Dan Gillmor points out p2p-politics.org on his blog. The site allows you to post home made political videos for (or against) a candidate. Particapatory media is a meme on the rise, and is tied in with many of the other…

Very interesting! It reminds me a lot of BzzAgent.com, a rather clever marketing group. I’d be more than happy to get paid to blog, so long as it doesn’t impact my credibility. Where do you see this falling between Paid…

Deeje Cooley emailed me a link to a Warton b-school interview with Macromedia CEO Rod Burgess**, baiting me to post on Rob’s comments on PointCast. I’ll pass on that 😉 but say this instead. All of this talk about Flash…

PortalPlayer’s Bid to Join iPod’s Party I gotta say, I’m pretty surprised that Apple doesn’t see the opportunity in buying these guys on the cheap (they certainly have negotiating leverage)… or the threat if one of their competitors does. (Kinda…

I had a chance to talk with Henry Whitfield, founder of TelID.com, on October 10th, 2004. (For those keeping score, Henry and I met through LinkedIn.com.) What is TelID? A surprisingly simple idea for marrying web addresses to phone numbers…

Doc Searl’s differentiates podcasting from internet radio (streaming), imparting upon us the necessity for this to be so to insure podcasting remains free from regulation (and legal persecution from the NAB & RIAA). Why podcasting isn’t radio | Doc Searls’…

I had the pleasure of meeting the charming (and surprisingly soft-spoken) JD Lassica (and about 20 other fine folks) at a dinner that he co-hosted with Marc Canter in San Francisco Wednesday night. JD was there to raise awareness and…

Update 2: Blockbuster has just announced that they will drop their prices starting Nov 1 to meet Netflix’s lower price. Mike over at HackingNetflix.com does his usual bang up job of providing comprehensive coverage of NFLX news with his post…

From the article linked to in the headline: “Our customers have encouraged us to offer low-priced online DVD rentals, but we have no announcements to make at this time,” Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith said In the understatement of the year,…

Want to find reliable local businesses? Yelp! believes it’s the answer (as do about three dozen other sites). Yelp!’s approach is just a tad bit different from sites like Tribe.net, in that: – The UI is purely activity/task driven. Users…