Random Articles

• The 5 Needs of Internet Tools “So why did YouTube catch on? Simple — free storage.” - Dave Winer Exactly. In YouTube’s case, I’d also throw in format conversion. Converting video into a format that is small and viewable by anyone with a Flash player is a opaque and geeky process. The reason they clicked - they did the conversion and spit
• Favorite Website of Oct 24, 2007 IsItChristmas.com makes me giggle - especially because it has a feed. Thanks davedelaney.
• Suburban Living Not Cheaper Than Urban Living File under Things You Already Knew: “The costs of longer commutes are so high that they can outweigh the cheaper mortgage payments [of suburban living].” - Washington Post (Thanks to GroovyGreen.com for the pointer)
• Wolf’s Den  This weekend, I popped by my alma mater for a few hours to briefly catch up with some people that went through the same foreign exchange program I did. Of the few (of hundreds) that brought themselves to a small, rural Wisconsin town from the far reaches of the globe - there are a handful
• RE: What is the next podcast brand? “…there’s no strong brand in podcasting - except for iTunes. And iTunes doesn’t really care about podcasting. Which means there’s an opportunity there. The podcast format is still brilliant…” - Peter Van Dijck I think the first mistake made in podcast-land is considering it something different. Different than a blog, different than radio, different than video,