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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

nikcub.appspot.com

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? IRC - I booted my entire tech career through people I met on IRC.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. However, more traditional businesses suffered a lot from lost productivity as all processes, communication channels, data security measures, applications, accesses and internal controls needed to be deployed on very short notice.

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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government

Andrew Payne

They rewrote the rules for channels and distribution, creating new livelihoods for countless authors and small businesses. And while New York state has an economy comparable to Russia, South Korea, OR Canada, Amazon negotiates with them as roughly an equal.