Reno Social Media Think Tank

What we're trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn't just expensive and inefficient; it's laughably so.

I’ve been devoting much of my time of late to exploring Web 2.0 possibilities in the last few weeks… services, sites, widgets and ways to integrate them. Now that we all have profiles all over the place (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, YouTube and countless others) keeping them all relevant can be pretty time consuming. Fortunately developers appear to be aware of this and are doing something about it. Here’s a cute little example of my most recent Web 2.0 chain reaction (websites updating other websites and profiles automatically)

This is a pretty neat development, and can be handy both socially and professionally.

In this case, my goal was to proliferate my online video, and share the awareness of it as broadly as possible.

Strategy Analytics said fourth-quarter handset sales were off 10.5 percent compared to the same period a year ago -- dropping from to 329 million to 295 million.

But it's easy to forget that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and RIM (NASDAQ: RIMM) fans represent only a sliver of worldwide mobile phone users -- and they can't offset a larger decline.

"We have been seeing a consolidation by users down to one device rather than multi-devices for e-mail and voice in the enterprise segment," Susan Welsh de Grimaldo, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, told InternetNews.com

is such an unusual magnet for consumer attention and recall that it is worth every penny.

Consumers want to see the ads; they're akin to entertainment.

In my six years of monitoring game spots, there's been no question that brands that "prime the pump" around their Super Bowl spots get far bigger buzz dividends than brands that don't.

This will create a huge influx of unfiltered material, and create a significant demand for filters and editors who can find/sort/select and recommend contextual quality content within verticals.

the core resource required to building a high-quality curated experience is not capital, but knowledge.

Apple has created a safe, trusted micro-payment economy around iTunes and the fact that only software that is tested gets into their iTunes systems is evidence that the Curation Economy is at play here too.

Content isn't king: culture is. The reason we go to the movies is to have something to talk about. If I sent you to a desert island and told you to choose between your records and your friends, you'd be a sociopath if you chose the music.

Because if copying on the Internet were ended tomorrow, it would be the end of culture on the Internet too.

If culture loses the copyright wars, the reason for copyright dies with it.