Thirteen hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube. And, according to YouTube founder Chad Hurley, that figure will grow exponentially until online video broadcasting becomes as ubiquitous as toilet cats on YouTube.
Talk about life imitating The Onion … Apparently the recording industry’s institutional memory is about as solid as its crumbling business model. As recently as 2007 it was paying radio stations to play its music. Today, it’s accusing them of pirating it.
Viacom has a new online advertising partner and–big surprise–it’s not Google. It’s Microsoft.
Google is reportedly talking to Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls, about a joint venture in the Internet broadcasting market. “It’s a big idea on a global scale,” a source close to Fuller tells the Guardian. “It will change television in much the way iTunes changed music.”
Uh-huh.
Hate to say it, but the [...]
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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