If you don't subscribe to the notion of the military industrial complex...

Then watch this and try and tell yourself there is a shred of integrity in western military adventures...

Excellent slideshare on social media engagement - 4 great case studies..

Tipping Points of Social Media

View more presentations from David Griner.

"it really feels like the second coming of the CD-ROM "revolution" in which "content" people proclaimed that they were going to remake media by producing expensive (to make and to buy) products."

Brilliant analysis of the iPad here

I know...

this blog really isn't very sophisticated.

And I know my insights are frankly mostly half arsed (and half baked).

But when you read something like this here

That reality becomes painfull

Clay Shirky is at the top of his game.

its genius - but I still don't know why...

10 Line business model makover - IPC....

IPC announce a new turd polishing excercise.......here

Why not instead?

Fire everyone.

Reduce cost to a shared server on RIMU (Around £50 a month)

Aggregate all music blogs on your shiny new shared server (under the NME brand)

Pay small stipends to the best "journos".

"Sign" the bands they love - and give the journos a cut.

Give their music away for free.

Make money on the tickets and merch.

IPC's problems solved and its not even 8:00am yet....

Predictably irrational...

Surely labelling anything predictably irrational - is simply an admission of ignorance on the part of the observer?

Given a billion years of evolution is presumed to have slotted each species perfectly into its own niche - any behaviour, which from an external point of view, appears irrational, is simply a characteristic of the organism the observer doesn't yet understand?

Of course I get the subjective view (and I love the book) - I guess my point is we can't know anyone else's reality better than them, and the labelling of anything, or anyone as irrational - is usually unhelpful.