Silicon Alley Insider’s Dan Frommer today is challenging Apple to move Apple TV from being a “hobby” to being a real business:
If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room’s “digital hub,” then Apple TV needs a serious overhaul, ASAP.
Why now? Because even though the industry is still nascent, the [...]

Jason Calacanis has published a smart post today, looking at the implications of Google Knol - and the idea that Google’s now a content company competing with Wikipedia, media networks and you as a blogger, vlogger or podcaster.
When Google announced Knol, we said “Google is looking for a way to monetize user-generated articles, effectively paying [...]

Shel Israel has posted an interesting article looking at how he’s begun to rely on Twitter as his “personal search tool”:
I am coming to trust Twitter as my personal search tool…and here’s why: I can consider the recommender.
Much of the information comes from people I already know and have chatted with online. Most of the [...]

Google’s got a big problem with YouTube - the melting-pot nature of user-generated media.

This, along with a billion-dollar lawsuit, courtesy of Viacom, is keeping Google from making money on 96% of its content.

It’s time for Google to settle with Viacom, and get on with building a business based on what makes YouTube unique - user-generated media.

Loren Feldman, the puppetmaster behind the puppet Shel Israel video blog, is moving on.
Puppet Shel Israel is a sort of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for new media, parodying “new media expert” Shel Israel, while scooping him with entertaining interviews, like this discussion with Digg’s Kevin Rose:

While Loren’s puppet has been scoring the interviews, Israel [...]

Time’s Jeremy Caplan writes that the “iPhone’s next frontier” is - OMG! - porn.
iPhone porn that threatens today’s youth.
Check out the drippingly lurid intro to Caplan’s article:
“Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be-updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs’ company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, [...]

Journalist Bill Moyers addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008. 
Moyers challenges the current state of mainstream journalism in his talk:
“You couldn’t find a more revealing measure of the state of the dominant media today than the continuing ubiquitous presence — on the air and in print — of the very [...]

Earlier in the week, Elisabeth noted that Barack Obama had wrapped enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination and that he is actively using podcasting as part of his campaign strategy.
Obama has run a remarkable campaign, and his campaign’s has made innovative use of social media, embracing not just podcasting, but Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, [...]

In April, we reported on Arbitron/Edison Media Research’s latest report on the podcast audience. 
At the time, we were struck by their stats for the podcast audience, which showed that the audience for audio podcasts grew 38% in the last year, and the audience for video podcasts grew 45%.
Edison’s Tom Webster also has offered his take on the implications [...]

Social messaging/microblogging site Twitter today addressed some of the most frequently asked questions about the site’s infrastructure, frequent downtime and what the company is doing about it.
One of the most interesting comments they have is that Twitter power users are responsible for the site’s downtime:
The events that hit our system the hardest are generally when [...]