Comments on: Rootgate: it’s getting worse and worse http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Quotulatiousness http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5255 Quotulatiousness Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:50:28 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5255 <strong>The Root(kit) of Sony's Problems</strong> Grant McCracken ponders just how out-of-touch the CEO of Sony must be to utter something like this at a public forum: "Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff." Or,... The Root(kit) of Sony’s Problems

Grant McCracken ponders just how out-of-touch the CEO of Sony must be to utter something like this at a public forum: “Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn’t be doing too much of that copy protection stuff.” Or,…

]]> By: madisonian.net http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5256 madisonian.net Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:36:10 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5256 <strong>The Rhetoric of Free Culture</strong> What do we call the kids? Grant McCracken puzzles over a reference in a recent talk by Sony CEO to the push and pull generation. That phrase means, apparently, pirate kids ones who dont respect authors as they download a... The Rhetoric of Free Culture

What do we call the kids?
Grant McCracken puzzles over a reference in a recent talk by Sony CEO to the push and pull generation. That phrase means, apparently, pirate kids ones who dont respect authors as they download a…

]]> By: M E-L http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5254 M E-L Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:22:21 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5254 Maybe it's supposed to be shorthand for "push [a button,] pull [out a (stolen) digital file?]" Or maybe he's confused about what P2P stands for. Or maybe it's a reference to the "PushMePullYou" in Dr. Doolittle! Yeah, that's it. Maybe it’s supposed to be shorthand for “push [a button,] pull [out a (stolen) digital file?]” Or maybe he’s confused about what P2P stands for. Or maybe it’s a reference to the “PushMePullYou” in Dr. Doolittle! Yeah, that’s it.

]]> By: Tom Guarriello http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5253 Tom Guarriello Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:04:22 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5253 Seems to me he was referring to the generation for whom "push" and "pull" have digital significance, regardless of the particular, contradictory, meanings of those terms. "Willful," "headstrong," "entitled," may very well have been his point. I agree that it was a peevish reach. But, an interesting one. Seems to me he was referring to the generation for whom “push” and “pull” have digital significance, regardless of the particular, contradictory, meanings of those terms. “Willful,” “headstrong,” “entitled,” may very well have been his point. I agree that it was a peevish reach. But, an interesting one.

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5252 Grant Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:21:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5252 Tom, I know the terms, thank you, which makes me doubt that Stinger is using them as you suggest. They are after all mutually exclusive, so combining them doesn't make any sense logically. And in any case, what remote sense would it make to describe the segments in question with this language...especially in this context? Could he mean "they wish to be served and to help themselves?" Does this mean he thinks of them as contrary, wilful, indulged? Would this be a species of CEO peevishness. I think it's more likely the guy was just flying by the seat of his pants. And on this issue! Thanks, Grant Tom, I know the terms, thank you, which makes me doubt that Stinger is using them as you suggest. They are after all mutually exclusive, so combining them doesn’t make any sense logically. And in any case, what remote sense would it make to describe the segments in question with this language…especially in this context? Could he mean “they wish to be served and to help themselves?” Does this mean he thinks of them as contrary, wilful, indulged? Would this be a species of CEO peevishness. I think it’s more likely the guy was just flying by the seat of his pants. And on this issue! Thanks, Grant

]]> By: Quotulatiousness http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5257 Quotulatiousness Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:03:02 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5257 <strong>The Root(kit) of Sony's Problems</strong> Grant McCracken ponders just how out-of-touch the CEO of Sony must be to utter something like this at a public forum: "Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn't be doing too much of that copy protection stuff." Or,... The Root(kit) of Sony’s Problems

Grant McCracken ponders just how out-of-touch the CEO of Sony must be to utter something like this at a public forum: “Clearly the perception out there is that we shouldn’t be doing too much of that copy protection stuff.” Or,…

]]> By: Tom Guarriello http://cultureby.com/2006/01/nice_work_by_br.html/comment-page-1#comment-5251 Tom Guarriello Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:32:14 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=788#comment-5251 Stringer was using Web-geek vernacular. "Push" is what gets done with most marketing emails, like spam. "Pull" is what gets done through subcription, like RSS. The "push-pull generation" seems to have been a reference to those who use those terms freely. Definitely too "inside baseball" for a general audience speech. And the whold rootkit issues is such a debacle, that it calls Stringer's leadership capabilites in this complex world into question...Oxford education aside. Stringer was using Web-geek vernacular. “Push” is what gets done with most marketing emails, like spam. “Pull” is what gets done through subcription, like RSS. The “push-pull generation” seems to have been a reference to those who use those terms freely. Definitely too “inside baseball” for a general audience speech. And the whold rootkit issues is such a debacle, that it calls Stringer’s leadership capabilites in this complex world into question…Oxford education aside.

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