NY Times: “I think the moment is right,” he said, to treat the Internet “the way we refer to television, radio and the telephone.” That is to say, stop capitalising its initial letter. It’s arrived and become part of our lives. The Telephone and the Phonograph once had automatic capitalisation in every newspaper style guide. But there came a point where the thing had become so familiar that it was dropped. [Scripting News]

The gulf between Big Content and the rest of us

Peter Chernin, CEO of Fox Network, gave a keynote address at Comdex — the first entertainment big-shot to do so. Jonathan Peterson has done a commented version of his talk. It’s very revealing and would make great material for a class discussion on digital rights. And here is an intriguing critical dissection of the RIAA’s statistical ‘evidence’ for their assertion that downloading is killing the music industry. The bottom line seems to be that the record companies are releasing far fewer albums than they did two years ago. No wonder sales are down.