Come to the UAE, get arrested for having poppy seeds on your clothing!

As a good friend pointed out “…It’s stupidly ironic, given that they’re trying to promote themselves as a business hub…”

I think this gets ten points for Moronic abuse of power and is in top-spot at this time.

If I can keep the attention-span up, there’ll be an award at the end of the year for The Dumbest Thing on the Planet.

This is very interesting

They’re right when they say that the studios are only assessing and distributing movies that they can make a buck off of; the same as every other business out there. Movie-making is a business, it’s not about creativity.

I, and friends, have a similar issue with the publishing industry.

The music industry is exactly the same.

This is the beginning of something interesting and new; the net has given us a way to communicate ideas and our creativity — be it good or bad — to the entire world (other than those countries being actively censored of course). The concept is revolutionary, and totally circumvents the business models which have worked for the last 100 or more years.

Now the key is to keep-up the momentum, so here are some additional links:

• Publish your book or periodical online at Lulu.com
• Show your movie or short film online at youtube.com
• Play your music for anyone to hear at myspace.com

These aren’t the be-all and end-all; there are plenty of other ways to get music, movies and books out there into the wide world; the next stage is getting it known.

And that’s where HTML metatags come in handy. You have to capitalise on the bots by working out the best search terms which will get your content to the top of the search results…

Ultimately, this is open-source for everything else. We’ve got open-source software, there’s the potential for open-source hardware, but open-source music, movies and books is a new development…  And like everything else that’s happening in the world, it’s making big-business very very scared.

Good.