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| Symbionese Liberation Army |
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Symbionese Liberation Army
"...Mom, Dad, I'm with a combat unit that's armed
with automatic weapons.
...Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the
life of the people."(communique from Patty Hearst)
Patty Hearst
taking part in the April 1974 Hibernia bank raid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation
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http://www.rickross.com/groups/symbionese.html
Tags : SLA patty hearst radical left john waters third sight 共生解放軍 極左 過激派 |
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Durée : 59 s |
| The New Media - Chris Anderson with Will Hearst |
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Complete video at:
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=453
"Wired" editor and "The Long Tail" author Chris
Anderson talks with publisher Will Hearst about
how user-created content is changing the landscape
of mass media.
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The Long Time Tail
You know something is up when an audience member
is taking cell phone photos of the presenter's
slides for instant transmittal to a business
partner.
Chris Anderson does have killer slides, full of
exuberant detail, defining the exact shape of the
still emerging opportunity space for finding and
selling formerly infindable and unsellable items
of every imaginable description. The 25 million
music tracks in the world. All the TV ever
broadcast. Every single amateur video. All that is
old, arcane, micro-niche, against-the-grain,
undefinable, or remote is suddenly as accessible
as the top of the pops.
"The power law is the shape of our age," Anderson
asserted, showing the classic ski-jump curve of
popularity - a few things sell in vast quantity,
while a great many things sell in small quantity.
It's the natural product of variety, inequality,
and network effect sifting, which amplifies the
inequality.
"Everything is measurable now," said Anderson,
comparing charts of sales over time of a hit music
album with a niche album. The hit declined
steeply, the niche album kept its legs. The "long
tail" of innumerable tiny-sellers is populated by
old hits as well as new and old niche items.
That's the time dimension. For the first time in
history, archives have a business model. Old stuff
is more profitable because the acquisition cost is
lower and customer satisfaction is higher.
Infinite-inventory Netflix occupies the sweet spot
for movie distribution, while Blockbuster is
saddled with the tyranny of the new.
Anderson explained that we are leaving an age
where distribution was ruled by channel scarcity -
3 TV networks, only so many movie theater screens,
limited shelf space for books. "Those scarcity
effects make a bottleneck that distorts the market
and distorts our culture. Infinite shelf space
changes everything." Books are freed up by
print-on-demand (already a large and profitable
service at Amazon), movies freed by cheap DVDs,
old broadcast TV by classics collections, new
videos by Google Videos and YouTube online. Even
the newest game machines are now designed to be
able to emulate their earlier incarnations, so you
can play the original "Super Mario Bros." if so
inclined - and many are. "I'm an editor of a
Conde-Nast magazine [Wired] AND I'm a blogger,"
said Anderson. In other words, he works both in
the fading world of "pre-filters" and the emerging
world of "post-filters." Pre-filtering is ruled by
editors, A&R guys ("artist and repetoire," the
talent-finders in the music biz), studio execs,
and capital-B Buyers. Post-filtering is driven by
readers, recommenders, word of mouth, and buyers.
Will Hearst joined Anderson on the stage and noted
that social networking software has automated word
of mouth, and that's what has "unchoked the long
tail of sheer obscure quantity in the vast backlog
of old movies, for example." Anderson agreed, "The
marketing power of customer recommendations is the
main driver for Netflix, and it is zero-cost
marketing."
"By democratizing the tools of distribution, we're
seeing a Renaissance in culture. We're starting to
find out just how rich our society is in terms of
creativity," Anderson said. But isn't there a
danger, he was asked from the audience, of our
culture falling apart with all this
super-empowered diversity? Anderson agreed that we
collect strongly and narrowly around our passions
now, rather than just weakly and widely around
broadcast hits, but the net gain of overall
creativity is the main effect, and a positive one.
Questions remain, though. "Digital rights is the
elephant in the room of freeing the long tail."
