The plays people game....more wisdom of crowds

These are potentially pretty disruptive attacks by individuals on major plays of the media and search establishment...users generating discontent?

Yet another media encryption code cracked......here

This is a biggie...Advanced Access Content System (AACS) has apparently been cracked, its supposed to be the secure future of Video, and the key is supposedly mass updateable so in theory a hack could be overcome. Not clear just how it has been broken, but back to the Drawing Board for the Media Moghuls ?

Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder starts a new search play, using human rather than algorithm based approach

I have argued before that in a world of lousy Metadata, algorithms have limitations - but you just can't employ enough humans to search...however, if the wisdom of the global crowd was brought to bear....

Oh...and it seems that the Acer Ferrari / Vista / Edelman / Bloggergate scandal hit CNet and the New York Times. I loved one of the comments on CNet:

All throughout 2006 we've been inundated with stories of bloggers claiming to be another form of journalist.

Well, it seems to me we've just seen the where the line could be drawn.

No ethical journalist would EVER accept a free laptop from Microsoft. Simple as that.

I agree with the sentiment overall, clearly the issue re blogging morals, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, is now just about price - I but wondered whether that last sentence means an ethical journalist would accept a freebie from Apple

And there are more rumblings from the Real Economy in the Virtual worlds...my Second Life Tax Return?