Hot Media Issues Thursday, February 17, 2011 By Jerry Del Colliano There is a lot heating up in the media business currently.   BORDERS Is the book chain’s failure a precursor of the toll the digital revolution will take on brick and mortar bookstores?  There is something else important that the bankruptcy of Borders is screaming out at you and we’ll nail it down here. STREAMING TV Big network executives are throwing cold water on the efforts of video websites to allow replay of their TV programs.  Many prefer to keep them in-house and display them on their own websites.  But streaming TV just may be the hottest consumer category out there right now.  The mistakes you don’t want to make. WARNER/EMI What’s more important or significant than the sale of EMI or Warner Music Group.  FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND EGYPT Did the Facebook revolution cause the Egyptian uprising?  Really?  Why few have made sense of social networking’s real role in today’s world and why consumers are the same as downtrodden people under dictatorships.  I’ll explain. MUSIC PIRACY Something critical is going on right now in music piracy that will change everything. This article is about what is really behind some of the emerging hot media trends in the past month and what we can learn from them. If you would like to read this story, have access to my entire archive (over 1,100 pieces) and get the next month of my writing included, click “read more” for your choices.  Read more at Inside Music Media You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Inside Music Media Click here to unsubscribe or manage your account.