to a public vote.

AFP voters will decide on the winner of that prize, but one California entrant will also be handpicked by Virgin America and AFP to win an Orlando family getaway including flights and accommodations. “The winners will be whisked in style from Los Angeles onboard Virgin America’s celebratory flight and greeted on arrival in Orlando at a red carpet welcome party hosted by Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson,” according to the announcement.

The grand prizes are enticing, but even if your family’s awkwardness is not the most awkward of all (perhaps a good sign), you can still get the 33.3% family discount (for parties of three to six people) on a Virgin America Orlando flight. The same discount applies to Awkward Family Photos lookie loos who vote on their favorite submissions.

Prizes aside, the Virgin America Orlando promotion is quite interesting given the airline’s unorthodox choice for a contest partner. Instead of a Twitterclass="blippr-nobr">Twitter or class='blippr-nobr'>Facebookclass="blippr-nobr">Facebook-driven campaign, Virgin America is opting to partner with a niche blog for a specialized purpose.

AFP, like many other many meme-oriented blogs and viral sensations, survives by making money through advertising, online stores and book sales. When Internet users vote with their attention, a meme is born. Virgin America appears to see opportunity in affiliating their brand name with an online pop culture phenomena, potentially paving the way for more big brand meme partnerships to come.

At the end of the day, the AFP photo contest is an interesting twist to social advertising and promotion norms that celebrates and supports class='blippr-nobr'>Internetclass="blippr-nobr">Internet memes — what an awkwardly appropriate way to launch a new city.

Image courtesy of Awkward Family Photos

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

eric seiger

Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

eric seiger

Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Making money from blogging is a dream that many people have. This objective is not at all unattainable even if you are someone with just basic writing skills. In fact, becoming a blogger doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a very good writer. It just requires a creative mind set, some consistency and the willingness to work hard. But even though blogging is something that just about anyone can do - not many people have managed to turn blogging into profit.

Most of the people who fail to earn any money from their blogs often fail because of two reasons. They may have had too high of an expectation of how quickly their reader base would grow, and how fast they would be able to start generating profit. When those expectations don't go according to plan, it often kills their motivation to continue blogging, and cause them to give up out of being disappointed.

Another thing that causes a lot of bloggers to windup crashing into the brick wall of frustration - is the lack of proper planning. The key to becoming a successful blogger is to set realistic goals and then patiently start working towards those goals.

In order to start generating earnings from your blog, you will need to drive enough traffic to the content of your site. The greater the amount of traffic you are able to direct, the more chance you will have of getting advertisers to pay you to promoting their ads on your blog. And of course, generating that much traffic is not an easy task - it requires hard work.

There are tons of other sites on the internet and a lot of new ones go up each day. So in order for your site to be found... it's not enough to just focus on the quantity, and the quality of your blog post. You have to use some of the time spent adding content to your site to promote it, so you can start getting the sort of traffic that will earn you money.

It is in fact very important that you consistently update your blog with fresh content. This will ensure you have posts that are frequently indexed into search engines, so your site can continuously receive a steady flow of search engine traffic. But you just have to balance between adding content and promoting your site.

Another great benefit you'll get from constantly updating your blog... it causes you to form a relationship with your readers. And believe you me, if you keep adding quality content to your blog, your readers will always keep coming back each time there is a fresh update to your site.

So if your aim is to start generating earnings from your blog, start by getting to work and do whatever is necessary to attract visitors to your site. Take different promotional steps such as joining blogging communities... get familiarized with other bloggers from those communities. This is so you can exchange links with other bloggers which will help to improve your site's ranking.

It doesn't matter how much internet marketing experience you may have, or how brilliant of an idea you might have for blogging - don't expect to start making money overnight! The process of acquiring the type of reader base that will turn into profit will take time, and requires patience.

So be realistic, don't expect anything significant until after a couple of months of hard work. And don't be deterred when things take a while to take off. Try to maintain your focus and stick to the task of improving and promoting your blog even during those dry spells. Set realistic short term goals and work towards fulfilling them. Eventually if you keep your focus on the goals you have set; your persistence will pay off and cause you to start making money from blogging.


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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Julie Gray: Is Less <b>News</b> Good <b>News</b>?

No news is good news is ignorant bliss, is more hope, more optimism. But if we want to make a change we owe it to ourselves to pay attention to the social, political and economic events.

More Bad <b>News</b> for &#39;Outlaw&#39;

Last week we reported that the new Jimmy Smits series, 'Outlaw,' had been put on production hiatus. NBC execs reportedly decided to wait and see if.

Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 10/11 - Arrowhead Pride

Well, that happened. Good morning Chiefs fans, and welcome to Arrowheadlines. As you'd expect, there are a lot of Kansas City Chiefs stories out there this morning. We've gathered them here for you. Enjoy.

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Yet Another Study Shows Musicians Making More Money

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We've made the argument repeatedly that saying unauthorized file sharing is hurting the music business lacks evidence. Instead, what we've seen, over and over again, is that more money is pouring into the music business, more music is being produced and (most importantly) that more musicians who embrace this new world are doing better than they would have otherwise. Now, we've pointed to research in the UK, Sweden and the US that have all shown aggregate growth for the music business, with some of the numbers suggesting more money going directly to musicians, rather than gatekeepers.



The latest study, highlighted by TorrentFreak takes a similar look at the Norwegian music market to show very similar findings and (of course) that musicians are, indeed, benefiting:



Like the UK and Swedish studies, this study, covering Norway, found that the aggregate amount going to the industry is up slightly (4% in real terms), mostly thanks to live shows more than making up for the decline in music sales (it's important to note that these researchers appear to have modeled their research on both the UK and Swedish studies, and made only slight changes, which they explain (and justify) in the report. The key finding is that musicians appear to be making significantly more these days than in the past:

Total artist revenues have gone from NOK 208 million in 1999 to NOK 545 million in 2009, which is an increase of about 162%. Excluding state subsidization, the income from 1999 to 2009 has increased with NOK 229 million, or 147%....



According to this, Norwegian artists have seen an increase in all four of their income sources during the past eleven years. This goes contrary to the common belief that artists have seen a decline in income because of the digitalization of the industry.



