Tuesday, October 10, 2006

If you build it they will buy it

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted.
Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty.

Google buys YouTube (there's some weird twisted irony in there)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127436-page,1/article.html

They only paid 1.6 billion in stock shares (are you kidding me... dot com stocks... even Google ones... yesh)

Bottom line is corporate America is all to happy to buy out anything that seems cool or grass roots... provided thousands of people are using it.

Wow can't wait for CocaCola billboards in my next first person shooter that I play... oh wait they already do that too!? meh

1 comment:

Kyle The Opinionated said...

"...but glittering prizes and endless compromises, shatter the illusion of integrity."

Very apt quote for the subject matter.

Thus falls another bastion of independent thought and publication in America. They'll probably target Blogger next. Oh, wait a minute....