communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies
The number of public library visits per person in public library service areas rose 30% in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008. Circulation per person increased 20% across this period.[1] The share of persons and households that use public libraries increased only slightly if at all.[2] These figures suggest that libraries are adapting well to … Continue reading visits to public libraries trending upwards
Joannes Lyddus, a sixth-century Byzantine bureaucrat, grumpled about the declining quality of writing material available to bureaucrats in Byzantium. … Read the post Joannes Lydus on media costs in late antiquity
The Shahnameh, an epic that Ferdowsi wrote a millennium ago in Iran, describes eternal content business difficulties. In the concluding section, Ferdowsi laments: Nobles and great men wrote down what I had written without paying me: I watched them from a distance, as if I were a hired servant of theirs. I had nothing from … Continue reading a testament to content business difficulties
About a third of U.S. households still do not have have Internet access. Among households with Internet access, about 7% have only dial-up Internet access.[1] Many households apparently do not appreciate the wealth of information and services that good Internet access offers. Only about 5% of U.S. households, in contrast, do not have telephone service.[2] … Continue reading from telephone service to good Internet service
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has a television channel. The U.S. Federal Courts have a television channel. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a television channel. Soon these and other government programming will be available through the portal video.gov. That portal hopes to attract millions of views. Disintermediation isn’t just for business. We’re entering … Continue reading government television