Friday, February 4, 2005

Lesko's Corollary

Don't get mad, get even. — RFK (or was it JPK?)

Don't get mad, get a blog. — Matthew Lesko

No, ML didn't literally say that. But that's what his new blog does.

Bonus linkz: my corollaries to this, in resonse to this.

No wonder

Chris Locke: So here we have J.B. Watson, father of American behaviorism, packing up all he knows about eliciting the Pavlovian slobber reaction, and wholesaling it to Madison Avenue. In 1921!

And the first planet cooked is TiVo

Two new posts from Kevin Werbach: Supernova 2005 Website (S'nova is Kev's own show); and Who Will Buy TiVo for Scrap?

But what was he about to do with those hands?

This is funny. From Mary Hodder.

Scripting up

Jon Udell: Subscription Growth in Tech Blogs: January Wrapup. Comes complete with a #!/usr/bin/python script.

Here's a growth rate chart for selected blogs, including this one (which appears to have gone down in January). The Top 4 rockers are Joel Spolsky, Dave Winer, NYTimes Tech and Jon Himself.

BookThink

Jay Rosen: Gatekeepers Without Gates has been Greenlighted. He explains,

The deal is: I have agreed to a contract with Times Books, a division of Henry Holt, to write a book about the press and everything that is happening to it in these days of the Internet. The working title (although this will probably change) is Gatekeepers Without Gates. If all goes well, it will be out sometime in 2006, hopefully sooner rather than later in the year.

What it isn't

Interesting to see the enormous delta between podcasting and steaming.

For example, check out RRadio Network's latest (#28) survey results. The money stat: of 1,898 online radio listeners, 67.7% "do not own" an MP3 Player. (The boldface is theirs.)

Of those that do own a player, Apple's iPod leads, but not by an overwhelming margin: 22.1% to Sony's 18.2%, Rio's 8.1% and Creative Labs' 7.9%.

No mention of podcasting anywhere in the survey. Which may not be a bad thing, as I said last month in Podcasting Isn't Webcasting.