Circulation Plunges at Major Newspapers - New York Times: the most telling thing from this for me is that the NY tabloids reported increases in circulation. Why interesting? It points to the fact that newspapers are so caught up in authoritative hegemony that they forget to cater to the user interface of their product. They are in a sense narrowing reach by not pacing with audience in terms of how their product is presented. This does not just apply to the difference between broadsheet and tabloid formats for the readers, but also stupid things like pay-walls, demographic collection screens and other such hinderances to readership with their online products. Newspapers need to collapse. Physically and metaphorically.

Are You an Average YouTube User? - Mashable!: some interesting stats about YouTube users which pretty much says: all age groups, lots of time spent, short length videos. The only other interesting thing for me is that the average YouTuber has uploaded 3 videos. That seems high. I’d expect 1.5 or so, because that number reflects a high degree of participation against idle spectatorship.

Point: How is TiVo Doing After Launching Series 3? - Gizmodo: is the Tivo death-watch back on?

Advertising Age - Better ROI From YouTube Video Than Super Bowl Spot: small point of contention here. The biggest problem that happens when a new media phases in as an adjunct to old is that people immediately go binary to an “old”/”new” mindset. This is dangerous. We saw this in the first dot-com bubble. People discounted traditional business for “new business” and new media and did not find nor seek a way to marry the two. What I want to see happening is people taking stock of what new media offers to old, and figuring out the best things about either and then blending the two together. That being said, the Dove ad would have cost a metric fuck ton for the Superbowl and not had the same degree of “wow” that it did on YouTube (because of the latent desire for repeat viewing). However, this does not discount one-to-many distribution models at all.

Drupal 5.0 beta 1 | drupal.org: here we go….. I’m in the middle of a huge scale drupal project, so this is exciting news. I’ve used Drupal for four years now, and to see how far its come is very inspiring.

Chris Pirillo is moving… and I for one hope its to Toluca Lake so that there can be two very short guys with black rim glasses wandering around.

Sling Media - SlingPlayer for Mac OS X Public Beta Download: well shit. I may just have to try out Sling now. Fuck. And I told Amy our home entertainment cabinet would be totally under control.