Michael Gracie 

Maybe newspapers had reason to be paranoid after all. Let’s file this under “one foot in the grave.” UPDATE: While this would seem like a crisis for those in print, the Economist notes that Google hasn’t really faced a crisis yet themselves. Nevermind. UPDATE 2: Matthew Ingram says Google and the wire services just torpedoed [...]

And figuring out if they’re really your friends too… There’s a new set of standards being developed which aims to make it easier to discover existing friends on new social networks you join – the initiative is called The OpenFriend Project. It’s building on the chit chat from a few weeks back, and is being [...]

Should read “Bloggers battered by viral storm“, but that wouldn’t really be news. Meanwhile, all’s quiet on the “kick ‘em crew front (maybe because they’re all using WordPress and OpenAds).

Ugly – With financial services representing roughly a third of online ad spending, what happens to the Web 2.0 trend (so dependent on advertising revenue) if said cash flow disappears? It’s probably not going to be pretty. Uglier – Investment banks are soon going to be pouncing on each other, trying to convince the markets [...]

Following up on my Skype on the Blackberry experiment… I wound up using the IM+ for Skype program very little, primarily because I start getting SMS messages instead of Skyped the moment I leave my desk. The program worked fine the few times I did use it, but it still gets a big F-. Why? [...]

I found this part more interesting: Two weeks ago, financial services advertisers made up the single largest sector on the web, accounting for 34% of all impressions… Watch the markets, and predict next quarter’s advertising take.

The title is a complex way of saying: give me the power to transfer data between sites I use, with the help of OpenID. There are other initiatives being worked on along the same lines, including OAuth. OpenID, TAS, OAuth…FOAF, SNAP, etc. etc. Fun times. PS: As data portability goes, the Social Network Portability Google [...]

The person who snapped this photo was more impressed than I was. After the release, I was coined a “trout guru.” I could only laugh. While catching a healthy brown on the second cast of the first hole you step into isn’t a bad way to start the day, you won’t be the bodhisattva of [...]

TV networks would like to think otherwise, but unfortunately it’s just less TV viewing. Next up: newspapers blame declining readership on the tendency of newsprint to become blurry when wet.

According to the venerable, combined force of the Associated Press and MSNBC… Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge. “You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know. It could be [...]