Arrrghh! This is part of what drive me nuts about Web 2.0 

myFeedz describes itself as a "social newspaper." Via Steve Rubel, who, to his credit, doesn't pick up the descriptor, saying instead "new Web 2.0 application that calls itself a social newspaper."

I could be flying off the handle, jumping to conclusions (wouldn't be the first time), but a cursory look tells me the product is more about relevance than society, like TailRank, and they're tossing in the word "social" because it's the current hot idea. Ugh.

Report forecasts growth in advertising on blogs, RSS and podcasts 

Story at Chief Marketer.com.

According to the study conducted by PQ Media, podcast ad revenue is supposed to surpass blog ad revenue in the next four years.

I'd link to the report but it costs $900. I've never worked for a place willing to buy something like that. I wonder if the market for reports from analysts is healthy. You'd have to think it's affected by the trend to people expecting free content. Wonder if any of the report factories have studied that trend!

Plus, I don't trust the analysts to have a handle on online stuff. Or even to ask the right questions, or draw the right conclusions. For example, last year you saw all kinds of analysts concocting this invalid syllogism:

  - Kids have ipods.

  - Podcasts are related to ipods.

  - Therefore kids are the main audience for podcasts.

And I'm sure many decision makers bought the logic, even invested money based on it.

Last night's West Wing 

Great moment when Josh reprises his meeting interruption act.

I'm ambivilent about Donna's deadline for Josh. Sure, she knows him best and knows he'd stall until one of them dies. Even so, it makes me uncomfortable and strikes me as manipulative. She might force him to make this choice, but what's ahead for them next time there's a choice to make?

Nice mystery with Bartlett and Santos secretly in cahoots.

Conversation with my son 

Me: [Online, giggling]

Adam: What's funny?

Me: Oh... it's an insider's bloggers joke.

Adam: So you're saying it's not funny.

He's leaving home 

My older son is moving to New Jersey in a few weeks. The younger son spends a lot of time at his dad's house, so it's going to be a big change for me.

We've had an arrangement for years where the computers and desks and TV and game consoles are all in a big corral in the living room. You might not think so, but it's a companionable way to be together.

I may need to recultivate some old friends after I enjoy the aloneness for a while.

Latest favorite snack 

Sliced cucumbers and chopped hardboiled eggs with blue cheese dressing wrapped in a tortilla.

Jump right in. The water's fine -- it you got a big enough pool. 

I turned off recording in the GestureBank beta because when Steve published the GB100 group activity I could identify my visits too clearly for my comfort. It's early private beta, I know, a risk I took, but still...

Reminds me a little of a guy I knew whose alcohol treatment showed up on a summary report of his company's Employee Assistance Program. Though it was anonymous, it was broken out by department and employee level, and if a department was small enough, there's only one person it could be.