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Read/Write Web 1/9/05 Business Blogging
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002630.php
Richard Koman's Blog 1/8/05 Are Blogs the New Journalism?
http://rkoman.blogspot.com/2005/01/are-blogs-new-journalism.html
SJM 1/3/05 Geek bling, From TVs to cell phones, gadgets these days must be more than just functional; they have to look good
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/technology/personal_technology/10555116.htm
NYT 1/9/05 Those I.P.O.'s Are Sizzling Hot. Uh-Oh.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/business/yourmoney/09ipo.html

By all accounts, 2004 was a very good year for initial public offerings. There were 242 I.P.O.'s, which almost equaled the total from 2001, 2002 and 2003 - combined. (略)
According to data provided by Mr. Moe's firm, nearly 4 in 10 companies that went public last year - 39 percent - were not profitable. That was a far cry from 1999 and 2000, when 74 percent of the companies going public were money losers, according to Ms. Killian, but the question is whether concern is warranted. (略)
According to ThinkEquity, 40 percent of the companies that went public last year had annual sales of less than $50 million.

Inside Google 1/8/05 Marqui Goes Podcasting
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/08/marqui-goes-podcasting/
Scott Loftesness 1/8/05 PodTails, I've been thinking about podcasting a bit, doing some listening around, trying to find what's interesting.
http://www.sjl.us/main/2005/01/podtails.html

After burning some time doing this, reading how Russ' morning commute was so enhanced by listening to a podcast, etc. it struck me that what's really different about podcasting is how it further changes the shape of the "long tail" distribution of site popularity as, for example, compared to the same popularity distribution function for text-based weblogs.
Because podcasts are simply so much more difficult for us to find time to listen to (vs. reading/scanning feeds for news and blogs for example), there will naturally be a more significant concentration of popularity among those few who are committed to the format in a way that actually builds a repeat audience. For the rest of the podcasters, the tails will be very long and slim, much longer and slimmer than in the blogosphere. (略)
It's going to be fun to watch how what amounts to a new "competition for our time" shapes up. In addition to reputation systems, what are the other business opportunities that might flow from podcasting?

InfoWorld 1/7/05 One week in IT history, I was reminded of that fact while reading this week’s issue. Nearly every article, although important in its own right, also fits into one of the grand trends that are rewriting IT history. That’s not unusual; it’s pretty much true every week. But this week, it might be interesting to list a few of those trends and also the specific articles that embody them:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/07/02OPeditor_1.html
1. The increasing tendency to deliver enterprise software as a service
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/26/48FEhosted_1.html?s=feature
2. The maturation of open source
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/05/01/07/02OPconnection_1.html
3. The daily moving and storing of mountains of data
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/05/01/07/02OPreality_1.html