Pulling Your Own Strings (Or Fred Wilson’s Idea To Destroy YouTube)

MySpace creating something so bands can sell MP3s will have no impact.

Bands are already selling there MP3s on MySpace.

But at least they are offering tools.

It’s a smarter idea than Fred Wilson’s.

Putting a pre-roll on YouTube would kill it.

Friday Remix (The “Good Video/Bad Video/New Video” Edition)

The Blog Herald has a great post about online video that matters.

The Importance Of Living On The Edge (Or The Unimportance Of Lie Detector Tests, Federal Judges, Not Being Charged With A Crime)

The center collapses.

That’s part of the age we live in.

The New Media Back Up Plan (Or The Importance Of The New York Times Or The Unimportance of Digg)

An interesting discussion developed on Fred’s blog a few days ago about new media.

As we move into a niche culture certain things happen.Things get more efficient. It becomes easier to target people.

But something else happens.

The generalist becomes more and more important.