The loss of record sales because of consequences of the digitalization of the industry has not affected the Norwegian artists in the same brutal way as it has the record companies. Artists earn in general 20% or less from record sales, and a decrease in record sales would most likely be compensated by an increase in one or more of the other three income sources.

Now, it's worth pointing out -- as I learned when I attended Nordic Music Week last year -- that the Norwegian music industry is heavily subsidized by the government, which is one of the four revenue streams discussed above. However, that only represents about 30% of artist revenue in 2009. The largest single component -- again similar to what we've seen elsewhere -- is live revenue, which continues to grow. Even if you exclude state subsidies, the report found that Norwegian artists doubled their income in the past 11 years:

Adjusted for inflation, total artist revenue has gone from NOK 255 million in 1999 to NOK 545 million in 2009, an increase of about NOK 290 million or 114%. Excluding state subsidizations, the increase has changed from NOK 192 million to NOK 386 million, which is an increase of NOK 194 million or 101% This goes to show that the artists themselves, as a group, have seen tremendous more growth than the industry as a whole.

And, yes, there are more musicians out there to split the pie, but the growth rate in the industry has increased more quickly than the growth in musicians.

Since the total number of artists in 1999 and 2009 are available to the authors, it is possible to calculate an average income from music for artists in Norway. With 3200 artists in 1999 the average income from music would be about NOK 65 000. With 4100 artists in 2009 the average income from music is about NOK 133 000, creating an increase of NOK 68 000 or 105%. Adjusted for inflation the income has increased with from about NOK 80 000 to NOK 133 000, an increase of NOK 53 000, an increase of 66%.

Overall, the results, like those in Sweden and the UK, seem to clearly debunk the repeated claims from recording industry folks (and some musicians) that artists are somehow suffering under this new setup. Now, there may absolutely be cases where artists who fail to adapt are struggling, and there's no doubt that some labels that failed to adapt are struggling -- but there's increasingly little evidence that the overall music industry or artists as a whole are suffering. All of the evidence seems to suggest that it's not file sharing that's a problem at all. More money is going into the music business. The only problems are from those in the industry too stubborn or too clueless to adapt to capture the money that's flowing in.

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Many of the seemingly divergent problems facing us today have the same fundamental cause: greed.

In both government and corporations -- and even in the nonprofit sector -- the greed of some damages and diminishes all of us while also undermining those very institutions that are supposed to protect us and America itself.

The stakes are too high and the time too fleeting for inaction. It is surprising that charity and foundations officials have not stepped forward and taken leadership to speak with clarity and with force so that truth can be heard and the public galvanized for action toward the common good.

Let's begin with government. By catering to the avarice of some of the wealthiest Americans, many members of Congress reflect their own greed -- to get and hold power they are willing to serve private interests over public ones. As a result, the portion of tax measures that directly benefit the rich may deny the Treasury about a trillion dollars.

Too many elected officials are willing to pay that price to curry favor. Yet, this painful loss of government revenue is little discussed by the vast majority of charity leaders, even those who are finding it impossible to maintain services amid federal and state spending cuts and losses in private donations..

Faced with deficit problems, politicians look reality in the face and then turn to wink at their campaign-financing benefactors. Congress let the estate tax completely expire for 2010, though continuing it at 2009 levels would have affected only the super-super-wealthy -- 99.75 percent of all estates would have remained free of the tax. Billions and billions of dollars ($9 billion in the case of just one Texan) flow entirely to heirs this year, costing the Treasury about $15 billion. This is particularly greedy since much of the privately retained billions comes from unearned investment gains that now will never be taxed.

The repeal of the estate tax was but one of a number of cuts passed during the Bush administration that have hurt people who depend on government programs -- and that means all of us.

President Obama wants to allow those other tax cuts to expire on schedule for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans (those families making more than $250,000 a year) while extending them for everyone else. Many members of Congress, led by the Republicans, would preserve these other tax cuts for the wealthy at a cost of about $680-billion.

In fact, in 2011 alone, a plan promoted by Republicans would provide a $31-billion benefit just to households that already earn more than $1-million a year. Do these millionaires and their political agents really think it justifiable to deny a financially strapped populace the public services that that amount of cash could finance?

A focus on just tax issues is insufficient to fully understand the damage done to even to charities and the people they serve by an unending thirst for greater riches and power. We decry corrupt foreign officials, but seem to see nothing wrong with a Congress in which politicians solicit and accept contributions from the specific corporations they are supposed to oversee and regulate.

More than $2.5-billion was raised in the 2008 elections and more than 75 percent of that came from business. In fact, in their selfish quest for campaign contributions, elected officials fight to get assigned to the committees that regulate corporations with the deepest pockets. There are even "congressional charities" set up by some politicians to extend tax exemptions to their corporate benefactors. As the philanthropist Phil Stern once wrote, we've got the best Congress money can buy.

Corporations appear unconcerned with popular democracy, working instead to elect officeholders who look out for their private interests. The principal purpose of regulations is to protect Americans from dangers imposed by the unbridled pursuit of profit -- be it in our supermarkets and the foods that we eat, in the financial institutions on which we depend for credit and reliable retirement savings, or about what gets used in our homes, workplaces and communities and for our travels between them. Yet, businesses want to roll back oversight and rules.

While many nonprofit organizations work valiantly to strengthen protections in their areas of concern, relatively few charity or foundation leaders demand that this corrosive influence of money in politics be better controlled before this corruption of democracy gets completely out of hand.

Even in the face of global warming, confronted by heat waves, droughts and wild fire conflagrations, by astounding rainfalls and massive floods and landslides, by turmoil on and below our ocean waters, by Code Red alerts for the air we breathe, corporate lobbyists have managed to stop meaningful climate control legislation. Where is the voice of charitable leaders -- not just environmentalists -- to contest this capitulation?

How, in the face of obvious human and planetary disaster, can the greed of corporations for ever-greater profit, and of legislators in protecting their interests, be generally unchallenged by nonprofit leaders?

Those same dynamics of greed have brought us to the edge of economic disintegration and close to a double-dip recession. It was deregulation of banking institutions by Congress in the late 1990s that got us into this crisis, and now we see corporations keeping us in it. Beyond the grossly irresponsible gambling that turned Wall Street into a casino with safe bets for insiders, beyond their lobbyists' efforts to weaken the financial reform legislation recently enacted to help protect us from such behavior, corporations are now holding the economy hostage to their next quarters' profits. In spite of occasional stock market rallies, the economy cannot truly recover without jobs, and they aren't even beginning to offer enough of them

Although corporate profits set an all-time record of $1.37-trillion in the first quarter of this year -- and, astoundingly, they are sitting on $2-trillion in cash -- corporations are not rehiring the more than 8-million workers they laid off in this recession.

