It is really good to be back in the podcasting saddle again and it is made even more enjoyable with being able to work with Mark and Sean doing them. This week ended up being a real rib tickler but we did manage to talk about the following stuff:
- The Kindle DX … it’s not pretty
- Gillmor and his silly idea that Twitter killed RSS … we’ve invented a new verb for the cleansing of the InterWeb pipes
- The mess that is RSS readers
- The background advertising experiment over at The Inquisitr
- Apple buying Twitter
- Microsoft buying Twitter
- CNN buying Twitter
- YouTube trying out an extortion business plan
All in all it was great fun and I hope you enjoy the Cynical Bastards newest CobWEB podcast episode.
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To clarify: I've never said that CNN should/ would buy Twitter. I believe though that CNN may be thinking of doing a co-branded network/ webcast using Twitter to crowd source 'real-time' news. The amount of hyper plugs/ positioning being given away by CNN must be on the radar screen of the brass there. I understand local stations pumping Twitter to get engaged content but CNN? If it is just to be 'cool' then CNN has basically given up on trying 'the source' for news. But… what if… CNN used their 'pro-anchors' (used loosely) to anchor the live stream? It would not cost a lot and Twitter would share ad dollars (wow actually make money.) I can't see a down side here.
All we are saying is give chicken a chance! Still listening…I'm at the RSS is dead segment.