Music sales
Oct 26th 2006
From The Economist print edition

Not surprisingly, America is the world’s biggest music market, with retail sales of $4.9 billion in the first half of the year. However, Britain, Japan and Norway, which is only the 19th-biggest market, buy more music per person. Rich does not necessarily mean big: Brazil, with sales of […]

Apparently no one could comment on my entries because of security errors. They’ve been fixed, meaning that you can shower me with adulation now. =).

I wrote the following as a response to a question posed to me on facebook. I’ve decided to make my response public because it reads more like a blog entry than anything else:
I’m predicting a fumble largely because I don’t think Google and Youtube can co-exist together in happy matrimony. Sort of like the couple […]

Well that didn’t take long did it. According to the Wall Street Journal:
“Over the weekend, News Corp. executives expressed their displeasure with the deal to Google and threatened to remove any links to YouTube videos placed by users on their MySpace blog pages, according to a person close to the situation.
Google’s Mr. Schmidt and Advertising […]

Pwned, I know.
I’ve been thinking about this deal for too long. Let’s see how News Corp reacts now that the number 1 and 3 video sites are now under one roof. At least Viacom didn’t pick it up, I’m sure that would have crush Murodch’s dreams of turning Myspace into the 21st century version of […]

The bulk of mainstream broadcast news has been pretty inconsequential and/or frivolous for a while (I want to say since OJ, but that might just be because I don’t remember much before then). With that said 2006 might  be remembered as the year that internet news that isn’t real news became news. From Facebook broadcasting […]

How do you spell psych? Is that right? In any event, I enjoy visiting Peter Cashmore’s excellent web 2.0 blog His latest entry, however, is a departure from the quality of perceptiveness most of his readers have become accustomed to.
On closer inspection of the press release it looks like comScore tracks unique visitors and not […]