With unemployment hovering around 9.5 percent, it is said that corporate leaders are waiting for a more favorable business climate, by which they mean still lower taxes and still more deregulation -- and now they have the Obama administration working on $180-billion in tax cuts to spur hiring.

In effect, corporations are saying, Feed our greed or most Americans will continue to suffer.

And so too will nonprofit organizations. Corporate contributions fell significantly last year, and they are expected to remain flat in 2010 -- so besides holding back on the hiring necessary for economic recovery, they are also shortchanging the charities that are helping the jobless and other Americans in these terribly strained times.

More and more, "corporate philanthropy" seems to be an oxymoron -- their ostensibly philanthropic actions reflect marketing strategies instead of altruistic purposes. Cause-related marketing, profit-generating charitable partnerships, and publicity-seeking crowd-sourced donation programs all benefit corporations more than charities. After they cut a profitable deal with Verizon, we even see the much-heralded public-spirited Google reversing itself on the information age's fundamental social policy of Net neutrality. Again, private greed over public interest.

Greed may be killing the American dream. For about the last four decades, the income of 90 percent of Americans has essentially remained flat, and we are now seeing new generations of Americans actually losing ground, realistically expecting to do worse than their parents no matter how hard they try. During that same time, the income of the super-wealthy has more than tripled. We have seen the wages of CEOs go from 26 times the median income of Americans to more than 300 times that figure.

Most of us, wherever we work, simply acquiesce to what seems the inevitable imperative for greater riches. Too many of us just do what everyone else is doing, just want what everyone else is wanting. Yet we all hold some responsibility for not seeking and speaking truth.

While greed appears endemic in the corporate world and among its political cronies, the nonprofit sector has not been totally spared this insidious dynamic.

Some charity and foundation executives, with the complicity of their board members, have allowed greed to crowd out public service. Outrageous salaries, benefits, and other expenses characterize, although still proportionately few, far too many nonprofit organizations. These selfish practices not only imperil individual organizations but also make vulnerable the entire nonprofit world.

So where does all of this leave us?

We need nonprofit and foundation officials to call us to reject the avalanche of limitless political and corporate greed, first by naming it, then by exposing and helping all to see it, and finally countering it by promoting new public policies and private practices.

Corporations and the politicians they support won't fill this moral void. But the country increasingly is ready for the emergence of new leaders and a reassertion of important American values.

Leadership must come from the charitable and philanthropic community, and it is needed now. It is wrong to abdicate responsibility in fear of complex national and global dynamics and a polarized electorate. Timid or confused silence is not an option for those who assert to represent our better natures; rather, it is an abdication of the fundamental moral and social obligations of the charitable community.

The nonprofit world needs to speak clearly for the common good and to work assiduously toward it. Its organizations need to get beyond their own parochial interests and to find shared purpose across areas of concern. We all suffer at the hands of the greedy in and beyond the ways noted here. By pulling these pieces together, by pulling ourselves together, by showing the greedy for what they really are, we can begin to build a more democratic, caring and equitable society.

Mark Rosenman, a long time nonprofit sector activist and scholar, directs Caring to Change (www.caringtochange.org), a project in Washington that seeks to promote foundation grantmaking for the common good. A version of this piece also appears in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

robert shumake

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Yet Another Study Shows Musicians Making More Money

from the well,-look-at-that dept

We've made the argument repeatedly that saying unauthorized file sharing is hurting the music business lacks evidence. Instead, what we've seen, over and over again, is that more money is pouring into the music business, more music is being produced and (most importantly) that more musicians who embrace this new world are doing better than they would have otherwise. Now, we've pointed to research in the UK, Sweden and the US that have all shown aggregate growth for the music business, with some of the numbers suggesting more money going directly to musicians, rather than gatekeepers.



The latest study, highlighted by TorrentFreak takes a similar look at the Norwegian music market to show very similar findings and (of course) that musicians are, indeed, benefiting:



Like the UK and Swedish studies, this study, covering Norway, found that the aggregate amount going to the industry is up slightly (4% in real terms), mostly thanks to live shows more than making up for the decline in music sales (it's important to note that these researchers appear to have modeled their research on both the UK and Swedish studies, and made only slight changes, which they explain (and justify) in the report. The key finding is that musicians appear to be making significantly more these days than in the past:

Total artist revenues have gone from NOK 208 million in 1999 to NOK 545 million in 2009, which is an increase of about 162%. Excluding state subsidization, the income from 1999 to 2009 has increased with NOK 229 million, or 147%....



According to this, Norwegian artists have seen an increase in all four of their income sources during the past eleven years. This goes contrary to the common belief that artists have seen a decline in income because of the digitalization of the industry.



The loss of record sales because of consequences of the digitalization of the industry has not affected the Norwegian artists in the same brutal way as it has the record companies. Artists earn in general 20% or less from record sales, and a decrease in record sales would most likely be compensated by an increase in one or more of the other three income sources.

Now, it's worth pointing out -- as I learned when I attended Nordic Music Week last year -- that the Norwegian music industry is heavily subsidized by the government, which is one of the four revenue streams discussed above. However, that only represents about 30% of artist revenue in 2009. The largest single component -- again similar to what we've seen elsewhere -- is live revenue, which continues to grow. Even if you exclude state subsidies, the report found that Norwegian artists doubled their income in the past 11 years:

Adjusted for inflation, total artist revenue has gone from NOK 255 million in 1999 to NOK 545 million in 2009, an increase of about NOK 290 million or 114%. Excluding state subsidizations, the increase has changed from NOK 192 million to NOK 386 million, which is an increase of NOK 194 million or 101% This goes to show that the artists themselves, as a group, have seen tremendous more growth than the industry as a whole.

And, yes, there are more musicians out there to split the pie, but the growth rate in the industry has increased more quickly than the growth in musicians.

