Mind Control Division

Media intelligence through investigation and experimentation

The Mind Control Division is the intelligence arm of Blaine Kyllo's Solo Corps. This department conducts investigations and experiments into media culture, which includes, but is not limited to, writing on television, video games, and books.

I’m currently writing on video games ("Trigger Happy" in the Georgia Straight and "Joystuck" in FFWD Weekly), consumer technology ("Techno Logic" in the Georgia Straight), and television ("Remote View" appears at CinemaSpy.ca).

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Charging for news · 29 May 2009, 12:55

Good thoughts from Pat Thornton on how news organizations – newspapers in particular – should frame their thinking about trying to charge for the delivery of news online.

A couple of salient bullet points:

• You can’t charge for something that has been free for years without drastically improving it
• It’s much easier to charge for a new product or feature that was never freely available
• Even if a news org develops products & content worth paying for, it still needs plenty of good, free content

Read Thornton’s entire post.

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