Disruption: David Pakman's Blog

On the Saturday night before Father’s Day, I called my three kids together and asked them if they’d like to earn an extra five dollars. My wife and I were having a dinner party at our home that evening, and if they agreed to take baths/showers themselves, put on their jammies, brush teeth and settle [...]

I am fascinated by Xtranormal. This company is pioneering one of the most remarkable trends in peer production: social entertainment. Xtranormal is service that allows anyone to create an animated short. You chose the characters and the setting from a limited selection of scenes, and then you write the dialog. The company renders your text [...]

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is a new effort to introduce an interoperable DRM standard for video content. Many of the standard’s specifics are still being worked out but we know enough already to be confident of one thing: DECE will fail. Why? Because the consumer is now in control. And all DRM solutions [...]