links for 2005-09-29

Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? (tags: VC Web2.0) Beltway Blogroll: Patrick Ruffini Is Now Chillin’ For The RNC From blogger to RNC e-comms staffer (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics)

Thanks to all who shared their advice on the right bag to use for my laptop and D-SLR camera/lenses/accessories. I ended up selecting the Lowepro CompuDaypack. I took it with me to Washington, DC this week and it fit all my gear, if a bit snugly, and was able to be stowed under the seat…

For all of those folks who can’t blather enough about waiting for the "next generation" of iPod that has video or who are excited about video on cellphones or who insist on writing off today’s audio podcasts as a mere stepping stone to video in the future, I have one message: remember the Sony Watchman….

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 —…

AP has the latest on FEC efforts to regulate politics online: "I like to think of myself as just a guy with a blog, but it’s clear that ‘just a guy with a blog’ is different today than it was when I started three years ago," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Web log…

Yahoo-Backed Group To Digitize Library, Academic Content (tags: NewProducts Search) ABC, CBS and NBC Inch Closer VOD Launches (tags: OnlineMedia) Politics and Technology: Politics in a Match.com World (tags: OnlinePolitics SocialNetworking) Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How Consumer Generated Media and the Virtual Handshake will Make or Break Your Business Conference to be held in…