Since the total number of artists in 1999 and 2009 are available to the authors, it is possible to calculate an average income from music for artists in Norway. With 3200 artists in 1999 the average income from music would be about NOK 65 000. With 4100 artists in 2009 the average income from music is about NOK 133 000, creating an increase of NOK 68 000 or 105%. Adjusted for inflation the income has increased with from about NOK 80 000 to NOK 133 000, an increase of NOK 53 000, an increase of 66%.

Overall, the results, like those in Sweden and the UK, seem to clearly debunk the repeated claims from recording industry folks (and some musicians) that artists are somehow suffering under this new setup. Now, there may absolutely be cases where artists who fail to adapt are struggling, and there's no doubt that some labels that failed to adapt are struggling -- but there's increasingly little evidence that the overall music industry or artists as a whole are suffering. All of the evidence seems to suggest that it's not file sharing that's a problem at all. More money is going into the music business. The only problems are from those in the industry too stubborn or too clueless to adapt to capture the money that's flowing in.

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Many of the seemingly divergent problems facing us today have the same fundamental cause: greed.

In both government and corporations -- and even in the nonprofit sector -- the greed of some damages and diminishes all of us while also undermining those very institutions that are supposed to protect us and America itself.

The stakes are too high and the time too fleeting for inaction. It is surprising that charity and foundations officials have not stepped forward and taken leadership to speak with clarity and with force so that truth can be heard and the public galvanized for action toward the common good.

Let's begin with government. By catering to the avarice of some of the wealthiest Americans, many members of Congress reflect their own greed -- to get and hold power they are willing to serve private interests over public ones. As a result, the portion of tax measures that directly benefit the rich may deny the Treasury about a trillion dollars.

Too many elected officials are willing to pay that price to curry favor. Yet, this painful loss of government revenue is little discussed by the vast majority of charity leaders, even those who are finding it impossible to maintain services amid federal and state spending cuts and losses in private donations..

Faced with deficit problems, politicians look reality in the face and then turn to wink at their campaign-financing benefactors. Congress let the estate tax completely expire for 2010, though continuing it at 2009 levels would have affected only the super-super-wealthy -- 99.75 percent of all estates would have remained free of the tax. Billions and billions of dollars ($9 billion in the case of just one Texan) flow entirely to heirs this year, costing the Treasury about $15 billion. This is particularly greedy since much of the privately retained billions comes from unearned investment gains that now will never be taxed.

The repeal of the estate tax was but one of a number of cuts passed during the Bush administration that have hurt people who depend on government programs -- and that means all of us.

President Obama wants to allow those other tax cuts to expire on schedule for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans (those families making more than $250,000 a year) while extending them for everyone else. Many members of Congress, led by the Republicans, would preserve these other tax cuts for the wealthy at a cost of about $680-billion.

In fact, in 2011 alone, a plan promoted by Republicans would provide a $31-billion benefit just to households that already earn more than $1-million a year. Do these millionaires and their political agents really think it justifiable to deny a financially strapped populace the public services that that amount of cash could finance?

A focus on just tax issues is insufficient to fully understand the damage done to even to charities and the people they serve by an unending thirst for greater riches and power. We decry corrupt foreign officials, but seem to see nothing wrong with a Congress in which politicians solicit and accept contributions from the specific corporations they are supposed to oversee and regulate.

More than $2.5-billion was raised in the 2008 elections and more than 75 percent of that came from business. In fact, in their selfish quest for campaign contributions, elected officials fight to get assigned to the committees that regulate corporations with the deepest pockets. There are even "congressional charities" set up by some politicians to extend tax exemptions to their corporate benefactors. As the philanthropist Phil Stern once wrote, we've got the best Congress money can buy.

Corporations appear unconcerned with popular democracy, working instead to elect officeholders who look out for their private interests. The principal purpose of regulations is to protect Americans from dangers imposed by the unbridled pursuit of profit -- be it in our supermarkets and the foods that we eat, in the financial institutions on which we depend for credit and reliable retirement savings, or about what gets used in our homes, workplaces and communities and for our travels between them. Yet, businesses want to roll back oversight and rules.

While many nonprofit organizations work valiantly to strengthen protections in their areas of concern, relatively few charity or foundation leaders demand that this corrosive influence of money in politics be better controlled before this corruption of democracy gets completely out of hand.

Even in the face of global warming, confronted by heat waves, droughts and wild fire conflagrations, by astounding rainfalls and massive floods and landslides, by turmoil on and below our ocean waters, by Code Red alerts for the air we breathe, corporate lobbyists have managed to stop meaningful climate control legislation. Where is the voice of charitable leaders -- not just environmentalists -- to contest this capitulation?

How, in the face of obvious human and planetary disaster, can the greed of corporations for ever-greater profit, and of legislators in protecting their interests, be generally unchallenged by nonprofit leaders?

Those same dynamics of greed have brought us to the edge of economic disintegration and close to a double-dip recession. It was deregulation of banking institutions by Congress in the late 1990s that got us into this crisis, and now we see corporations keeping us in it. Beyond the grossly irresponsible gambling that turned Wall Street into a casino with safe bets for insiders, beyond their lobbyists' efforts to weaken the financial reform legislation recently enacted to help protect us from such behavior, corporations are now holding the economy hostage to their next quarters' profits. In spite of occasional stock market rallies, the economy cannot truly recover without jobs, and they aren't even beginning to offer enough of them

Although corporate profits set an all-time record of $1.37-trillion in the first quarter of this year -- and, astoundingly, they are sitting on $2-trillion in cash -- corporations are not rehiring the more than 8-million workers they laid off in this recession.

With unemployment hovering around 9.5 percent, it is said that corporate leaders are waiting for a more favorable business climate, by which they mean still lower taxes and still more deregulation -- and now they have the Obama administration working on $180-billion in tax cuts to spur hiring.

In effect, corporations are saying, Feed our greed or most Americans will continue to suffer.

And so too will nonprofit organizations. Corporate contributions fell significantly last year, and they are expected to remain flat in 2010 -- so besides holding back on the hiring necessary for economic recovery, they are also shortchanging the charities that are helping the jobless and other Americans in these terribly strained times.

