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Just wondering what podcasts folks are listening to. Aaron? Rich? anyone?

Today’s NYT carries an article that sites further evidence that the major music labels are getting creamed by indie music and net distribution and promotion methods. In a world of broadband connections, 60-gigabyte MP3 players and custom playlists, consumers have perhaps more power than ever to indulge their curiosities beyond the music that is presented…

This is by way of World Changing, Jamais Cascio quotes from an article in New Scientist Technology: The concept… is based on a central server that registers details sent by the phone when the photo is taken. These include the nearest cellphone mast, the strength of the call signal and the time the photo was…

I resolve to use Skype more in the new year. This only works if you guys resolve to do it too. Why do I want us to use skype more often? Well if we are skype chatting about something and then need to talk to close the loop, we can easily move from IM to…

Yesterday I saw a post about StructuredBlogging on Bryght’s Blog and on Kaliya’s blog and they piqued my interest. I was kinda surprised that I (or we) hadn’t heard about this conference before it happened because the concept of making blogs even more useful by structuring them with more machine readable data is really great.…

Anyone who has talked to me recently has probably hyeard me start blabbing about freecycling and freestores. I am very interested in it as a way of reducing waste and waste handling related problems (filling landfills). I was excited to see that NetSquared had an interview with the FreeCycle Founder I was super surprised to…

The NYT ran this article over the weekend about Rocketboom the pioneering daily video log which is now positioned to be a perfect video download to the new video ipod. As the article reports, with about 100k viewerd, rocketboom could be making big money selling adversing. The video is only a few minutes long and…

As I was riding the subway in my Santacon, I was reading the NYT Business section, and there, before my eyes was an article proclaiming that del.icio.us was purchased by Yahoo!? Hopefully this will mean good things for one of my favorite web2.0 sites, but there is a sinking feeling that came with the news.…

Props to Scott Trudeau for IMing me

If I had a dollar for everytime a voter got angry with me for calling them about an election and said “I am reporting you, we are on the do not call list!” I would have a few bucks (probably more if I put in more time on the phones 😉 I saw this letter…