Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Ragheb Alama Website Team….

It was interesting to hear all of your thoughts about the future of (small) newspapers. I do not have a newspaper subscription either.

- What do you think about the future of the newspaper business as a whole?
- Will newspapers die and news will just be put online?
- Whatabout possible business models? How will the industry get money out of that?
- Will the quality of articles suffer?
…

Ansgar

Plugging a regular phone into a box that plugs into your broadband is far simpler and is much closer to a normal phone experience.

Brad Feld has a thoughtful post about what he calls the dynamics of information.  Essentially, it is the notion of dealing with information overload: It’s not just an issue of tuning the sources, or the filters, or what you pay…

http://www.touchstonelive.com/blog/2006/09/missing-point-on-talkcruch.html

In regards to breaking news, it’s a shame you use a Mac or you could use Touchstone for that. But Marshall already gives me enough hate about our lack of mac version so please don’t join in.

There is no MP3 audio for episode 12 in the feed.

I think you’re wrong about “Widgets”, and I assume you’re mostly talking about WordPress widgets. Do we really need the equivalent of Windows 3.1 for a blog’s sidebar? Generally speaking, geeks will delve into code and non-geeks will go with the default themes. Maybe (the afterthought) Wordpress.com needed “widgets” to make that site a little more attractive to the few pseudo-geeks that can’t see the benefit of a cpanel-like hosting account.

I was hoping that you would talk more about the algorithms behind Digg and Techmeme. That’s the frontier–algorithm vs. algorithm. With so much traffic at stake, you know that the “voting” system will evolve to be very sophisticated. Ask yourself: How will these algorithms interact? How do we react to algorithm changes? Once Digg mobs adapt to the changes, what will be Digg’s next move? Algorithms will change without notice, like the P.K. Dick randomizing suit in A Scanner Darkly. And the prize? Traffic, lots of traffic. The best algorithms will be the pride and joy of news aggregators.

“Weird” was a good way to describe Digg. And I agree with Om that it’s mostly for geeks and nerds at this point. I think the real issue is that non-geeks don’t understand why they should “vote” on news, submit news, etc. No offense, but even Gen-X is too old to “get it”. I would guess that most Digg’ers are in the 12-22 y/o age range. I’m 31 and Techmeme feels more my speed. But your continued interest in Digg has me interested in TalkCrunch’s Digg-gang hazing ritual.

MacFixIt is collecting issues, and they discuss iTunes transfer difficulties with some internet connections, but the symptoms seem different from what you describe:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20060922070217742

Can you guys please fix this or is it my QuickTime (the new one) having issues?

I know when you 3 get together…you all rock!!! Looking forward to see the video.

TIA.

A meeting of the blogger minds has been unleashed on TalkCrunch today (September 24, 2006). The podcast, which is part of the CrunchNetwork, brings together Om Malik, Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington to discuss a number of topics ranging from…

Another busy week of Web Tech news and analysis. Here is what we covered on Read/WriteWeb during the week (number of comments in brackets)… OneWebDay: In Celebration Of The Web (2) - looks like this didn’t take off in a……