More and more, "corporate philanthropy" seems to be an oxymoron -- their ostensibly philanthropic actions reflect marketing strategies instead of altruistic purposes. Cause-related marketing, profit-generating charitable partnerships, and publicity-seeking crowd-sourced donation programs all benefit corporations more than charities. After they cut a profitable deal with Verizon, we even see the much-heralded public-spirited Google reversing itself on the information age's fundamental social policy of Net neutrality. Again, private greed over public interest.

Greed may be killing the American dream. For about the last four decades, the income of 90 percent of Americans has essentially remained flat, and we are now seeing new generations of Americans actually losing ground, realistically expecting to do worse than their parents no matter how hard they try. During that same time, the income of the super-wealthy has more than tripled. We have seen the wages of CEOs go from 26 times the median income of Americans to more than 300 times that figure.

Most of us, wherever we work, simply acquiesce to what seems the inevitable imperative for greater riches. Too many of us just do what everyone else is doing, just want what everyone else is wanting. Yet we all hold some responsibility for not seeking and speaking truth.

While greed appears endemic in the corporate world and among its political cronies, the nonprofit sector has not been totally spared this insidious dynamic.

Some charity and foundation executives, with the complicity of their board members, have allowed greed to crowd out public service. Outrageous salaries, benefits, and other expenses characterize, although still proportionately few, far too many nonprofit organizations. These selfish practices not only imperil individual organizations but also make vulnerable the entire nonprofit world.

So where does all of this leave us?

We need nonprofit and foundation officials to call us to reject the avalanche of limitless political and corporate greed, first by naming it, then by exposing and helping all to see it, and finally countering it by promoting new public policies and private practices.

Corporations and the politicians they support won't fill this moral void. But the country increasingly is ready for the emergence of new leaders and a reassertion of important American values.

Leadership must come from the charitable and philanthropic community, and it is needed now. It is wrong to abdicate responsibility in fear of complex national and global dynamics and a polarized electorate. Timid or confused silence is not an option for those who assert to represent our better natures; rather, it is an abdication of the fundamental moral and social obligations of the charitable community.

The nonprofit world needs to speak clearly for the common good and to work assiduously toward it. Its organizations need to get beyond their own parochial interests and to find shared purpose across areas of concern. We all suffer at the hands of the greedy in and beyond the ways noted here. By pulling these pieces together, by pulling ourselves together, by showing the greedy for what they really are, we can begin to build a more democratic, caring and equitable society.

Mark Rosenman, a long time nonprofit sector activist and scholar, directs Caring to Change (www.caringtochange.org), a project in Washington that seeks to promote foundation grantmaking for the common good. A version of this piece also appears in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

robert shumake

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Synium Software has released an update to iFinance Mobile adding native iPad support and several additional new features. iFinance Mobile is a personal finance application for iOS devices that allows users to record transactions and expenses on the go and optionally sync that data with iFinance for the Mac for expanded financial review and planning. iFinance Mobile 2.0 is now a universal app providing native support for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and adds a new Account History chart, CSV export of transaction data via e-mail and an improved, redesigned user interface for both the iPhone and iPad. The update also provides several other smaller enhancements such as a graphical calendar view, automatic BIC and IBAN validation, transaction sorting by date and localization in Czech, Polish, French and Russian. iFinance Mobile 2.0 is available from the App Store for $2 and is a free update for users of any prior version.

I've read a lot of stores lately about "credit score enthusiasts" who want to get the perfect credit score or are obsessed with improving their score. While it's certainly better than not caring about your credit score at all, it almost never pays to get a perfect score.

Despite all the stories about the odd ways your score is being used, the reality is that once you have a good credit score, you don't need to obsess about it.

Consider this - if your score is better than 760, then Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that invested the credit score formula; says you get zero benefit from improving it. For mortgage interest rate purposes, a 761 is the same as an 850. For auto loans, the bar is even lower. If you have a score about 720, it's the same as having a perfect score of 850. Visit their site and look in the right hand column - there's a table listing FICO scores and APRs for 30-year fixed mortgages, 15-year fixed mortgages, and 36-month auto loans.

If you are planning on getting a loan in the next year or two and your score is close to the next tier, by all means try to improve it. If you aren't planning on getting a loan and you have a decent score, focus your energies on something else. I assure you that you will get a better return doing something other than obsessing about your credit score.

Jim writes about personal finance at Bargaineering.com.

robert shumake

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Synium Software has released an update to iFinance Mobile adding native iPad support and several additional new features. iFinance Mobile is a personal finance application for iOS devices that allows users to record transactions and expenses on the go and optionally sync that data with iFinance for the Mac for expanded financial review and planning. iFinance Mobile 2.0 is now a universal app providing native support for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and adds a new Account History chart, CSV export of transaction data via e-mail and an improved, redesigned user interface for both the iPhone and iPad. The update also provides several other smaller enhancements such as a graphical calendar view, automatic BIC and IBAN validation, transaction sorting by date and localization in Czech, Polish, French and Russian. iFinance Mobile 2.0 is available from the App Store for $2 and is a free update for users of any prior version.

I've read a lot of stores lately about "credit score enthusiasts" who want to get the perfect credit score or are obsessed with improving their score. While it's certainly better than not caring about your credit score at all, it almost never pays to get a perfect score.

Despite all the stories about the odd ways your score is being used, the reality is that once you have a good credit score, you don't need to obsess about it.

Consider this - if your score is better than 760, then Fair Isaac Corporation, the company that invested the credit score formula; says you get zero benefit from improving it. For mortgage interest rate purposes, a 761 is the same as an 850. For auto loans, the bar is even lower. If you have a score about 720, it's the same as having a perfect score of 850. Visit their site and look in the right hand column - there's a table listing FICO scores and APRs for 30-year fixed mortgages, 15-year fixed mortgages, and 36-month auto loans.

If you are planning on getting a loan in the next year or two and your score is close to the next tier, by all means try to improve it. If you aren't planning on getting a loan and you have a decent score, focus your energies on something else. I assure you that you will get a better return doing something other than obsessing about your credit score.

Jim writes about personal finance at Bargaineering.com.

Forum Making Money

Deep, Wide, Serious and Crazy

That's not the title to a new track from Petey Pablo. It's how this unconfernece is billed in terms of the Intel AppUp Center. As agendas go, the mix and makeup of the unconference gives an indication that this has a very serious side to balance the gaming and celebrity elements.

During the entire event an Open Lab will make hardware available for development projects. Yes. You can just hole up with other people and just hack away if you want to. Punch and pie are on the agenda.

