Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion blog) ponders the possibilites of podvertising (i.e., advertising in, and around, podcasts). It’s an interesting read, both from the perspective of the solid job Rubel does laying out the (obvious) near term possibilities… as well as…

I’ve been a daily (at worst) reader of Techdirt for the last year, drawn by front man Mike Masnick’s insightful commentary (delivered with a consistent level of snarkiness that I can only envy). I knew Techdirt was selling some sort…

Scott Knowles of Websense points to the recently launched QuackTrack (a spin-off by the folks who produce BlogShares), which has a nicely structured index (i.e., directory) of 85,000 blogs. 85K blogs is a small, small percentage of the 4MM-15MM estimate…

Ken Jennings, of “74-straight-wins” on Jeopardy fame, becomes the spokesman for Microsoft Encarta. Brilliant.

Jeremy Zawodny (of Yahoo!) rips RayG (of Feedster) a new one for asking if search engines could increase revenues by inserting affiliate links into their search results. Jeremy states (emphasis mine): “If a search engine dropped in affiliate links in…

Nothing like the peer-pressure of consumerism in America at Christmas to spur a little Big Media advertising! I can almost feel the joy the National Advertising Sales teams at various newspaper chains must be expressing today in response to the…

(Note: Howard’s email address is bouncing… I’ll update this when I can get my hands on a live address. Update: Fixed) TO: howard_stringer@sonyusa.com; ann_morfogen@sonyusa.com SUBJ: Please stop your harassment of Jason Kottke Howard, Ann – In your roles, you may…

According to this article from AdWeek, Forbes has decided to stop using Vibrant Media’s “contextual keyword advertising technology” (known as IntelliTXT) in their editorial content, due to objections from their Editorial staff… but will keep using the technology in their…

Update: Kevin Newcomb wrote a solid article on Netflix Friends that touches on the business benefits of the new functionality. I’m quoted liberally, so if you’ve had enough of me after reading my product review, below, you might want to…

Appearantly, Sony TV thinks throwing the hammer down on bloggers who are earnestly helping them spread their memes (i.e., Ken Jennings defeat on Jeopardy) is a good idea; at least if the BS happening to Jason Kottke is any indication.…