Sequential Logic

A Reuters article entitled “Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak” takes the cake for the most ridiculous reporting I have seen today. The author takes statistics such as “…0.16 percent of visits to Google’s top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch…” and “…two-tenths of one percent [...]

I saw a post on TechCrunch about a new video sharing/aggregation site called Magnify.net. Magnify.net allows you to link to other video sites that allow embedding (Youtube, Google Video, etc.), and aggregate videos from those sites to your Magnify.net “channel”. It also allows users to upload video directly to the Magnify.net channel, with configurable options [...]

I’ve been reading Valleywag for the past couple months, and enjoy their mix of humor and commentary a great deal. However, they have one habit that I find extremely annoying. Take a look at this post. For some reason, when they mention a company or person, they feel the need to link that mention to [...]

A few days ago when Apple/EMI non-DRM’ed music was the hot story of the day, CNBC’s Power Lunch ran a clip about it. After the clip ran, Bill Griffeth wondered aloud about how that couldn’t be good for their business, because those files would surely appear on the peer-to-peer networks.
I’m guessing Bill hasn’t logged on [...]

The comments following the TechCrunch post about the new SanDisk/Yahoo media device quickly hammer home the generational difference in MP3 player usage and music consumption.
In a quote from a Yahoo guy about the device, he brings up the often-heard argument that “..we all know iPods are mostly full of not-paid-for MP3s.”, and then numerous people [...]

Jack Dorsey of Twitter and the L.A. Times Travel Show “How Will Travel Change You?” guy:

Many people have been asking us what tag to use for blog posts, Flickr pictures, etc. for the upcoming Podcast and New Media Expo 2007, so we’re going with newmediaexpo2007. Hope to see you there.