“Sebastian Horsley, a British author who has written an eyebrow-raising memoir detailing a life of rampant drug use and voluminous encounters with prostitutes, was turned back at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday as he tried to enter the United States for a book party and New York news media tour.”
Tag: 03.20.08
Why The Traditional Music Doesn’t Work Anymore
“There are too many people willing to give away their music for it to be worth anything. This is the ‘zero marginal cost’ model, where things can be distributed without appreciable cost. This is a case where the product has become free because of sheer economic gravity, with or without a business model.”
The Wonder Of Wikipedia
More people use Wikipedia than Amazon or eBay–in fact it’s up there in the top-ten Alexa rankings with those moneyed funhouses MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. Why? Because it has 2.2 million articles, and because it’s very often the first hit in a Google search, and because it just feels good to find something there–even, or especially, when the article you find is maybe a little clumsily written.