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Comment on A Taxonomy of Ideas? by AQ

AQ — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:41:28 +0000

This is a fantastic idea.

I think if you want a taxonomy representing a set of adjectives on a graph, you should consider plotting those adjectives on axes that are not also adjectives.

Comment on How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? by Cidney

Cidney — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:51:50 +0000

I think we could add a #4 which is video monetization. Now thanks to some online audio/video platform, artists/professionals/teachers (…) can make money with their video or audio contents. It is very simple, you only need to have a website and internet connection, then you buy some bandwidth from the online video streaming provider, set up your stream and broadcast live or vod. Then the provider add a paywall to the video, like that people who want to watch the video pay with paypal and they can even make a donation.

I personally advised video monetization for some of my friends, a rock band (DropMotion). They are not super famous (yet) but I told them about the fact that they could broadcast their concerts/gigs live and vod AND make money (usually the venues like it too, and advertise for it). It definitely works for them! They said that they actually bought new music instruments with that money, last time I saw them, made me happy ;-)

Anyway, if you were wondering who does that, I now there is TikiLive.com, MonetizeMedia.com and http://www.DaCast.com which is the one they use because it seems like they are the cheapest but reliable.

Comment on The True Size Of Africa by Ssemutooke

Ssemutooke — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:43:29 +0000

Who is this one fooling, misleading people with this wretched misrepresentation? This is the total land area of all continents, showing that Africa isn’t so large a continent as to be equal the total land area of Asia, North America, Europe…like that silly map shows.

The World: 57,308,738 Sq. Miles (148,429,000 Sq. Km) 100%
Asia (plus the Middle East): 17,212,000 Sq. Miles (44,579,000 Sq. Km) 30.0%
Africa: 11,608,000 Sq. Miles (30,065,000 Sq. Km) 20.3%
North America: 9,365,000 Sq. Miles (24,256,000 Sq. Km) 16.3%
South America: 6,880,000 Sq. Miles (17,819,000 Sq. Km) 12.0%
Antarctica: 5,100,000 Sq. Miles (13,209,000 Sq. Km) 8.9%
Europe: 3,837,000 Sq. Miles (9,938,000 Sq. Km) 6.7%
Australia (plus Oceania) 2,968,000 Sq. Miles (7,687,000 Sq. Km)

Comment on Hollywood Budgets – A $5000 Data-Viz Challenge by Doug

Doug — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:16:15 +0000

I take that back, when I try to copy a sheet I get: “We’re sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try reloading your spreadsheet.”

Comment on Hollywood Budgets – A $5000 Data-Viz Challenge by Doug

Doug — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:17 +0000

FYI, Make a Copy is not available to anonymous users, at least on this document. I had to copy each sheet individually.

Comment on How much does Hollywood earn? by wayne

wayne — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:33:29 +0000

Actualy movie studios can get as much as 90% of the box office. Whilst some movies have a fixed rental price, most operate on a sliding scale where cinemas keep 10-20% for the opening weekend which will increase every week. If a film is in cinemas for several weeks then the split will get to 50-50. But the movie studios have placed such an emphasis on opening weekends that this is becoming increasingly rare.

this is why cinemas charge so much for popcorn.

Comment on The Top 21 Albums of 2011 from 120 Top 10 Lists by Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:41 +0000

It’s worse than a list.
A list at least has a discernible order.

Comment on How much does Hollywood earn? by Trevor McCormick

Trevor McCormick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:35:03 +0000

I would love to also see the box office trend for average ticket price for North America superimposed on the line graphs as well! I really just can’t afford an $11 ticket (x2), +$9 popcorn, +$7 soda.. All the sudden your looking at $40 for 2 people to see some movie. Movies used to be a fun thing the whole family could go to, now that would cost $80 or more!

(PS, why spend that much on a movie when you can spend less on music or camping or something??)

Comment on How much does Hollywood earn? by Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:24:53 +0000

I’m sure I’m not the only one to balk at your introductory sentence: “Major anti-online piracy laws like PIPA/SOPA and ACTA are designed to protect the intellectual property of businesses like the US movie industry.”

PIPA/SOPA does not have that aim. PIPA/SOPA is using piracy as an excuse to gain legislative control over the Internet and would not stop piracy. There are far, far, far better and easier ways to actually combat piracy that are common knowledge among IT professionals but those are not part of PIPA/SOPA.

Love the website and visuals! Visualizing this data does in fact support the idea that they aren’t making as much as their boom year in 2004. Seeing that is priceless.

Comment on How much does Hollywood earn? by Avi Marcus

Avi Marcus — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:42:05 +0000

Is there a statistical way to account for the popularity of netflix (and itunes?) eating into DVD sales? Because it does seem that dvd sales are down..