And it all falls down…

So Castro resigned from office, apparently there’s a moon base with better cell phone service than I get, and Lindsay Lohan is naked on purpose this time, yes the internet and the world are back in line (be careful, that last one might be not so safe for work). I guess what I’m trying to get at is that I’m still getting away with writing this thing. One thing that caught my attention about the Castro article was the way in which Castro announced his resignation; through the Cuban National News website. He transmitted his letter electronically to be released on a website. I don’t know how necessarily huge of an impact this has, but it seemed pretty unusual to me. How often have the leaders of countries released a resignation letter, or a letter of any significance for that matter, directly onto the internet before print or television sources? Not to many I’d guess. This got me thinking to all the new avenues of communication available to people with the internet. On one of the questions from our first test I took a direction that had me suggesting a type of blog or public forum for elected officials. A place where we could directly interact with the people who represent us in the big picture. This would be a way for all citizens to instantly access our lawmakers and policy setters. I think that scenarios like that are coming eventually, I mean it’s only logical.

More great news for the record industry. Digital sales are expected to surpass Cd sales by 2012 according to this article. It cited a need for DRM free music as a major factor in the increase of digital sales. It makes sense to me I guess. If I own something I want to own it, not to be told what I can and can’t do with my property like DRM does to music tracks. Besides, the physical product of a CD is something consumers have shown as an irrelevant piece of junk for lack of a better word. Digital copies are much more mobile and accessible to the types of technologies that consumers are using to listen to their music. Plainly speaking, see ya CD’s. Oh and see ya HD DVD too. That’s a depressing bit of news to me. I bought a brand new laptop like 3 months ago with an HD DVD drive in it, now my same model is packaged with a blue ray drive. I feel shafted. I hope HP offers some compensation for this. They completely stopped creating and marketing HD DVD products now, leaving us stuck with what they gave us. It’s now old technology, sweet.

Good post I think.