(note: I'll be bringing my sacrificial HP Mini 1000 with Ubuntu Remix and Moblin thumb drive(s) for dd of the images du jour and anything I can try short of bricking it)

Developer platforms covered will include mobile devices for handheld gaming and netbooks. Talks will span a wide array of topics such Adobe Air, Windows C/C++, .NET and MeeGo but will also extend to areas many developers are increasingly focused on -- cash (not cache):

• Making Money as an ISV



• Generating Revnue from Advertising



• Monetizing and Community



• Merchandising

Be sure to come back to ReadWriteHack on Thursday for coverage of the Intel AppUp Elements 2010 unconference.

• AppUp Elements Day 1 (morning)



• AppUp Elements Day 2 (afternoon)

If there are topics you are interested in hearing more about from the event and you are unable to attend please leave your questions in the comments below!

Disclosure: Intel is a sponsor of ReadWriteWeb.

The late Rep.
John (Jack) Murtha (D-Penn.) was the earmark king, a politician who
didn't stint on dragging federally funded pork to his district in
the Keystone State under any and all pretenses. Channeling O.J.
Simpson, who once said that if he had killed his ex-wife,
it was only because he loved her too much, Murtha actually uttered,
"If I’m a little corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district."
Boy, that's public spiritedness, ain't it?

Murtha's legacy of shameless spending on crap nobody needed and
we all paid for via taxes lives on even though the
unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM lies full-fathom five. His
successor, Rep. Mark Critz, is seeing to that by earmarking $10
million in a defense-funding bill for the John P. Murtha
Center for Public Service at the University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown. Given that this piece of junk is in a defense bill, it's
supposed to have something to do with, well, defense. But that's
baloney, too.

Wired's Noah Shachtman explains:

The 30,000 square-foot Center will primarily serve as a
scholarly debating forum for policy issues and a repository for
Murtha’s papers. But wait, you ask. How does the Murtha Center
relate to the Department of Defense? Oh, it’ll inspire “students
and the general public to become active in our communities, the
military, and in public service.” See? Military applicability.

Schactman
continues,

Murtha is hardly the only deceased legislator to be posthumously
honored with your money. Last year, Congress also added $10 million
to the defense bill to build an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the
United States Senate at the University of Massachusetts. The
Kennedy Institute didn’t even pretend to have a military
application, but that did absolutely nothing to derail the
earmark.

More here.

And people wonder why the Tea Party is doing swell and
milquetoast establishment centrist candidates such as Mike Castle
of Delaware are getting their asses kicked finally? The earmarks
above are more than annoying. Given the military trappings of the
funding sources, they're obscene. We've got an army that was in
recent memory sent to actual wars without proper equipment (can
anyone forget Donald Rumsfeld's grotesque hand-washing of
responsibility for properly outfitting the military in Afghanistan
and Iraq?). And yet we're capable of building million-dollar
sarcophaguses to fat dead old men?

Screw you, buddy, I sez! Suddenly, Christine O'Donnell's
anti-masturbation views are making more and more sense, especially
if she keeps her pledge not to jerk off taxpayers like the bums
currently pounding the pork in D.C.

Check out Reason.tv's Porker of the Month series, done with
Citizens Against Government Waste:

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Deep, Wide, Serious and Crazy

That's not the title to a new track from Petey Pablo. It's how this unconfernece is billed in terms of the Intel AppUp Center. As agendas go, the mix and makeup of the unconference gives an indication that this has a very serious side to balance the gaming and celebrity elements.

During the entire event an Open Lab will make hardware available for development projects. Yes. You can just hole up with other people and just hack away if you want to. Punch and pie are on the agenda.

(note: I'll be bringing my sacrificial HP Mini 1000 with Ubuntu Remix and Moblin thumb drive(s) for dd of the images du jour and anything I can try short of bricking it)

Developer platforms covered will include mobile devices for handheld gaming and netbooks. Talks will span a wide array of topics such Adobe Air, Windows C/C++, .NET and MeeGo but will also extend to areas many developers are increasingly focused on -- cash (not cache):

• Making Money as an ISV



• Generating Revnue from Advertising



• Monetizing and Community



• Merchandising

Be sure to come back to ReadWriteHack on Thursday for coverage of the Intel AppUp Elements 2010 unconference.

• AppUp Elements Day 1 (morning)



• AppUp Elements Day 2 (afternoon)

If there are topics you are interested in hearing more about from the event and you are unable to attend please leave your questions in the comments below!

Disclosure: Intel is a sponsor of ReadWriteWeb.

The late Rep.
John (Jack) Murtha (D-Penn.) was the earmark king, a politician who
didn't stint on dragging federally funded pork to his district in
the Keystone State under any and all pretenses. Channeling O.J.
Simpson, who once said that if he had killed his ex-wife,
it was only because he loved her too much, Murtha actually uttered,
"If I’m a little corrupt, it’s because I take care of my district."
Boy, that's public spiritedness, ain't it?

Murtha's legacy of shameless spending on crap nobody needed and
we all paid for via taxes lives on even though the
unindicted co-conspirator in ABSCAM lies full-fathom five. His
successor, Rep. Mark Critz, is seeing to that by earmarking $10
million in a defense-funding bill for the John P. Murtha
Center for Public Service at the University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown. Given that this piece of junk is in a defense bill, it's
supposed to have something to do with, well, defense. But that's
baloney, too.

Wired's Noah Shachtman explains:

The 30,000 square-foot Center will primarily serve as a
scholarly debating forum for policy issues and a repository for
Murtha’s papers. But wait, you ask. How does the Murtha Center
relate to the Department of Defense? Oh, it’ll inspire “students
and the general public to become active in our communities, the
military, and in public service.” See? Military applicability.

Schactman
continues,

Murtha is hardly the only deceased legislator to be posthumously
honored with your money. Last year, Congress also added $10 million
to the defense bill to build an Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the
United States Senate at the University of Massachusetts. The
Kennedy Institute didn’t even pretend to have a military
application, but that did absolutely nothing to derail the
earmark.

More here.