Clearing copyright on old material is a profoundly
wedged process at present, with no solution in
sight. Will Hearst fretted that we may be becoming
an "opinionocracy," swayed by TV bloviators and
online bloggers, losing the grounding of objective
reporting. Anderson observed that maybe the
two-party system is a pre-long-tail scarcity
effect that suppresses the diversity we're now
embracing. Much of how we run our culture has yet
to catch up with the long tail - Stewart Brand,
The Long Now Foundation
Tags : long tail msm blog bloggers weblog new news television cable internet market you tube video info web 2.0 fora tv fora.tv |
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Durée : 517 s |
| Hearst Castle |
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Veronica Hill of California Travel Tips explores
the magnificent Hearst Castle in San Simeon:
Perched on a hilltop 1,600 feet above the crashing
waves of the Pacific, Hearst's magnificent Castle
is located halfway between LA and San Francisco
near the town of Cambria.
June 2008 marked 50 years since the castle opened
to the public. Today, it draws more than 1 million
visitors a year.
Start your Hearst Castle Tour at the Visitors
Center, located right off Highway 1. The
Experience Tour is one of five offered at the
castle, and is recommended for first time
visitors. Tickets sell out quickly, so advanced
reservations are strongly recommended. Tours
average about 2 hours.
Hopping aboard the tour bus, we begin our steep
and winding ascent to the castle, listing to old
time music while passing roaming herds of cattle.
It's easy to imagine how invited guests felt
arriving at the ranch for a weeklong stay of
lavish parties, good food and fine living.
William Hearst built three separate guest houses
for his famous visitors, who included Hollywood
glitterati, political leaders and other notables
like Howard Hughes.
Passing through the main gate, we looked down in
awe at the sparkling Pacific ocean, Santa Lucia
mountains and rolling green hills that inspired
Hearst to build here in 1919.
The Neptune Pool, with its impressive Greco-Roman
colonaddes, Vermont marble statues, remnants from
Roman temples and 17th century bas reliefs, is a
highlight on each tour. The white marble pool is
10 feet at its deepest point and 104 feet long,
featuring a unique oil-burning heating system.
Hearst's visitors had their choice of the three
guesthouses, and Casa del Sol is one of the most
beautiful. This 8-bedroom, 2,600 square foot
Moorish retreat, with sweeping views of the
Pacific, opens up to Central Plaza and Casa
Grande, Hearst's 60,000 square foot Medietrranean
Revival style residence.
Casa Grande has 38 bedrooms and 41 bathrooms.
Total square footage of the estate exceeds 90,000
square feet.
Casa Grande itself is a palatial sight. In fact,
architectural historian Lord John Norwich called
it a "palace in every sense of the word."
The Central Plaza outside Casa Grande is serene
and beautiful, especially as the ocean breeze
blows by. The plaza and outer terraces are a great
spot to relax and admire the beautiful gardens,
fountains, ponds and priceless sculptures.
In fact, the castle has more than 22,000 museum
quality artifacts, shipped from around the world,
including ornately carved ancient European
ceilings and exquisite tapestries.
There are 14 sitting rooms in Casa Grande, but the
Assembly Room was where Hearst's guests gathered
around 6:30 p.m. to enjoy cocktails, play cards,
or enjoy a game of Monopoly before dinner. The
estate has 41 fireplaces!
At 8 p.m., guests moved in to the Refectory, the
only dining room in the castle. Here, Hearst
enjoyed lavish meals with his mistress Marion
Davies and about 15 famous visitors, always making
sure there was plenty of ketchup, pickles and
mustard to go around. Heart's favorite dish was
rare pressed duck
The kitchen, built in 1927, featured electric
appliances and the latest in modern conveniences
for its time. It looks much like it did during its
heyday, including spoons for enjoying bone marrow,
a delicacy at the time.
Hearst employed 15 chefs, waiters, butlers and
maids.
After enjoying a fine meal, guests retreated to
the 50-seat Movie Theater or took a dip in the
Indoor Roman pool, styled after the Italian Baths
of Caracalla and Mausoleum of Galla Placidia.
Thanks for coming along on our tour of the
magnificent Hearst Castle. Now, go make those
reservations and enjoy this Palace on the Pacific.
Hearst Castle
750 Hearst Castle Road, along Highway One,
San
Simeon
Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation,
www.hearstcastle.org/
Friends of Hearst Castle,
www.friendsofhearstcastle.org/
Tour Reservations: 1-800-444-4445
Tours for Mobility Impaired: 1-805-927-2020
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