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Scoble on To videoblog or not to videoblog.

The banana proves God’s existence. I think they’re serious.

What Teens Want. From a session at Web2.0. The big laugh line of the session was when Safa asked them how they’d go about researching information on a CD player they might want to buy. They looked at him in silent puzzlement, as if to say, “why would we buy a CD player?”

Terrorists use the Internet well.

Bitzi. “The Free Universal Media Catalog”.

The Economist on Sony’s strategy. via emergic

The Future of the Book from Xerox PARC is an interesting paper I picked up from The Social Life of Information by Brown and Duguid.

Reuters on war reporting through blogs.

The Newspaper Today is dead. Yet another blow to the pay-model. via Netahoy

Wow! Google News is completely revamped! via CNet

MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service. I take a photo, and send it by SMS. I take a video, and post it on my weblog through my cell phone. Nice.

For those as ignorant about the World Cup as I am, the FIFA website has a summary of Stage 1 and Stage 2.

Powerful thoughts against digitization. And since these days I need an excuse to justify the amount of paper I’m using, this article helps ease my conscience.

DivX 5 is out. Sounds good.

Weird news on the rise. A search for weird news on Google reveals popular news sites like USA Today, MSNBC, ABCNews and even Reuters (via Yahoo) taking an interest in this area.

Scantips. Ways to improve your scanning.

Google news. Life just gets better by the day.

The Times of India is going to make registration mandatory for its site. It’s free, but still, a pity.

The International Shadows Project.

e-ink on e-paper.

To those who’re curious about what’s happening in Russia, Pravda has been online in English for a while.

Sony Entertainment’s site has an archive of broadband content, including trailers, Sony TV interviews, etc. Pretty good!

The Webby nominees in broadband include Heavy and Yahoo Financevision.

Some press clippings about the IIM-B convocation (and me).

I cut an audio CD-R today. Remix downloads came in handy. Only problem is, I goofed up, and closed the session before fully testing the CD. So I can listen to the songs only on a computer.

Planet-M is online.

Stephen King has stopped writing ‘The Plant’. People downloaded the chapters, but haven’t paid. So he’s mad. Smart move.

Not that I’m into art or anything, but ever since I saw the Louvre, and came out wondering what’s so great about the Mona Lisa, I figured I may as well get some culture. The Van Gogh light exhibition is a good start.

The Kleinman report is another interesting (monthly) report on web happenings.