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It seems I always end up either starting a post that I never finish or collecting a pile of URLs I want to write about and don’t. Rather than let them go to waste, I thought I’d try something I’ve seen used to great success on other blogs — the link dump post!
Seth Godin’s experiment in using humans as content aggregators has been taking a few rough shots lately. Squidoo is a site that offers individuals the opportunity to collect knowledge on any topic, become recognized experts on the topic, and maybe make a little money along the way if their Lens gets enough traffic (I earned about $.02 myself so far, not ready to quit my day job). Michael Arrington has been the most vocal critic of Squidoo, writing on TechCrunch, “Squidoo may generate some content creation growth, but I don’t see it generating serious page view growth under their current model.”
Radio—or as some might argue, audio content—now comes in many flavors. By the way, the radio biggies already get the fact that they are really in the content business. The name “radio” originally came from radio waves, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that was licensed to stations to broadcast their programming to the public. However, in all its present forms, the term radio seems somewhat archaic. Audio content is now available in many ways: tower broadcast (regional), satellite broadcast (global), iTunes and podcasts (time shifting and global), Internet radio (global), and many other audio content competitors such as CDs, audio books, etc.
Steve Ballmer has announced again that Windows next generation operating system Vista might be delayed past the January 2007 date set the last time he announced it was behind schedule. At the rate Vista keeps getting delayed, we’ll all be driving hover cars, running Mac OS XX before the install of the Vista update. Part of the delay, I’m sure, is that Microsoft hopes to make Vista as easy to use as the Mac OS, which as you know people that love it just can’t stop talking about how easy it is to use.
On this Friday-before-a-holiday (in the U.S., anyway), a few links on media convergence, “getting” the web 2.0 movement, and a tool for generating fake public relations results.