Newspapers have been declining in prominence and relevance for decades, well before the Internet and bloggers came along. Many newspaper titles have disappeared altogether, or have been merged, in response to the growth of radio and television. The emergence of the Internet simply reduces the market for newspapers even further. Newspapers will not disappear altogether, [...]
READ MOREFinding truth on the Internet
From Mark Colvin on Twitter: Asked wolfram alpha ‘What is truth?’ Answer: ‘Additional functionality for this topic is under development’. The search goes on. I tried it and found that you can also leave your email address and be ‘notified when it is ready?’.
READ MOREYahoo: organising the web’s music content
From readwriteweb: ”Yahoo introduced a new version of its Yahoo Music artist homepagestoday, which now include links to YouTube videos, Pandora radio stations, Last.fm, and photos from Flickr. Yahoo also plans to open up its API so that others can build applications for Yahoo Music, and, at a later point, artists will be able to create their own customized pages on Yahoo [...]
READ MORESpam, spam, spam
Slashdot | Spam Back Up To 94% of All Email.
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What makes a geek giggle?
From 10 annoying habits of a geeky spouse: 5. Wearing obscurely geeky T-shirts to “normal” places - Every geek has at least a few of these; don’t try to deny it. We love them, because we get the jokes and we know that only other geeks will get them, too. Unfortunately, they can make our less [...]
READ MORESunday evening is the new web peak period
According to new research by Britain’s Ofcom: one big shock to come out of the detailed research is that the peak rush hour, when average web speeds slow to a crawl, is in fact Sunday between 5pm and 6pm.
READ MOREDell makes a million bucks from Twitter
It’s a small beginning but as Twitter is currently free (but they’ll have a business model real soon), it’s all upside: some businesses have discovered that Twitter is an effective way of communicating with consumers. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says Twitter has produced $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half through sale [...]
READ MOREWhat will the world look like after the media is gone?
Bloggers love to speculate about the death of the media and the death of journalism. They’ve been doing it for years. Big-time bloggers, Jeff Jarvis and Dave Winer, are at it again. A new round of speculation, this time trying to envisage what our world would like if the media did actually die. Dave Winer, [...]
READ MOREWeb 2.0 in just under five minutes
This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007 and was enormously popular especially with presenters at conferences.
READ MOREHuffington: Obama would not have won without Internet
If 1960 was the year television came of age as a political force then maybe the same is also true of the Internet in 2008: Huffington says flat out that if it wasn’t for the Internet, Obama would not be president. Trippi notes that Obama’s YouTube spots gathered an aggregate of 14.5 million viewing hours. [...]
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