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 […]

For the last decade and a half we have heard a lot of talk about the need for the modern worker to become computer literate. What this means has always been a bit ambiguous—one of those loaded concepts we throw around in conversation but struggle to define when asked. What does it really mean to […]

The 1 Percent Rule… and my resulting corollary:
From the Guardian:
It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.
Click here for the whole article.
Pretty interesting […]

The corporate veil. The standard use the term refers to the ability of individuals who own or work for corporations to protect themselves from lawsuits by invoking the laws and clauses which regard the corporation as a separate and distinct entity, apart from the individual. That is to say if you slip and fall at […]