A post on NetSquared’s blog alerted me to an article titled "The Revolution will be Televised." It’s about a group of young idealists (is there any other kind?) who want to establish a non-proprietary, non-advertising-driven platform that enables people to distribute videos without getting involved in all the commercial rackets that are coming. They’re with the Participatory Culture Foundation. The ...

Yesterday Microsoft evidently woke up to "Web 2.0." In SF Bill Gates announced: …an ambitious attempt to move its software and services online and start collecting more money from advertisers. Gates unveiled Microsoft’s two latest offerings, called Windows Live and Office Live, in which the Redmond, Wash., company’s biggest cash cows are retooled and made available to any device connected ...

CNET News has an article on how quickly the ability to deliver TV-like content over either the internet or TV is converging. Slowly but surely, content that’s broadcast over cable networks and through satellite providers is being distributed through the public Internet. In terms of the technology, all the elements are falling into place to deliver high-quality video from the ...

Technology Review has a very interesting article about new technology for detecting very small amounts of proteins that may be associated with cancers (biomarkers) in the blood. It holds the prospect of enabling quick, relatively non-invasive, cheap early detection devices. Biomedical researchers have been discovering more and more proteins that reveal the presence of a cancer before its symptoms appear ...