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The Business Case for Online Video Has Been Officially Accepted
Chris Crum over at WebProNews reports on a TurnHere research survey that analyzes “current and future trends in online video.” Amongst the many findings, one figure stuck out to me: “83.5% of respondents are already using online video in their marketing efforts in one form or another.” That figure was particularly surprising to me (although ...
Livebrush: You Can Create Modern Art Masterpieces
One of my favorite lesser-well-known blogs to read is RefreshingApps, a site devoted to discovery and review of Adobe Air programs. The culture of Adobe Air app creators is somewhat different than what you see in the wilds of the web or for any other platform, so what ends up getting reviewed is generally more ...
Is the Tech Blogosphere Inherently Sexist?
In case you’ve missed it, Sean P. Aune, Steven Hodson (of the Inquisitr) and I do a daily podcast focusing in on one issue, theme or news item of the day called CobWEBs Daily Edition. It’s a fun show, and we get to be as grumpy as we like, which suits our personalities quite well. ...
Marketing Pilgrim Baffled and Surprised by Twitter Marketing
I’ve read Marketing Pilgrim daily for close to three years now, ever since Robert Scoble recommended them as part of his daily reading list. Over the years, he’s been pretty vocally against services like BeAMagpie, claiming that they’ll off him a good opportunity to “to clean up my follow list on Twitter should it really ...
Data Portability and Lies, Damned Lies
Back in July, I had just about hit the absolute limit on the amount of fawning over the Posterous platform I could take, from the likes of Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble and Wayne Sutton. All of them indicated that they were “platforms of the future,” and Steve Rubel even said that it, as a lifestreaming ...
Lifelogging: A Guidepost in the Convergence of Reality and Virtual
I’ve seen this story crop up a number of places this weekend: Lifelogging. This version from “The Raw Feed:” Smile when you talk to research legend Gordon Bell. You’re on candid camera. Bell wears two cameras around his neck all his waking hours. One of them he calls a SenseCam. It takes a digital photograph ...
Jermaine Dupri: “The Music Industry’s Middleman is Dead” [#BWE09]
From my periphery, I’ve always kept an eye on Jermaine Dupri. He’s been an interesting character to watch, a canary in the coalmine (so to speak), when it comes to the state of the music industry. Jermaine’s history has been as one who from birth was firmly entrenched with the establishment. Jermaine Dupri, born JD ...
You Have a Right to Pursue Happiness, Not a Right to Happiness [Broadband as a Right]
Technology Liberation Front blogger Adam Thierer made a solid point regarding Finland’s decision to make broadband access a fundamental right for it’s citizens: it’s absurd. He demonstrated the absurdity by being absurd, a practice I myself try to engage in whenever possible: Hey people. You owe me. All of you. You owe me free broadband. ...
The US Department of Energy Launches $32 Million Scientific Computing Cloud
Late yesterday, it was reported at NetworkWorld that the US Department of Energy is looking to explore cloud computing initiatives on their own (and independent of the NASA initiatives) to the tune of $32 million. The initiative is being paid for by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (or the Stimulus Bill, to you and ...
In an update to my story from late yeste…
In an update to my story from late yesterday on the Sidekick data loss situation, it now appears that all data has been recovered: “We are pleased to report that we have recovered most customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage,” corporate vice president Roz Ho said in ...
