Tristan begins to deconstruct Media Businesses (caps intended) as a whole in a Big Way (again, caps intended). Can't wait to see how he moves this idea forward.

Modular by Design - Introduction I've been looking at the different trends in digital media and have started developing a common theory in terms of the issues relating to music, TV, phone service, weblogs, and software and the impact the internet has on all those business models. From there, I came to a conclusion that what the internet does well is break apart what were once aggregated products in its smaller components, wreaking havoc with the economic models established around the bundling concept. [via TNL.net weblog]