cruel to be kind

I am currently looking into a reliable and useful solution for a webconference / remote desktop software and while going through some search engine results, I came across this ironic but working commercial.

The Webinar Blog writes:

I just saw this short video from iLinc. It’s selling the concept of web conferencing as well as promoting themselves (natch). Nicely shot, not too sledgehammer in the approach, and warmly humorous. Top marks!

The rather Hollywood-looking sharp-dressed model in the video is none other than iLinc’s President and CEO, James Powers, Jr. It’s nice when the head of your company is so photogenic!

Bonus link: Webinarwire a “multi-author blog …

Social Media Tools are a strong tool set especially for musicians, but not all of them get this yet. Some others do – MSN Rockstar Supernova is a step towards this while for example Dave Navarro really embraces it.

Don’t know him? Well, if at all, most people probably know him as the ex husband of Carmen Electra, and Tommy Lee is more the ex husband to Pamela Anderson to me than anything else. Well, until recently that was.

As most of you know I may be ‘living’ more in the american podos-/blogosphere but with one big disadvantage: no US TV. Unless …

Watch “We are the internet“.

Now playing here for the 7th time in the background. How do I get an mp3 out of flash files again?

And the matter is serious as well. Don’t miss the other videos as well. (Creapy, yes. The sound still rocks.)

The song reminds me of the nice ffn baseline cd … that is actually the first cd in a very long time I want to grab out of my cd collection which I think I have not touched since uh 4 years?

Thanks to Tara.

Readers will know that I am a huge fan of West Wing – deeply a fan for the first seasons and an okay fan for the last ones. You know, for the Aaron Sorkin ones. Those are the ones I will rewatch for like the 4th time on DVD. And yes, i will be probably buying the seven season set, I already own the first three.

Now, his new show is coming out called Studio 60 and the first show is leaked on different sites including Youtube. I just finished watching it and am so looking forward to new episodes.

Now, …

As with many tools of the Web 2.0 area – some you like, some you don’t. Feedburner I do like. So I had to smile when I checked on stats today and was presented with this message:

We’re not embarrassed to say that we like you a whole lot. Yep. All 168,000 of you.

I feel special. ;)

If you are not a podcaster you can go to your next feed in your blog.

If you are one (or know one), here is a free promotion possibility for you: Promote your podcast at Podcastday 2006!

In short: Send in your podcast cover and get displayed on a slideshow. The reactions so far on this request have been quite positive and I expect such slideshow to happen not only on this conference but others as well. So hurry up and send me your cover! :)

Heiko asks: What would you ask Universal Music?:

On Monday I will speak to the management team at Universal Music Group’s German HQ in Berlin. I will talk about weblogs, podcasts, videoblogs… and how digital tools and technology change the way consumers interact with music (or any type of content).

I though about it and I don’t have a real question, more a statement.

The last times I did listen to radio stations I recognized the songs – even though I have not been listening to radio for a long time. I heard a similar argument from other podcast listener.

I don’t feel akward …

Just been listening to podcast all day and listened to some great music. The music industry probably does not like it but I have payed more money to artist this year than I have in the last 5 before together. Or 10?

Well, let’s correct that: I did spend the money “on the artist”. Not on the music industry. How was that claim going of them? “you need us so we make artist known, help them grow, and just help them to make money so they can concentrate on their music”.

Yup. The Internet has taken care of that too. …

This question is of course a bit unfair, as most people reading this will be blogger or blog readers themselves. :))

But as I am finishing my article for the new printed podcast magazine called ID3mag (first edition to be launched in May), I would like to gather some of my dear readers comments on this question. I came about this topic when I talked to a what I call “just podcaster” about all those little things a blogger does automatically when they enter the podcasting space.

It is my take that even a basic blogger often knows more about how …

I am not Earthlink. I am Pope, at least that is what the biggest German tabloid called us after the election of the new pope: We are pope. And I am Germany – if you had noticed the recent Technorati rankings for “Du bist Deutschland” (see also my post on “You read German, right?“).

Dave Slusher discusses the Earthlink spot in Shows from the Podshow network. If you don’t know or heard it before – imagine silly dingdong music and then – with voices like a happy mom on too many martinis:

Do you believe anything is possible? We do. We’re Earthlink. We …