Congress to Hold Hearing on Blogs

 Lately I’ve been fascinated by the consumer generated content/media space.  And I’ve had a number of ideas of my own (which I may share later), but here are some interesting things going on this area now: iPodders vs. Non-iPodders ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com attempts to answer an interesting question: “So are Apple iPod users the ultimate influencers or…

An interesting statistic from the 9/5/05 issue of Red Herring magazine: 30 million Americans have downloaded cell phone ring tones and 78 percent of them (23 million people) paid for them.   

Three weeks ago, Kari Chisholm had an interesting post about how to build an email list.  (I’m getting caught up on posting interesting reads today, in case you didn’t notice the flurry of posts.)

Marketing guru Seth Godin points to a study about how visitors read news web sites. It’s all based on tracking technology designed to show what the eye is looking at on the screen. I’ve only had time to skim the report so far, but it is clearly fascinating reading.  Just take a look at the…

The EntreWorld Weblog asks what entrepreneurs think of RSS: Is RSS useful? What explanation is needed related to RSS and syndication? Is some other consumption method better like podcasting? I find RSS invaluable in allowing me to read a lot of stuff relatively quickly.  As a serial entrepreneur, I’m always on the prowl for new…

Scoble: I was over at Alex Barnett’s blog this morning and saw he linked to a survey that said that 87% of influencers use RSS. This is PRECISELY why I’ve been telling everyone to get RSS feeds and why they should be full text. If no one else in society uses them, this is enough…