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Congrats to Tony Conrad and Sphere for landing a deal with Time Magazine. I like the idea of getting away from link cosmos and going with something like content semantic analysis. I have been a fan of Tony’s ideas since I saw him speak of his Bmodel at SXSW. Anytime you can land a distribution [...]

It appears that Russell Beattie has stopped blogging. This is a major letdown, Russell was always one of my first reads in the morning. Great content and not part of the circle smirk “A list” that seems to be so prevalent.
Good luck to you Russell, even though you sold me an iPod that fell apart [...]

Jason Calacanis is looking for the quickest way to get his inbound link count up. Based on some link clustering graphs I have seen(one example below) of interlinking on WIN properties, something tells me Jason knows how to work the link farms cosmos.
Nathan Weinberg called Jason out on this awhile back and [...]

You see stories like this one from the Boston Globe, “Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career“, and you sort of say to yourself, “well, that is pretty obvious.” But when you stop and really think about it, with less than 1% of employed people having a weblog, in the formal sense, I guess we might [...]

Two stories came out today about the predicted revenue coming from social media outlets like blogs and podcasts.
From Forbes:
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research analyst Scott Kessler says the report — entitled “Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook” — predicts podcast advertising will see a compound annual growth rate of 154% from 2006 to 2010, up [...]

Niall Kennedy wrote a nice piece today about the adoption rates of certain technologies and how many times surveys don’t get it right. To use some of Niall’s words,
It makes much more sense to focus on current uses of the technology to determine the pervasiveness of new ideas.
I wrote earlier today about the adoption rate [...]