Comments on: Don’t arbite me http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:46:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: omegamom http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2596 omegamom Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:10:48 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2596 Miss C.--Hear, hear! Of course, look at some of the stuff we've gotten from the "gatekeepers": People Magazine...Survivor...Piss Jesus...Dr. Laura...and on and on. (Not saying these are necessarily bad or good, just saying that having "gatekeepers" doesn't guarantee high-kultcha stuff.) Miss C.–Hear, hear! Of course, look at some of the stuff we’ve gotten from the “gatekeepers”: People Magazine…Survivor…Piss Jesus…Dr. Laura…and on and on. (Not saying these are necessarily bad or good, just saying that having “gatekeepers” doesn’t guarantee high-kultcha stuff.)

]]> By: Miss Cellania http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2585 Miss Cellania Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:10:03 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2585 What crap. People can make their own decisions as to what's good, what's entertaining, and what's reliable. "Gatekeepers" are afraid of losing their profits due to the democracy of the net. What crap. People can make their own decisions as to what’s good, what’s entertaining, and what’s reliable. “Gatekeepers” are afraid of losing their profits due to the democracy of the net.

]]> By: omegamom http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2576 omegamom Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:04:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2576 D--I think you're right. Of course, the RIAA is doing its best to enlist the courts in its fight to keep gatekeepers...bah. If they'd just set up their own websites and sell their own songs one at a time, letting the people who buy the songs do what they want with them, I think they'd have a better business model. D–I think you’re right. Of course, the RIAA is doing its best to enlist the courts in its fight to keep gatekeepers…bah. If they’d just set up their own websites and sell their own songs one at a time, letting the people who buy the songs do what they want with them, I think they’d have a better business model.

]]> By: D http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2560 D Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:24:13 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2560 Well, the wish to have the gatekeeper in my mind is equivalent to the wish to control change. Change is scary. Ask anyone in the MPAA, RIAA, or the paper based newspapers. They all wish they could get many more gatekeepers since their business models are outdated and based on assumptions on technology that simply are no longer true. But wishing doesn't make it so. In my mind we need to defend our freedom to make changes - and fight attempts to put more gatekeepers around us to "protect" us. Well, the wish to have the gatekeeper in my mind is equivalent to the wish to control change. Change is scary. Ask anyone in the MPAA, RIAA, or the paper based newspapers. They all wish they could get many more gatekeepers since their business models are outdated and based on assumptions on technology that simply are no longer true.

But wishing doesn’t make it so. In my mind we need to defend our freedom to make changes - and fight attempts to put more gatekeepers around us to “protect” us.

]]> By: University Update http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2542 University Update Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:01:32 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2007/06/09/dont-arbite-me/#comment-2542 <strong>Don’t arbite me...</strong> ... Don’t arbite me…

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