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Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
The Past of Podcasting — slipstream n. ... The area of reduced pressure or forward suction produced by and immediately behind a fast-moving object as it moves through air or water. intr. v. To drive or cycle in the slipstream of a vehicle ahead. — The sucking sound you hear …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Audible and its consultant — I usually don't quote flamers here, but these comments by Mitch Ratcliffe, in a rather longish response to Jeff Jarvis, Staci Kramer, Om Malik, Doc Searls and myself, says everything wrong about who I am and what I do. I think people might miss this, so here's the quote.
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Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
In which I engage Dave — Dave Winer has replied at length and critically to my last posting about the future of podcasting. I'm going to take his comments in my blog, which don't jibe with his tone on the long attack on me at ScriptingNews, up to the posting level, because I don't want this to get buried …
Greg Yardley / Greg Yardley's Internet Blog:
MP3 poor format for podcast monetization — I was thinking about the Mitch Ratcliffe pile-on while doing laundry and still don't quite get it. To recap: Mitch is a consultant for Audible, a downloadable audiobook company that's been around since 1997 or so and does about $60M in revenue each year - no small change.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Buckcasting — Dave Winer, a podcasting papa, adds this to the discussion about Audible's attempts to make a business out of measuring traffic and serving ads on what it calls podcasts (that is, what it serves in its proprietary format): … And Doc Searls adds:
Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
More on the future of podcasting — You will forgive me recalling that Bill Gates, richest guy in the world, once said that no one would need more than 640 Kb of RAM on a personal computer. As I read some of the responses to the Audible Wordcast announcements, I am repeatedly reminded of the folly of Gates' view.
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Redbarren / ben barren:Paying $30 CPM for Podcast Tracking is Insane
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
AOL to Have Reruns on Demand — America Online Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. are planning to put thousands of episodes of once-popular television shows like "Welcome Back Kotter" and "Chico and the Man" on the AOL.com Web site, where high-speed Internet users can view them for free.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM 'Rootkit' — Microsoft Corp. will start deleting the rootkit component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. — The software giant's Windows AntiSpyware application will be updated to add a detection and removal signature …
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weirdhat.com:
Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously — I'VE BEEN SLASHDOTTED! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!&nbs p; — So I got on the front page of digg, which I'd never even heard of before this happened but apparently is wicked popular, when a friend of a friend who didn't know this was …
Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Google gets analytical … Google is set to launch on Monday a free Web analytics service that will let companies see exactly how visitors interact with their Web site and how their advertising campaigns are faring. — The free hosted service, which will be available in English and 16 other languages …
Vladimir Cole / Joystiq:
Xbox 360s available 3.5 days early (Friday, 2pm ET) from Circuit City — Whoa whoa whoa, what's going on here? Circuit City's website has promised that Xbox 360 units will be available at 2pm ET this Friday. That's a good 3.5 days (82 hours) ahead of schedule.
Reuters:
Dell, seeking sales growth, embraces style, luxury — Dell is trying to spice up its image—and turn around lagging sales growth—by shaking Apple Computer's hold on hipness, but it may be tough to match its smaller rival's flair. — A recent Dell ad in Variety, Hollywood's trade magazine …
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu — Linux To Go — Many users get annoyed by everyday troubles that still affect Windows systems. Whether it is a failing driver, problems caused by poorly written applications or a virus infection, any consumer type version of Windows can be considered …
Adam Leipzig / New York Times:
How to Sell a Movie (or Fail) in Four Hours — IF you think life is moving too fast - hyped up with BlackBerries, blogs, podcasts and instant messages - imagine what it is like to run a movie studio these days. — It's bad enough that a movie's box-office gross revenues will decline …
