Podcasting Profits

Mike Orren: "Earthlink joins the hordes trying to do local via aggregation, in this case using Topix and Google." He also notes that "any successful local play has to be a hybrid of original content and aggregation." (which the Earthlink product is not) Mike’s right.  The aggregation can help jumpstart the community with consumer generated…

cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)

MeetUp.com came to fame because of the Howard Dean campaign.  Despite inroads by conservative groups like Townhall.com which has registered 24,000+ activists through the site, most of the top 15 political groups listed on the site are left-leaning.  In fact, only 3 right of center groups appear on that list.  MeetUp suffers from the public…

Robert Scoble takes a crack at the question of how to make RSS simple for users.  I agree that we should make things simple for readers whenever possible.  I have even argued in this space in the past to come up with another, more user-friendly name for RSS. But then I got to thinking.  Are…

A VC: The Anti VC (tags: comments) Bring on your comments (tags: measurement MediaMeasurement) 14 rules for fast web pages (Skrentablog) (tags: HTML programming javascript)

Telecom Asia – Ringtones and caller ringbacks get personal: Nametones are not that different from "true tones" that wireless subscribers with MMS-enabled handsets can download and use as either ringtones or caller ringback tones. But instead of a song having its usual lyrics, a nametone seamlessly integrates a user’s name into the song.