Henry Blodget says that MySpace could be worth $15 billion (yes, that’s a b) in a few years.  He bases his argument on the current value of Yahoo.  He also says it could be worth less than Newscorp paid for it ($600 million).  While I’m not sure Henry did much other than set out the vast range of possibilities, he ended with a sentence I very much agree with: “One big search deal–and an obsession with music-related content–will not a $15 billion company make.”

In related news, Forevergeek debunks the myth of 100 million users.

Zingu: fun with photos.

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I really, really enjoyed the Scoble Show segment with Thomas Hawk.  I could watch him shoot and talk about photography for hours.  I probably learned more about photography from that segment than most of the photography books I have read.

Tom Morris talks about the SXSW panel on tag skepticism.  No one, and I mean no one, in the real world cares about tags.

Firefox 2 Release Candidate 1 is out. Ars Technica takes a look.

Limewire gives the RIAA a taste of its own medicine.

Farmgate asks if America still needs its farmers.  The answer, happily, is yes.  Read this interesting post to understand why.

Bad Teddy: a Paddington Bear kills 2500 fish in a fight at a fish hatchery.

I watched The Matador this past weekend and thought it was great.  I was not a Pierce Brosnan fan before, but I am now.  A must see for fans of offbeat movies.

Every Simpsons episode.  Online.  South Park too.

Seth Finkelstein on the future of the internet.

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GideonTech has the 10 worst tech portrayals in film.

Robert Scoble introduces his new video podcast.

Dwight Silverman has an interview with Apple target Russell Holliman of Podcast Ready.

Groom, brother and father fight over booze at a wedding reception. (via Obscure Store)

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The Pew Future of the Internet II report tells us that by 2020, we’ll be living Bladerunner-style:

Tech “refuseniks” will emerge as a cultural group characterized by their choice to live off the network. Some will do this as a benign way to limit information overload, while others will commit acts of violence and terror against technology-inspired change.

Wisdump has its Top 10 Web 2.0 losers.

Techmeme has enacted sponsored posts- an interesting advertising angle.  Here’s Gabe’s announcement and here are the pricing plans.    Here are notes on the first three sponsors.  And here is Dwight Silverman’s take.  My initial thoughts are that this is a clever alternative to traditional advertising, and as long as Gabe picks the right sort of sponsors, it ought to work well.

George Ou on proof that Antivirus software slows your computer to a crawl.

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Men’s Health has 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body.

An amazing photograph. (via Dave Rogers)

Recommendation list for Science Fiction books.  My favorite science fiction book is one I read when I was around 12- Andre Norton’s Star Man’s Son.

Top 10 coolest things spotted on Google Earth.

SportsLizard has 5 reasons why video downloading won’t catch on.  I agree with all of them, but the only one that really matters is reason number 5.

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Windows Media 11 will be DRM-crazy, with no way to back up your licenses.  This is one of the many reasons why I have never and will never buy DRM-infested music.

Here’s a page with lots of handy geometry links.

Dumb Little Man on Why Top Employees Quit.

TechCrunch has a post on the redesigned MeeVee site.  I have been using MeeVee a little.  The thing that kills MeeVee for me are those video and other ads that pop up when you click on a show for episode information.

Jeremiah Owyang reports that Paypal will soon offer online storage.

Beware the dangerous TIVO.  I don’t think I watch more TV since I’ve had TIVO, but I do watch different TV.

Zooomer has announced a new email feature.

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Neatorama has a story about 10 Scientific Frauds that Rocked the World.  Good heavens Miss Sakamoto – you’re beautiful!

Copyblogger has 5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang.

And if that doesn’t work, play the personality card… The Prometheus Institute (the sheer power of that name bends me into linking submission) has Five Tips to Increase Your Likeability. 

50 of the Funniest Homer Simpson Quotes. “Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.” (via Randy Morin)

Fred Wilson on the haphazard approach Technorati seems to take when it comes to updating blog stats.  Fred never gets updated.  I get updated every few hours, but my linkcount bounces up and down like a basketball- my numbers today are probably half what they were 6 months ago, and I get a lot more links now than I did back then.  Technorati is good for seeing who links to you so you can respond, but I’m not sure it’s all that accurate as far as the stats go.

Rosa Say on Humility in the Workplace. (via Richard Querin)

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DVGuru compares 10 video sharing services, including YouTube and Google Video.

Neil Patel on using Digg and Netscape to get blog traffic.  I haven’t really used either, and didn’t know it was cool to Digg your own posts.  I have Digg this links at the bottom of my posts now, so feel free to Digg my LP to MP3 post– I did.

Techdirt (the one mega-blog I’d read if I could only read one) on Yahoo’s newest adventures in DRM-free music.  If Disney would get behind the anti-DRM movement, it would help a lot.  I just wish Google would take a break from collecting all our data and tossing ads in our face long enough to join the fray.

Marshall Kirkpatrick has an excellent post entitled A Week in DRM Wonderland.  Marshall makes TechCrunch tolerable for me, and I suspect a lot of others.

Sizeasy lets you check the size of something you might buy against the size of all such diverse things as a deck of cards, a wine bottle and a computer monitor.  Very cool, but it should have more choices for comparison- like a configurable table or shelves.  (via DownloadSquad)

Fred Wilson has given up podcasting, saying it’s too hard.  We are still waiting for a desktop application that makes it as easy as it could be.

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Here’s a great resource for anyone trying to learn CSS.

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. (via Christopher Carfi)

Ed Bott gives a great tutorial on using ISO files.  Very timely for those wanting to install Windows Vista

Lifehacker has 15 ways to get more out of Pandora.

Jeremy Zawodny asks: Are Dolphins Smarter than Costco Employees?

David Berlind on TIVO and DRM.

Here’s an amazing 4 year old drummer.

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It’s good to hear from Dave Wallace.

From the eBay as Exit Strategy Department: Madhens.

Warner Music and YouTube make a licensing deal.  TechCrunch asks the only question that matters to anyone other than YouTube: “It’s also unclear who will pay the royalty fees; that payment may come out of the advertising revenue or it may be demanded of the individual users who have put Warner music in their videos. That could get interesting.”

Seth Finkelstein on the fruits, or lack thereof, of investigative blogolism.

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