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I have decided to coin a new phrase today.  "Blackberry brevity."  I have realized that when I type emails on my Blackberry-esque device (it is actually a Palm Treo 700w), I often abbreviate — not only words, but I curb the length of my message to avoid having to do more thumb typing than absolutely…

Henry Copeland of BlogAds goes ballistic on those who call blogs consumer generated media: Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the "clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus." The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it? He certainly gets wound up on the subject.  And he has a point —…

AOL press release: TVEyes revealed that its Podscope search engine will be integrated with AOL Search (http://www.aolsearch.com). In the coming months, AOL will offer visitors the ability to discover thousands of additional podcasts through the integration of Spoken Word Indexing(TM). This innovative search capability will allow fans to get audio search results and sample from…

MediaPost Publications – Cymfony Meshes Blog, MSM Monitoring (tags: Blogs MediaMonitoring NewProducts) Mobile Media Measurement Firm M:Metrics Measures Gets $7 Million Invesment (tags: MediaMeasurement VC) AOL to take Blogs’ Pulse via Intelliseek (tags: Aggregation Blogs) Data Mining: SonicHealth is Yoogli Another blog monitoring tool to launch (tags: Blogs BlogMonitoring)

The John Edwards podcast attempts to strike a folksy, casual tone.  The former VP candidate talks about the NCAA tournament being on in the background while he records with wife Elizabeth. But what really struck me in listening was that Mrs. Edwards plays a much more significant role in the podcast than one might imagine. …

Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question.  First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately.  But I would also…