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Monday, January 03, 2005 |
 Business Week. Analyst predictions for the energy market. One thing these highly paid analysts don't account for: global guerrilla supply disruption.
3:46:43 PM 
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Finally, some good global PR for the US military. I am glad Powell was able to get Bush to reverse his earlier position.
1:54:34 PM
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What are we going to call the switch (inversion of proportions) in content generated by niche oriented microcastors vs. mainstream production companies? The gates are now being thrown open and in five to ten years the vast majority of the content you will have access to will be produced by "amateur" micropublishers (text, pics, audio, and video). Will it be the blog switch?
11:41:57 AM
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Congrats to Jordan at Cheese and Crackers for the WSJ mention on video weblogs. Here are the bitTorrent downloads of his Tsunami videos.
"For all you nerds out there, more than 1 petabyte of videos has been downloaded from this site. That's the equivalent of over 300,000,000 mp3's. Wow."
11:18:44 AM
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WSJ (subscription). Video blogs take-off (say goodbye to Podcasting as the hot topic) with unique Tsunami videos. The problem that has to be solved is bandwidth costs. The solution is integrated bitTorrent or something better (I almost got this something better done 2 years ago!). It's really funny that something that I wrote about 8 years ago (as an analyst at Forrester) is finally getting done.
NOTE. The rapid rise of blogs that include unique video of events (as well as "personal broadcasting shows" of interest) will be an interesting source of content for PC Home Theaters.
9:27:30 AM
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Suck. My youngest brother is headed to the American base mentioned in this attack.
9:12:28 AM
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CNN. The US continues to overstate its success against Iraq's global guerrillas. The removal of a single guerrilla entrepreneur means little.
9:10:32 AM
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Iraq's oil minister estimates that the sector has lost $8 billion in export revenue due to global guerrilla activity (the impact of this disruption on the global economy is measured in hundreds of billions). Oil disruption is also being used to impact electricity production (system's leverage converts small attacks into large ones). The Dura refinery has been attacked 11 times in the last two months. This refinery provides fuel for the production of the majority of Baghdad's electricity.
9:06:18 AM
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