And people wonder why the Tea Party is doing swell and
milquetoast establishment centrist candidates such as Mike Castle
of Delaware are getting their asses kicked finally? The earmarks
above are more than annoying. Given the military trappings of the
funding sources, they're obscene. We've got an army that was in
recent memory sent to actual wars without proper equipment (can
anyone forget Donald Rumsfeld's grotesque hand-washing of
responsibility for properly outfitting the military in Afghanistan
and Iraq?). And yet we're capable of building million-dollar
sarcophaguses to fat dead old men?

Screw you, buddy, I sez! Suddenly, Christine O'Donnell's
anti-masturbation views are making more and more sense, especially
if she keeps her pledge not to jerk off taxpayers like the bums
currently pounding the pork in D.C.

Check out Reason.tv's Porker of the Month series, done with
Citizens Against Government Waste:

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Overall, Bing Rewards is exactly like any loyalty rewards program you’ve used via your credit card or at your favorite store. Buy more stuff and complete certain tasks, and you get some miniscule reward. The program is clearly the successor to Bing Cashback, the now-defunct rewards program that gave you money for buying products through the Bing search engine. Cashback’s termination was announced in June, and it officially closed on July 30.

We were hoping that Cashback would be the end of Microsoft trying to (directly) buy users, but it looks like that was hoping for too much. While the program seems like a decent enough concept, we just don’t think people treat search like they do their credit cards. Are thousands or millions of people really going to switch from class='blippr-nobr'>Googleclass="blippr-nobr">Google and install a god-awful toolbar just so they can get a Zune?

Microsoft, you’re wasting time, energy and resources on this rewards program. Awesome new features are going to help you win the search war, not Bing points and gift cards.

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   I have been following the emergence and ultimate convergence of Internet and TV. The real crux will be content ownership and some sites made deals a year ago to produce shows for them. The ultimate switch will be similar to when the traditional networks lost eyes to cable channels. One misconception IMHO is this over 30 under 30 idea. Using age to demonstrate adaption trends is short sighted and frankly offensive. It puts into the social consciousness a sort of age bias that those over "40" already struggle with. It reminds me of an earlier decade belief in not trusting someone over 30. Not good relationship management.

   
   
   

   Posted by: Judith Copeland |
   September 29, 2010 9:02 PM

   
   
















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   the problem with clicker is everyone already knows where to get the legal main content. Theres not too many places you can get ABC , FOX, NBC .. etc. They aren't solving a real problem. The real problem is finding all the places that I can find it outside of those channels if you know what I mean.

   
   
   

   Posted by: guest |
   September 29, 2010 9:55 PM

   
   
















3. 
   
   
   

   Google TV has the opportunity to be a transformative milestone in the realization of TV convergence. Google’s Android platform in every user’s home will be open to developers, including Clicker, to run apps that will be able to engage viewers in unprecedented manners. Leaned-back couch potatoes will be offered opportunities to lean-forward and curate their converged media, share, learn take actions.

   
   
   

   Closed captioning of both broadcast & online video will be a significant basis for converged TV experiences. Congress has passed, and the President will soon sign, directives to the FCC to have U.S. commercial broadcasters include these time-coded transcripts in all broadcast video content offered online. These metadata can be used by semantic engines to derive highly granular dynamic understanding of the content and better present viewers with powerful recommendations.
   
   

   
   
   

    Posted by: R Macdonald |
   September 29, 2010 9:59 PM

   
   
















4. 
   
   
   

   Well if Google starts working on it, there's a little chance for other companies unless they can come up with a real innovation and withstand the temptation of selling it out to google. As for online TV, I really hope that they find a smart compromise between producers protecting their content and users wanting it all for free.

   
   
   

   Posted by: essay_writing |
   September 30, 2010 1:45 AM

   
   
















5. 
   
   
   

   The switch from TV over the internet was always going to happen. It will be interesting to see how many peple embrace this change!

   
   
   

    Posted by: Dom |
   September 30, 2010 2:01 AM

   
   
















6. 
   
   
   

   It is expected of Free TV channels to set up their own channel over the internet as others are well gearing up for this. Me for one will use Internet TV if that will be free (for Free Channels) but won’t even pay a dime for Pay Channels since I do have it on cable. Kill the cable first before expecting users to pay for Internet TV.

   
   
   

   Posted by: Steve Jobs |
   September 30, 2010 8:46 AM

   
   
















7. 
   
   
   

   If there is a labeled group that I must fall into then I would be a 'Cable cutter/never'. oh well, like politics two groups do not define the nation's opinion.
   
   I have been cable free for years. Lost the privilege one year and the spell was broken. I watched what I could get/receive from the roof antenna. Then the internet was suddenly quite a resource as I discovered people uploaded their season long DVR recordings and shared to many public sites. These hard to find sites called for registration or a number of uploads to contribute.
   
   Further research found major television companies sharing episodes and highlight reels. Then I heard about a young Hulu.com from a programmer friend who built a major tv site's app and then the Hulu.com app. Nice. This was free with registration and you could setup subscriptions and just scan your queue for what's new.
   
   Another great value is in sites like CastTv.com where we have a resource of shows found all over the web and they simply link you to the sites with the episodes. No fee. They even monitor when a program reaches the end of a season and goes to DVD or the producer earmarks an episode(Ex: Star Wars The Clone Wars to a paid format only).
   
   The tv community is on the move to the web and more will follow as Cable tries to compensate with fees and threatens stations with new contracts. Then we have companies supporting the community with $150 Blue Ray players and $99 Apple Tv that are pushing those internet shows to the front room television directly from your computer. We can get it all in HD quality on youtube, International tv stations, netflix, news shows and old tv series (VHS recordings salvaged and uploaded) that have been forgotten. All of this uploaded and available for the international viewing audience.

   
   
   

    Posted by: Eric |
   September 30, 2010 12:43 PM

   
   























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Microsoft, we thought you learned your lesson from the from the failure of Bing Cashback. It looks like we were wrong.

Earlier today, Microsoft launched Bing Rewards, a new program that lets users earn credits for performing actions like searching on class='blippr-nobr'>Bingclass="blippr-nobr">Bing, making Bing their homepage and testing out new features. The more users perform these actions, the more credits they earn.

Of course, there’s a catch — you have to download the “Bing Bar” (it’s a toolbar for class='blippr-nobr'>Internet Explorerclass="blippr-nobr">Internet Explorer) onto your class='blippr-nobr'>Windowsclass="blippr-nobr">Windows machine and sign up with a Windows Live ID. We hope you’re running Boot Camp, Mac owners.

