This story about managing the "digital living room" looks interesting in this TechWeb article: "Hollywood is deathly afraid of the possibilities that new technology offers consumers, and this is going to dramatically impact Apple’s ability to deliver the same experience in the living room that it has on the iPod. ‘Companies in dominant positions are [...]

There’s a great opinion piece on The Huffington Post today about a mind-shift needed about the former roles of information providers and the "audience." Essentially, the author, Jay Rosen, spells-out why that’s over.
The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people
of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes [...]

Here’s a good article from NYTimes about new services that enable sharing large files like video files with a restricted audience. It’s aimed at families, but why not work groups?
Do-it-yourself broadcasting rolls on,

People who love books are as passionate about their cause as people who love Relay For Life. The Wall Street Journal today has a nice write-up on the eCommunity Library Thing. Library Thing is for people who love to read and want to share their collections and experience with books and reading. Want to meet [...]

Now everybody’s speculating about what Gates will do with all that money. Here’s a little look back at some other biggies of the past.

An article from the NYTimes suggestes that physicians are managing to find time to be with patients–when the threat of losing customers is strong enough. Interesting quotes:
…doctors know that as walk-in medical offices and
retail-store clinics pose new competition, and as shrinking insurance benefits
mean patients are paying more of their own bills, family care medicine is [...]

Geez! No wonder Bill Gates is semi-retiring from Microsoft to manage his foundation. Now it turns out that Warren Buffett is turning over $30.71 billion (that’s right, billion!) to Big Bill to manage. This will make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the biggest philanthropy of all time.  And with all that moola comes a [...]

This meeting was in CA recently, and it looks interesting. The web site says, "In today’s chaotic, interconnected environment, success requires the ability to identify key relationships, and to stand out from the crowd. New industry ecosystems are developing, while new forms of innovation emerge on top of connected platforms. Supernova 2006 focused on how [...]

This week's podcast is about Flickr. Flickr is my favorite Online Photo Sharing tool and one of the best examples of the highly hyped Web 2.0 or Living Web technology. Flickr makes it easy for your volunteers and staff to share and post photos and leave comments on those photos. You can even subscribe to [...]

Interesting article in today’s Wash Po about how more and more news sites are using consumer voting to select the mix of content on the site.