From DShort, via SAI.  Yippie.  Let’s plow another trillion into loser companies (US banks) and industries (US auto).  You’ll “save” a few jobs in the short term, but in the long term, the only jobs you will have created will be soup kitchen servants....

The headline to the news that advertising will shrink, and online ads might shrink by 5%, might as well be: quick, let’s fund more crap, if you ask me. Think about it: we have way too many ways to upload crap onto the Web, creating an influx of low-quality “content”.  Last time I ...

Is the venture capital glass half-full or half-empty? The VCs remain bullish: So why am I so sanguine about the prospects for venture capital as everyone seems to sound the alarm about Recession, the lack of capital, and the fear gripping the markets? It is simple: Venture capital returns are predic...

To wrap up the year, we will bring you a 2008 review / 2009 preview for each segment of the new media economy.  In today’s Part 1, we look at Video. I’ve now spent three years trying to develop a business around professionally-produced video content, publishing online, and syndicated ac...

The broader economy is certainly going to get a lot worst before it gets better.  In fact, worst does not even begin to cover it. Here’s more doomsday talk from none other than Yale’s Robert Schiller, found via SAI. But as the saying goes: there’s a bull market somewhere at all ti...

Hoping that the financial maelstrom is about to end soon?  Dream on: Pacific Rim nations assured the world Sunday that the global financial crisis can be quelled in 18 months, but provided few details of how they expect that to happen — or how their governments can help. The 21 economies, which r...

Caption reads: With this hand, I push my predecessor off the stage. Subprime to Deflation: tag, you’re it.  Subprime will go down as the “Word of 2008″ and trust me, “Deflation will be the word of 2009″.  First some background: From MSNBC: Although the risk is still c...

Here are the lists for 2007 and 2008.  Enjoy our Top 10 predictions for 2009, below: 1. Corporate Development: Shotgun Marriages 1.1. Consolidate or Liquidate: 90% of UGC and social media startups will shut down.  There are too many out there, so none will be able to charge for services.  But exc...

Video is now firmly kicking search’s ass… well, not yet in revenues (where it actually matters), but in terms of engagement: According to comScore, in May, in the US, people streamed 12B videos, but conducted just over 10B search queries. eMarketer says online video advertising revenue w...

Apparently, Veoh is joining VideoEgg and Youtube in companies trying hard to crack the online video advertising conondrum. However, these efforts are like trying to open up the tap some more to fill a bucket despite trying to block the big massive hole in the bucket. Veoh is going to try to target a...