Random updates (+sex under a polar bear--for FREE!)
In no particular order:
- Yesterday we had another girl, Olivia Nicole Anderson, which makes three girls and two boys (all 10 and below). Sooner or later one of them is going be a robotics geek, right? Speaking of which...
- DIYDrones is now doing 6,000-8,000 page views a day. Who knew?
- Buy Pepsi products, get free music. In economics terms, that's "pay for the things with non-zero marginal costs and get the things with near-zero marginal costs for free." Which is really the triumph of economic rationalism. And it only took a few hundred years!
There is now a wikiwhere you can help make my and Fred Wilson's Complete List of Media Business Models Built Around Free Content (TM) complete. [UPDATE: That wiki is now gone, not sure why. I'll update my own post and incorporate Fred's list.]- Larry Lessig's four great books are now all free and Creative Commons-licensed (as they would have been from the start if it were his decision, of course, but the cool thing is that it was Random House's)
- For some reason, people keep sending me the story about the Prague brothel that will let you have sex with a prostitute for free if they can webcast the encounter. This is great, because it allows me to give this post the most ridiculous photo I've ever used, the Polar Bear-themed "Igloo Room", where you can watch strangers making like Eskimos in, well, not heat. This is the absolute polar opposite of sexy! Thanks, Bloomberg.
You do realize, that atm the www.mediabusinessmodels.com offers a standard Mediawiki installation page?
The idea of having a wiki of media business models is terrific. Hope you get it up and running soon.
Posted by: Veikko | January 16, 2008 at 05:06 AM
Any free airplane tickets to Prague. I'm gonna be a star!
Posted by: Benjamin Huot | January 16, 2008 at 08:44 AM
The Open Rights Group has a project called 'Creative Business in the Digital Era' that is collecting case studies of people making money by releasing free content.
They have a wiki up and running at http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/index.php/Research_Areas
Adding the free business models list to that wiki would be a great idea.
Posted by: Kevin Marks | January 16, 2008 at 09:19 AM
Congratulations on the new daughter and brightest blessings to Olivia and her family.
Posted by: kitten | January 16, 2008 at 11:28 AM
That picture is awesome!
Posted by: Jorge | January 18, 2008 at 04:57 PM
Congrats on the new addition.
And how on earth are you meant to concentrate on the , ahem, 'business' in hand, whilst you're being stared at by a giant polar bear?
Posted by: Badger Gravling | January 20, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Excessive population growth is killing the Earth. Please stop at 5.
Posted by: Jason Scott | February 11, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Congrats!
Posted by: Matt Biscuiti | March 10, 2008 at 07:32 PM
thanks...
Kabin
Konteyner
Posted by: kabin | June 13, 2009 at 10:12 AM