Arthur’s Stumbles

Best line : “More good times is both my ethics and my morals” Jack Nicholson

If you have time :

Would read : Haruki Mukarimi +cloud computing /petabyte in Wired
Would see/listen to : Anything Timbaland has produced
Would go and visit: Rana Creek in Big Sur or Salle Pleyel in Paris
Would go and eat: Kisssushi in SF

What I stumbled upon :
http://blogging.vc/bvcapital/alexa-query.html
Compare all the sites traffic you wanted to compare
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/
founder of technorati
http://www.stumbleupon.com
Download this you will be browsing all over again
http://popurls.com/
incredible what RSS can do for you 40 000 unique visitors/d
http://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/home
ahhh …skype
http://trepulia.com/
if you have a real-estate envy the best mash up in that domain

What I read and hear:
1. Social network for the kids
2. Travel in a network, www.tripmates.com ,www.Gusto.com,www.realtravel.com
3. The Coming out of blogg agregator ( blog her+moneyblog+gawker + FM media )
4. “Demo” conference from tech.crunch
5. Youtube numbers :34 M unique this month/ vids.myspace.com 17.9M/
Google video 13.5/ MSN video 12.0/Yahoo video 6.0
6. Murdoch and the blogs

“As Dick Parsons, the CEO of Time-Warner recently reflected1, Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace “appears to have been a masterstroke”. Well… good to know that he is taking a similar positive view of the deal2 as me. My positive outlook reflected my high enthusiasm about social networking and social media in general, which, as those close to me know, I saw coming from a mile away.
I must admit, however, that I did not see the blogosphere coming. The rapid emergence and popularity of blogs most definitely took me by surprise (which is one of the key reasons I decided to blog for GigaOM (thanks Om!)… I needed to understand the phenomenon from the inside, and I get it now). I bring all this up because I believe the blogosphere is about to come face-to-face with the “social media mogul3” himself… Rupert Murdoch.
20 years ago, Murdoch saved the British newspaper industry. In an incident known as the “Wapping Dispute4“, Murdoch waged war against the print labor unions and forced them to accept less labor-intensive computerized printing technologies. Wapping proved to be one of worst industrial strikes in modern history, yet at the end, Murdoch’s aggressiveness and foresight saved the newspapers from a death spiral caused by technological obsolescence.
Today, the newspaper industry is again facing many challenges and possible extinction. The fiscal problems plaguing iconic brands like the New York Times5 and the Tribune Company6 are well documented. But the problem this time is not offset-lithography… it’s the rise of the blogosphere. Simply put, it’s centralized content production and distribution vs. decentralized people media. I have now learned, first hand, how blogging competes with traditional newsprint reporting and publishing.
In a similar vein, Murdoch has learned about the power of people generating content through his ownership of MySpace. Ross Levinsohn, the head of Fox Interactive Media, said precisely that during one of the panel sessions at this week’s OMMA7 conference… where he states “if Rupert Murdoch can give up control, I think anybody can give up control… if they don’t let the consumers participate in it, it’s not going to go anywhere” (hat tip to I Want Media8). So where does all this leave us? If I was a betting man, I’m going to bet that Murdoch’s next move is to acquire a blogging platform… either Six Apart9 (which owns Moveable Type, TypePad, LiveJournal, and Vox) or Automattic10 (owner of WordPress). And if he does, it can prove to be his 21st century “Wapping”.
7. Lots of press on Jajah the VOIP 2.0
8. The growth of Netvibes
9.http://www.buzzlogic.com/