Lorelle have a great post up on curing WordPress 2.1 paranoia.

The biggest fear I hear over and over again is that people do not want to upgrade because they are afraid their WordPress Plugin won’t work. This is a good example of how important WordPress Plugins are to our WordPress blogs, as well as how dependent we’ve become on them.

Basically, there’s no reason not to head over to Lorelle’s and see what it’s all about. Sometimes there’s just nothing to add, even for me. Go figure…

Originally posted on January 26, 2007 @ 2:34 am

Nielsen Analytics are said to reveal a study, entitled Whatever, Whenever, Wherever: How Broadband Is Redefining the Economics of Television (phew!), today about the benefits of advertising in broadband-tight areas of the internet. We’re talking video ads here, or ads in conjunction with video clips at least.

“The study concludes that programrs have the opportunity to create new revenue models to benefit content owners and their affiliated stations,” said study author Larry Gerbrandt, head of Nielsen Analytics. “With broadband streams, for example, fast forwarding through commercials can be disabled making it more likely the consumers will watch the spots and possibly interact with them.”

This is, however, not at the expense of TV itself:

At the same time, the study affirms that viewing video on broadband platforms has not come at the expense of traditional TV watching for many viewers. Household television usage has climbed consistently by more than an hour per day during the past decade, peaking at an average of more than eight hours a day during the 2005-06 TV season.

The Hollywood Reporter has more, sharing parent company with Nielsen Analytics and all…

So they concluded that video ads are a good idea, and that YouTube haven’t replaced the telly yet? Great work, hopefully there are more interesting tidbits in the actual study. Or perhaps this is exactly what old media needs to hear, get tattooed in the forehead, slammed in print and newspaper. My guess is that most of the 901am readers silently breathes “duh” when reading about this. Don’t tell me I’m wrong…

Originally posted on January 24, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

There’s a special over at Forbes.com profiling 25 web celebrities and ranking them of course, as well as pointing to near misses and crossovers.

The Forbes.com Web Celeb 25 is a list of the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet. From bloggers to podcasters to YouTube stars, these are the people who are creating the digital world from the bottom up.

OK, so it’s not journalism at its best, but it’s a bit of fun. Enjoy.

Originally posted on January 25, 2007 @ 5:31 am

This is just brilliant, spotted on Problogger.net, the famous and also outstanding blog managed by Darren Rowse:

If I didn’t know about John Chow I would probably have clicked that one. Brilliant.

Originally posted on January 24, 2007 @ 2:18 am