I recently had a chance to talk with Michael Bazeley, a journalist at Knight Ridder’s San Jose Mercury Times. Today, Michael, along with partner Matt Marshall, launched SiliconBeat: News about tech money and innovation The blog’s a bit bare for…

JD Lassica notes Steep circulation drops at LA Times, Chicago Trib and attributes it to people “turning away from newspapers and toward online media”. Agreed.

Steven M. Cohen announces Feedster Hacks “Feedster Hacks is a weblog and directory for the various hacks that have been created with Feedster (Hence the name). My hope is to collect all of the useful, fun, and even oddball hacks…

This isn’t specifically about Netflix, but as it may impact their business, and I’ve been using them as a bit of a case study, I’m going to continue to track the trends impacting their business. This News.com article announces that…

UPDATE 4/5/2005 (post + 6 months): Google Maps now includes a satellite view courtesy of Keyhole’s technology No surprise here; after I called them a Local Search Sleeper after the Web 2.0 conference, Google announced this morning that they had…

John Battelle has an excellent write-up on Mary Meeker’s latest analysis. It’s good enough as is that I’m just going to point to it and hold comments until I’ve had a chance to reflect… John’s post here Mary Meeker’s analysis…

Apple announces iPod Photo(!), in 40GB ($499) and 60GB ($599) models. The new player offers 15 hours of music playback, or, 5 hours of photo slideshows. This is great news for the microcontent publishing meme (and sites like Flickr). Here’s…

FeedBurner.com has announced “SmartCast“, a new way for FeedBurner’s service to tweak your RSS or Atom feed. What is it (and why should you care)? It allows those who don’t have an easy way of building an RSS feed that…

Everyone’s running the AP story (link in headline), so I’ll try to add a few thoughts: 1) If I search, it’s through the Google search toolbar; it’s on any machine that I use regularly. The thought of having to go…

News.com reports that Akimbo will soon be selling their Video On Demand (“Queue and View”) solution on Amazon.com; Amazon will have an exclusive through December. As noted, this is not the rumored Amazon Movie Rental offering. The best part of…