Citizen-Generated Media (CGM)

Broadband at 60% in US

Broadband penetration has reached a critical mass. Once this crossed the magical 50% threshold in US household connectivity earlier this year, some of the dots are now started to truly connect.  This demographic is among the most coveted and influential (people with money that effect trends) and can certainly be niche targeted as the economies of scale tilt back towards the entrepreneur for online video production.

Google Blog Search Beta – look out Technorati and PubSub?

In an effort to confer on blogging the same credibility that more established media possess, Jason Calacanis suggested that Yahoo and Google modify their search functions to allow for discrete blog searches. News, Web, and Images are not the only distinctions that matter to modern cyber-nauts.  In Jason’s view, the emerging prominence of blogging is a key factor in the reclaiming of democracy that citizen-generated media represent.