More Funny Things on the Radio

-A NY writer who writes short stories (100-300 words) has been making a living publishing those stories in Tokyo on a website. Apparently, Tokyoites are using their cell phones which have bigger screens than ours, to read stories, newspapers, play games, etc, on the trains to work. For a subscription fee, readers can read stories from a book publishers website. One of his stories got over a 1000 hits.

How long will it be before people watch TV and movies like this? With all the studios going crazy over the pirating issue (500,000 rewards to theatre employees who rat on pirates) the dawn of digital distribution is just around the corner.

Someone better set up an itunes site for short movies, and figure out an economic model and the type of content that will sell...

DVD revenue already surpasses that of theater attendence.

The piracy issue is not all bad for hollywood. It demonstrates, there is still a demand for their product. So much of the incentive of the pirates is to get the movies faster, not necessarily that much cheaper. If someone could get theater chains up and showing the movie in China or wherever, as it opens here, knock down the price a little bit, they'd have a big market on their hands.

-last night there was a discussion on 97.1 about the different types of women by LA area code. 714-hot younger chicks who end up moving to the 909. 310-stuck up girls, not good marrying material. 213-would help you fix a tire. and so on...

the didn't mention the 323, which is my hood...and I realized I don't really know that many people outside 323 or 310. i'm a little isolated in LA in that respect, but I'm not really too worried about it. although if there are hot girls...