Parnassus Group (and a bunch of sponsors) will be hosting the third annual “It Won’t Stay In Vegas” party during CES, Friday, January 9, at the Atomic Testing Museum.  Promoters tout the attendance by and participation of Robert Scoble, as well as Gary Vaynerchuk, and Andru Edwards. Say the party organizers: “Gary Vaynerchuk has picked […]

Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Beatles music is, for the first time, available for download in a podcast from Norwegian Broadcasting. [This of course begs some dumb puns about Norwegian Wood. Isn’t it good? But we digress.] Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) made a 2007 documentary series on “Norgesglasset” […]

The Cleveland Leader, a competitor of grand old newspaper stalwart, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, reports that the Plain Dealer is considering renting out downtown office and parking space — space no longer needed due to “staff reductions.” The Leader claims that Plain Dealer employees received a memo Monday about leasing space in its newly-constructed building […]

William R. Patterson, financial advisor, author and host of the XM Radio show “The Power,” talks about the correlation between debt and depression (the emotional kind, not the economic kind) with host Bill Grady in the current episode of the You Are The Guest podcast. Much of the conversation is common-sense (i.e., anyone reading the […]

Online retailer Amazon.com announced today that its 40,000-item library of movies and television programs will now be available via the Roku digital video player. Previously, the $99 device only supported streaming video rentals from Netflix. According to the Roku website, “Rentals [from Amazon] are available in prices ranging from 99 cents to $3.99, for a […]

Om Malik has been writing for years about emerging technology and the people who shape the tech landscape. Malik used to be a writer at Business 2.0, and founded the GigaOm Network, (a technology blog and organizer of tech conferences like New Tee Vee). And despite being a long-respected authority on new technologies and new […]

Here in Iowa, in December, we are having predictably treacherous winter weather. A balmy 40-degree (F) day melts the snow, which freezes to a sheet of ice as soon as the sun sets. I not-so-gracefully slipped on my way into the grocery store Monday night. Lovely. I wasn’t hurt (well, not too much), just bruised […]

For the past week, our local newspapers and television have been preoccupied with three main themes: feel-good features about Christmas, horror stories about murderous ex-husbands dressed like Santa Claus, and expanded coverage of multiple waves of bad weather (snow, fog, ice, snow, and ice-jammed flash flooding). Pushed to the margins of the news (here, at […]

Rise and Shine.tv is in the midst of a daily holiday songwriting project, and everyone is invited to help create the songs, via the Internet. The exercise in spontaneity and creativity is the brainchild of Dean Whitbread, co-founder of the UK Podcasters’ Association (and a talented songwriter and musician in his own right). Rise and […]

Video search engine company Blinkx today announced the launch of “an Enhanced Metadata Enrichment solution for publishers” of online video. There were lots of big, Web 2.0 press release vocabulary words to plow through (if I ever see another announcement with the word “monetize” repeated so many times, I will have to retreat to a […]