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 […]

Arrested Development, Online Syndication?
What may not work on the small screen may work on the computer screen. That is what MSN executives are betting as they acquired the online syndication rights to all 53 episodes the critically acclaimed show for three years.
It should be interesting to see what kind of the traction the show can […]