links for 2005-10-04

Youtube paying for content, radio and the Viacom Lawsuit…the net result (tags: youtube payingusers) PodTech Interview on TechStars (tags: startups funding event) The real-world view of Web 2.0 (tags: stats) A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write – New York Times (tags: media outlook) Real Time – WSJ.com article on Belgian newspaper lawsuit…

Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year.  (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.)  I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …

Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice.  But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it?  In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater."  (For you lawyers…

Rocketboom, a nifty little daily web video news spoof site, plans to try subscription fees to monetize their content.  BusinessWeek reports that their current free approach is getting eyeballs. The approach is resonating with viewers. Daily downloads have doubled in the past six weeks, to 50,000. If they stay on that pace, they’ll soon approach…

I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out.  Looks pretty good.  A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349) I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s…