Busy. busy. busy. Here’s some interesting articles on Disruption to tide you over.

If only Levy had realized this 6 years ago:

“The CD as it is right now is dead,” Levy (EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive) said, adding that 60% of consumers put CDs into home computers in order to transfer material to digital music players.”

Kent Newsome on the Demise of Television (although I wish he had tackled my question in the comments — I always find Kent’s input/thoughts valuable):

“It’s not the content of TV that is dead. It’s TV as a medium for that sort of content that’s dead.”

Further evidence of traditional media value chain erosion:

“To position itself for the future, Netflix has stepped up its efforts to buy distribution rights to independent films”

[Give special thought to: “Netflix uses data to make decisions moguls make by gut”]

Zillow: it’s not nearly high-end quality, but it’s cheap, good enough, and easy to use. When will we see traditional defenses to the disruption at a larger level?

Director David Fincher understands it:

“It means more movies can be made. The same people can be employed, but working on more productions. We can bring the cost of movies down, and give more people rolls of the dice.”

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