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The global economic crisis is happening everywhere, including Second Life.

Newspapers need to redefine grocery lists

Some interesting discussion happening on Twitter and blogs about online grocery services.

One of the symbiotic relationships in the ‘old advertising’ world is that of the local newspaper and the local supermarket. I actually think newspapers shoulsd get involved in helping local merchants communicate with the local communities.

If you think about it, it’s just like being an A-list blogger for the local merchant community. As long as the voice is genuine it will work.

But you see, I’ve been building newspaper sites for almost ten years now and if I told my team that they should get involved with conversations about their readers grocery lists, they’d think I was nuts.

But it doesn’t sound crazy to me. I wonder if I am nuts.

Lance Ulanoff is a fool.

It’s amazing that a company would pay this guy to write.

It’s an old article. I just stumbled across it in a search.

I’m no fan of MySpace, but where does he get off criticizing what a site looks like when the one he is writing for looks like a circus itself.

What a fool. His musings about Twitter are ridiculous if only for the reason that he is pontificating on whether a service will be around five years from now. Who the hell knows?!!

I’ll bet PC magazine will be irrelevant before the name Twitter is, even if the company survives longer. What am I talking about, that’s probably true already.

Sulu.TV : Twitter Commands

I’ve been having so much fun with Twitter lately.

The latest is a service I created that I call the Sulu Virtual Terminal. If you follow the ‘sulu ‘user in Twitter, you can use it as command line to get the weather or search Yahoo, etc. I’m adding a new command every other day or so.

Not sure what Sulu stands for. Simple Userland Utility?

You can follow the progress over at http://sulu.tv

Jarvis on NPR: WSJ,Facebook,

It was nice little surprise to hear Jeff Jarvis on NPR during my morning commute.
Jeff was being asked about WSJ and commented how becoming more ‘news’ and less ‘financial’ would give it more reach and a broader advertiser base.
It made me realize that we are headed toward being a country with three news organizations. Maybe four.
NYtimes.com, WSJ.com, USAtoday.com and wherever the privately held Tribune company (LATimes.com etc.) might land.
Obviously I’m heavily favoring the newspaper companies. It will be a more complex rollup than that, but you get my picture.
Further, it makes one wonder whether each of these organizations aligns themselves with the online players, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and maybe Amazon or even eBay. Or is it Facebook and the social network arms of these players that find a partnerships.
We already see that path shaping up with Yahoo’s recent newspaper deals.
Of course, one has to wonder how WSJ and MySpace could ever marry each other since they seem world’s apart, but I’m betting that changes in both of those organizations will over time have them creeping toward a common ground.
What do you think?

@locals day 4

Over the weekend I threw together @locals, a twitter app that creates groups based upon the location setting in your Twitter profile.
Just do a twitter reply to @locals.
Traffic has been slow at http://atlocals.com but it’s been well worth it to watch the posts from around the world.
Stowe Boyd came up with the idea of virtual locations like “Not LeWeb3″ and a few have followed suit.
This one is posting from “Hell.”
You’d think that group would be a little more active. (I was going to say hotter, but you would think I planned that joke)

50 cent on the dollar sound good

Duncan from TechCrunch just posted about how artist “50 cent” gets the current state of the music business.
Maybe he does, I don’t know, but Duncan doesn’t give me any evidence that he does.
In fact, his presumption that file-sharing doesn’t hurt the music biz is ludicrous.
What he is trying to say is that if you embrace the changing world you can profit from the change rather than die. This is true.
Most recording artists have a better chance of making a living now than ever. File sharing helps in that regard, yes.
But the music business is hurting. Why? because they were all about distribution, and now that’s free. Just like Newspapers.
That doesn’t necessarily mean bad news for artists, because they can go direct to their fans. What the industry will consist of is smaller (and large) companies that support the artists as they tour and market their art.
Sounds fine, right?
Not if you are used to owning the artist and being in the drivers seat.
That’s where the music business was. If you belonged in that world, file-sharing is an axe in your trunk.
Mike Arrington should start editing these posts. Who is watching the register?

@locals

A twitter app/aggrgator based on the location setting in your twitter profile. You can create groups based on your location, which can be anything. “Stamford, CT” , “themoon”. Whatever.

You just need to follow the twitter user ‘locals’ and post @locals and the site aggregates the posts.

Also, the RSS feed gives a nice link back so you can reply to the group, again by posting to @locals.

UPDATE: http://atlocals.com
Ad hoc groups with a location twist.

More

It’s been a while since I watched it. The best movie I’ve ever seen:

http://www.gethappy.com/watchmore.html

Twitter goes dowwwwn

Haven’t seem one of these pages since I was learning how to install PERL scripts in the nineties. ; )