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a case of the mondays: I need something to gain a cult-like following, something that might get me featured on Patrice O’Neal’s Web Junk 2.0 on VH1. What would get people to part from their money, something never done before, something that would get people saying, “OMG, you won’t believe this site!” (via Cosmos)
Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack: ’s people uploading photos to iStockphoto where companies and people who need photos can buy them on the cheap. It’s VH1 sourcing videos that “ordinary” people have uploaded to the internet and building a show around them. It’s Proctor & Gamble finding underemployed brainiacs who solve thorny science and engineering problems at InnoCentive. And it’s Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ”¦ outsourcing fundamentally simple and repetitive problems that humans still (via Cosmos)
Jointblog - The Blog Site For Media Trend Watching: In an April 4th blog post, he says "Some industry analysts believe that tomorrow's hyperactive teens will be tomorrow's Interactive TV users. Don't bet on it." Considering all the positive transformations in the past year -- one million new broadband users this quarter, the rapid rise of viral videos, podcasting and TV show downloads for purchasing (not to mention the HUGE undermarket of peer2peer file sharing of both audio and video content) -- Swann's comments pricks a hole in possibly over-inflated hopes for the New TV of the Near Future. (via Cosmos)
Tech Manifesto: After editing and adding the effect quickly in Windows Movie Maker, I posted it to a list of sites to see how far it would go. The list includes: YouTube iFilm Web Junk 20 Myspace MuchoSucko Break People at first on YouTube picked it up and commented how funny it was. (via Cosmos)
[Publicknowledge.org] Policy Blog | Public Knowledge: Service providers could, for example, shut out Web sites whose politics they dislike. Even if they did not discriminate on the basis of content, access fees would automatically marginalize smaller, poorer Web sites.
[Sacbee.com] California Insider - A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel ...: Twenty-five years ago, Joel Garreau wrote "The Nine Nations of North America," in which he described a .
[Gondwanaland.com] Mike Linksvayer: Addendum 20060601: The next time Google or similar ask publishers to do something the results of which can only be evaluated by the asker a committment to publish an evaluation should accompany the ask.
[Landed.fm] Landed.fm, On-Demand Internet Radio - The Voice of Career Success ...: . The next global war will be fought over human capital--and America's already losing. Immigrant brainpower has always been vital to the U.S. economy, and never more so than today, when half of the Ph.D.s working here are foreign born. Emerging economies in Iceland to India are taking bold steps to lure their native born back. The best and brightest in America are returning to their homelands in record numbers--and with them is going U.S. technology and economic preeminence.
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