When Free Just Isn’t Cheap Enough

Radiohead gives music away for free – kids prefer to pirate it off BitTorrent anywayOK, this has got to have a lot of entertainment execs reaching for the Maalox. TechCrunch reports that even though Radiohead, in a much-ballyhooed move, allowed customers to set...

US Dollar Decline Hitting Web 2.0 Biz

Can you say “American Peso”? Interesting bit on TechCrunch this morning about an issue that has been much in my mind recently: the steep plummet in the value of the US dollar in the international market. Setting aside all the fears (which I hope are...

A Long Tail on My Face(book)?

Human nature shows up, gets drunk and pisses in the Web2.0 party punchbowl…No, my cats haven’t gone on strike and let the mice scamper all over my head while sleeping.  I’ve been geeking around with Facebook for the last couple of months, enough...

“The iPod Moment” for Newspapers Has Come and Gone

…while for TV & Movies, it is fast approaching, favoring the whip… Over at BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis asks when the “iPod Moment” will arrive for the other media (newspapers, magazines, TV, etc.).  Well, since you asked … The iPod...

Joost Takes Away the Red Velvet Rope

Joost now offers their beta to anyone who wants it For anyone wondering what all the hype has been about, the upstart online video-sharing service Joost, founded by the guys behind Kazaa and Skype, is now available to the public.  The site claims to have more...