As usual, we’ll kick off the new year by reviewing the predictions we made for the previous year. Here now, our 2008 predictions, in italics, with hindsight in ordinary type. (1) DRM technology will still fail to prevent widespread infringement. In a related development, pigs will still fail to fl...

I think there are enough posts on the blogosphere advising us on how to blog. It is so typical: when you do not know what to write about, write about writing. I just finished reading 40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media on Louis Gray's blog. I am not going to argue with Mike Fruchter (...

For the purposes of this article I consider "Media" to include all forms of recorded information and/or entertainment that was historically based in the analogue world (books, newspapers, TV, recorded music, movies, etc). Over the last few months there has been an evolving conflict emerging in the b...

Dear Mike, I've been faithfully blogging for the last two years and just can't seem to figure out how to make $6,000 a month. I'm just a regular girl, and my blog even looks better than your shitty, basic Word Press template blog! What am I doing wrong, will my luck ever change?  C...

UCStrategies has a good post on the outlook for Unified Communications in 2009.  Some experts are saying that Unified Communications (and Web 2.0) are causing serious security issues for enterprises so I find that UCStrategies’ analysis is very compelling.  Here is the link to their outlook ...

Here’s Mashable’s latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. Not on this list? Contact us and let’s establish a media partnership. January 11-13, 2009: Affiliate Summit West is the largest A...

In print. Unfortunately, this example from The (Colubmbia, S.C.) State shows what's wrong with shovelware in a Web 2.0 age. Look at the last line. There is no "related story on this page" and -- it's the Web, dang it -- there's no link from that to the related story elsewhere on the site. Newsrooms ...

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Andrew Keene is the author of The Cult of the Amateur and someone who is convinced that Web 2.0 is leading to the end of civilization as we know it. (Mike) Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Keene's...

It seems that predictions I've made are coming true. Seems arrogant to say, but I make certain predictions, some people say I'm a blowhard, then when they come true, everyone forgets that I was...ahem...right. If you read what I said in "Web 2.0 and Korean Media" in December 2006, the summer after t...