Comments on: Towards an e-Creative Australia?

By: H&R

H&R — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:40:20 +0000

very low setup costs.

What about when domain squatting (oh I’m sorry, ‘PARKING’) goes the bigtime and we’re paying $300 for a url barely resembling our business/product/creation?

DomainWatch: A Bishop Government Initiative?

By: Chris (a different one)

Chris (a different one) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:55:16 +0000

- the death of the book, for instance (on which, see a sceptical Cory Doctorow on e books and screen reading).

I disagree with him regarding ebooks. I’ve had an ebook reader for a couple of months now and think paper books are on definitely on notice. Magazines definitely. But books or magazines aren’t really going to die, just the way that the same information is distributed. As for authors, if anything its going to make it easier for new authors to break into the market – near zero distribution costs and very low setup costs.

By: Fine

Fine — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:35:51 +0000

All the broadcasters are frantically trying to tap into ways of using Web 2, so they can separate money from the punters pockets in new and innovative ways. The problem is that there are very few people who work for broadcasters who understand how the web works. A bit like Canberra politicians.

But I’m a bit wary of the ‘television is dead’ claims. Certainly the audience is ageing, but it’s still a huge one.

Content producers would love to bypass the broadcasters and reach an international markets directly, but it’s actually quite difficult to construct models that work financially. Part of the problem is that the web is so noisy and people are so used to getting product for free that it’s hard to reach an audience and hard to get them to pay for product.

But there’s lots of interesting stuff hapening. I particularly like this site.
http://www.opensourcecinema.org

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:06:06 +0000

A fair bit of the mapping has already been done, Marcus, through the efforts of centres like CCi and sociologists and other analysts of the media and the online sphere. It actually wouldn’t be a huge job to pull it together – maybe a couple of month’s work for a consultancy – if the political will were there. It’s not as though there aren’t a lot of folks in this country who aren’t already researching and writing astute stuff about what’s actually happening in terms of creativity and e-innovation.

Of course, as you say, the dead hand of bureaucracy… but then I thought one of Rudd’s main goals was to short circuit the bureaucratic process?

By: Marcus Westbury

Marcus Westbury — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:40:51 +0000

One of the great problems in trying to deal with any of this is the inherent lag in trying to get anything rooted in *now* through the decision making process. The lack of any framework that even vaguely allows for a responsive, quick turn around decision making process is the hard part.

Can you imagine what the process would be to “map what’s already happening” – my fear is that that alone would take 3 years and sit on a minister’s desk for a further two.

Don’t mind me, i am just overwhelmed from reading too many cynical 2020 submissions coming at me from every direction!