Google Gooses Big Media | TIME

Google Gooses Big Media | TIME:

"Now 'we've got to get used to an environment where people access our content in a variety of different ways.' Thompson sees this as an opportunity--the BBC signed a deal in early March to set up three new 'channels' on Google's YouTube site to show short video clips from its programs and share in the ad revenue YouTube generates. 'One of the things no media organization can do now is cancel the future,' he said."

Except for user volunteer contents, Google also tries to convince those big content producers to go with their distribution model.

Forgot to mention that Google has made 10.6 billion USD dollars revenue last year with 3.1 billion USD dollars after tax profit. It means Google generates 30% net profits by its business model. To give you a rough picture, Hong Hai (foxconn technology group) , the biggest company in Taiwan, makes 673 billion NTD dollars in 2005, roughly around 21 billion USD dollars. It's after tax profit is 40 billion NTD dollars, transferring to 1.25 billion USD dollars. The net profit margin is 5.9%.

台韓薪資差異及勞動市場研究

Major Ma had quoted report from the "Cheers" magazine to say that university graduate wage standard in Taiwan is only half of it in Korea. The word got spread via news media and caused some serious concerns. I was very suspicious of that information when I heard it. Here's a research report for reference to clarify some of the facts. It's a report done by STPI, a quango organization for technology policy research.

事實上，由南韓與我國的相關薪資統計去推估，南韓全體勞工平均名目月薪僅高出我國約兩成左右，況且，對照南韓官方統計數據，該媒體引用數據顯然有所偏誤。經進一步檢視，其所引用之數據在著以下幾項偏誤：一、樣本在企業規模等變項上不具代表性。二、樣本定義不同(KEF之定義為初任人員而非大學畢業社會新鮮人)。三、月薪計算基礎不同(KEF之統計包含非經常性薪資)。四、匯率換算誤差可能性。雖然該數據明顯誇大，但南韓近年薪資大幅成長，其主要原因包括：匯率變化、經濟成長率、企業規模與工會力量、員工分紅制度、工時差異、勞退新制實施、物價水準、高等教育與人力供需等因素。

The full report can be downloaded through this link.
Although the information from Cheers magazine and talk from Major Ma might be miss leading, Taiwan's economic growth is slowing down, GDP level is not high are true.