I know everyone here is vested in there being a new tomorrow, but, what if he’s right?

HULU is nearing breakeven. YouTube loses 1/2 billion/year. Unless the government wants to print more money and bail out a bunch of losing media/tech businesses, maybe Old Media wins?

Self expression doesn’t end with new v. old – but, it does create gatekeepers, those who make sure that they can sell the self-expression and earn a few bucks. Or, “self-expressors” are more than welcome to express-away with tools that don’t cost other people money. Self expression isn’t a pass-go Card that allows access to Other People’s costly tool sets.

It’s brilliant to build audience (for free) – then you have something that advertisers DUH!!!!

Most realize that no one platform will attract all audiences. Full integration is key (look at what PBS is doing) The wild west is over and the smart players have realized that they have to play nice in a together sort of way (a theory that may be foreign to you)

When I hear diatribes like this – it just makes me sad-take your marbles and go home little boy.

It seems like Mark doesn’t like that the market has not implemented any of his brilliant ideas that were conceived when he was at broadcast.com. He does not seem to understand that the market would push these concepts if the market really demanded it. Features for feature’s sake just don’t fly.

If he said “subsidize” one more time I was going to scream! The ENTIRE media community is subsidized. Everything ranging from production, talent, marketing, and distribution is subsidized. There are a lot of tax payers dollars invested in the internet. Why shouldn’t someone else subsidize it for a while? Go Google – spend all that money on delivering free video to us! I’ll click on a few of those adds on your search page if it will mean more subsidized bandwidth.

If you take his best case scenario and Google tanks (I’m not sure why he hates Google/YouTube so much) and they stop subsidizing video bandwidth with advertising revenue from their search page (I’m not sure why this advertising is different that pre-roll, post-roll, banner and embedded advertising), another company will step up and meet the challenge. If there is a market, there will be suppliers.

With HDNet, Mark has moved into Media Business and fully understands the threat that the internet has on it, as a whole. Now that he sits at the table with all the good ol’ media boys, he doesn’t seem to want get up and leave the room. Instead of embracing the change and effecting the course of innovation he is resisting it.

To quote a famous character in the media: “Resistance is futile.”