MIT Technology Review notes how active the big TV players are in trying to crack the mobile market.
the networks themselves are looking at ways to create their own mobile content for sale to cell-phone subscribers. ABC, for example, has an entire division devoted to mobile content.
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PodBlaze offers a white paper on the business impact of podcasting. It was airplane reading for me recently and it does have a number of interesting nuggets, as well as some data on forecasted growth. At times it is a little awkward to read and it veers between a business and a technical perspective —…
An interesting article in the Washington Post identifies a growing issue for the interesection of technology and advocacy: email overload in Congress. If you think you’re swamped by Internet spam, pity the poor Congress. According to a new study, electronic messages to the House of Representatives doubled to 99 million from 2000 to 2004. In…
According to Tom Evslin, it is a book published in blog format. But it is more than just a simple format change: Evslin has written a novel, Hackoff.com, that makes the entire blog experience, including comments, an integral part of the content, according to Fred Wilson. Unfortunately, the site seems to be down right now,…
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…
Brian Oberkirch notes that it is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Unfortunately, I’m at DEMOfall and didn’t get to read this post until just now (barely still Pirate Talk Day here on the West Coast) and now I feel like a bad Dad because I forgot to talk to my eldest son like a pirate…