How Poopy is Your Diaper?

In a few weeks, two Harvard graduates, both in their early 20s, will unleash to the world a new social networking site. Call it a Facebook for fetuses.

In the meantime, I will be playing in traffic.

Because when I think of terrorists, I think of Rachael Ray

The Associated Press reports that Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

[via CTV]

But where the heck is it?

There’s so much talk about the challenges traditional media faces from social networking and Web 2.0 technologies, but I don’t think any of them are excuses for not remember the 5Ws.

So just where will this new store be?

This Is Why People Bittorrent TV Shows

Series Four of the current incarnation of Doctor Who will debut on the CBC on September 19th.

The series is already half done in the UK but we still have to wait despite the fact CBC is a co-producer and that we have a specialty channel here called BBC Canada. To add insult to injury, this will likely delay the release of the series on DVD.

If You Could Sell Children Online, I’d Be A Father Several Times Over

Parents arrested after baby offered on Craigslist. This comes on the heels of a German woman who put her baby on eBay as a joke.

Dot Bomb 2.0?

There has been a lot of chatter about the reliability of Twitter and just as much about its lack of a business model.

Despite the user uptake of Web 2.0 services, I still don’t understand how these services intend to monetize themselves, even if they are very useful – Remember the Milk comes to mind.

Facebook has yet to make money and even Google’s Eric Schmidt admitted recently that it has yet to figure out how to make money off YouTube.

Mark Evans has a quick post with some links that further explore the business models of Twitter and FriendFeed.Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, social networking, FriendFeed, Mark Evans, Twitter, Facebook, Remember the Milk

I Don’t Want to Be Hyperconnected…

… although when I do need to connect, it should be fast and easy.

I don’t believe being hyperconnected makes you more productive. I’ve worked with people who are online all of the time, through e-mail, text and IM, and they so busy connecting, they never get any work done.

Twitterless

Supposedly Twitter can deliver news quicker than traditional media.

Except when it’s offline. Again.

US Polar Bear Listing Misses Point

The main threat to polar bears is disappearing ice, not hunters. [via Quirks + Quarks]
Technorati Tags: environment, nature, global warming

Blogger code of conduct favored by near-majority of internet users

Nearly half (46%) of internet users favor the creation of a voluntary code of conduct for bloggers and online commentators, shows a survey by legal firm DLA Piper.

Technorati Tags: Web 2.0, media, journalism, blogs