Overall, Bing Rewards is exactly like any loyalty rewards program you’ve used via your credit card or at your favorite store. Buy more stuff and complete certain tasks, and you get some miniscule reward. The program is clearly the successor to Bing Cashback, the now-defunct rewards program that gave you money for buying products through the Bing search engine. Cashback’s termination was announced in June, and it officially closed on July 30.

We were hoping that Cashback would be the end of Microsoft trying to (directly) buy users, but it looks like that was hoping for too much. While the program seems like a decent enough concept, we just don’t think people treat search like they do their credit cards. Are thousands or millions of people really going to switch from class='blippr-nobr'>Googleclass="blippr-nobr">Google and install a god-awful toolbar just so they can get a Zune?

Microsoft, you’re wasting time, energy and resources on this rewards program. Awesome new features are going to help you win the search war, not Bing points and gift cards.

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1. 
   
   
   

   I have been following the emergence and ultimate convergence of Internet and TV. The real crux will be content ownership and some sites made deals a year ago to produce shows for them. The ultimate switch will be similar to when the traditional networks lost eyes to cable channels. One misconception IMHO is this over 30 under 30 idea. Using age to demonstrate adaption trends is short sighted and frankly offensive. It puts into the social consciousness a sort of age bias that those over "40" already struggle with. It reminds me of an earlier decade belief in not trusting someone over 30. Not good relationship management.

   
   
   

   Posted by: Judith Copeland |
   September 29, 2010 9:02 PM

   
   
















2. 
   
   
   

   the problem with clicker is everyone already knows where to get the legal main content. Theres not too many places you can get ABC , FOX, NBC .. etc. They aren't solving a real problem. The real problem is finding all the places that I can find it outside of those channels if you know what I mean.

   
   
   

   Posted by: guest |
   September 29, 2010 9:55 PM

   
   
















3. 
   
   
   

   Google TV has the opportunity to be a transformative milestone in the realization of TV convergence. Google’s Android platform in every user’s home will be open to developers, including Clicker, to run apps that will be able to engage viewers in unprecedented manners. Leaned-back couch potatoes will be offered opportunities to lean-forward and curate their converged media, share, learn take actions.

   
   
   

   Closed captioning of both broadcast & online video will be a significant basis for converged TV experiences. Congress has passed, and the President will soon sign, directives to the FCC to have U.S. commercial broadcasters include these time-coded transcripts in all broadcast video content offered online. These metadata can be used by semantic engines to derive highly granular dynamic understanding of the content and better present viewers with powerful recommendations.
   
   

   
   
   

    Posted by: R Macdonald |
   September 29, 2010 9:59 PM

   
   
















4. 
   
   
   

   Well if Google starts working on it, there's a little chance for other companies unless they can come up with a real innovation and withstand the temptation of selling it out to google. As for online TV, I really hope that they find a smart compromise between producers protecting their content and users wanting it all for free.

   
   
   

   Posted by: essay_writing |
   September 30, 2010 1:45 AM

   
   
















5. 
   
   
   

   The switch from TV over the internet was always going to happen. It will be interesting to see how many peple embrace this change!

   
   
   

    Posted by: Dom |
   September 30, 2010 2:01 AM

   
   
















6. 
   
   
   

   It is expected of Free TV channels to set up their own channel over the internet as others are well gearing up for this. Me for one will use Internet TV if that will be free (for Free Channels) but won’t even pay a dime for Pay Channels since I do have it on cable. Kill the cable first before expecting users to pay for Internet TV.

   
   
   

   Posted by: Steve Jobs |
   September 30, 2010 8:46 AM

   
   
















7. 
   
   
   

   If there is a labeled group that I must fall into then I would be a 'Cable cutter/never'. oh well, like politics two groups do not define the nation's opinion.
   
   I have been cable free for years. Lost the privilege one year and the spell was broken. I watched what I could get/receive from the roof antenna. Then the internet was suddenly quite a resource as I discovered people uploaded their season long DVR recordings and shared to many public sites. These hard to find sites called for registration or a number of uploads to contribute.
   
   Further research found major television companies sharing episodes and highlight reels. Then I heard about a young Hulu.com from a programmer friend who built a major tv site's app and then the Hulu.com app. Nice. This was free with registration and you could setup subscriptions and just scan your queue for what's new.
   
   Another great value is in sites like CastTv.com where we have a resource of shows found all over the web and they simply link you to the sites with the episodes. No fee. They even monitor when a program reaches the end of a season and goes to DVD or the producer earmarks an episode(Ex: Star Wars The Clone Wars to a paid format only).
   
   The tv community is on the move to the web and more will follow as Cable tries to compensate with fees and threatens stations with new contracts. Then we have companies supporting the community with $150 Blue Ray players and $99 Apple Tv that are pushing those internet shows to the front room television directly from your computer. We can get it all in HD quality on youtube, International tv stations, netflix, news shows and old tv series (VHS recordings salvaged and uploaded) that have been forgotten. All of this uploaded and available for the international viewing audience.

   
   
   

    Posted by: Eric |
   September 30, 2010 12:43 PM

   
   





















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Rick Sanchez fired from CNN - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com

Rick Sanchez lost his job just 24 hours after suggesting Jews run CNN and other media companies.

Small Business <b>News</b>: Management 101

Is management ability something you're born with or can it be learned through careful study? Just as there can be many kinds of small business owners and many.

<b>News</b> Corp. Donates $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce <b>...</b>

The donation is the News Corporation's second known contribution to a group that is advertising heavily to support Republicans this year.


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Rick Sanchez fired from CNN - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com

Rick Sanchez lost his job just 24 hours after suggesting Jews run CNN and other media companies.

Small Business <b>News</b>: Management 101

Is management ability something you're born with or can it be learned through careful study? Just as there can be many kinds of small business owners and many.

<b>News</b> Corp. Donates $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce <b>...</b>

The donation is the News Corporation's second known contribution to a group that is advertising heavily to support Republicans this year.


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Rick Sanchez fired from CNN - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com

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Small Business <b>News</b>: Management 101

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<b>News</b> Corp. Donates $1 Million to U.S. Chamber of Commerce <b>...</b>

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