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We just finished day one of Ad Week. We’re working with Google / Youtube and Wharton Business School to produce a bunch of thought leader video interviews as well as video of various panel discussions from the four day event.

I spent the morning trying to get rid of an annoying spyware / malware / piece of sh*t program on Ayesha’s PC laptop called Total Security. I don’t know the proper name for this type of program since I don’t have to worry about malicious, marauding applications on my Mac

Trying to decide on an Open Source Platform that provides robust blogging and social networking capabilities? So were we.

Listening to Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly makes me sick to my stomach. Listening to Keith Olberman, while not as bad (he doesn’t yell and scream and shout down people with opposing views), still makes me shake my head. Realizing that many Americans take talk show hosts extreme right and left rants as gospel makes me sad and frustrated.

The exterminator called me into the basement today. Evidently, while they take care of mice and bugs, they don’t handle snakes. And there was one in the basement.

I’m sitting here watching CNN, and it’s the time of day when the news stories are less BBC and more People Magazine, if you know what I mean.

It seems that churches are getting wittier with their street-side marketing. Every church sign I drive by makes me chuckle. They have replaced the dry messages of years ago with contemporary quips to draw people in.

I have no idea what killed this deer in our yard. Whatever killed it had to be big enough to rip its leg and hip right off the body. I do know the deer is about 100 pounds and much faster than I am. Whatever took it down can certainly outrun me, despite the blazing fast times I recorded in gym class 100 yard dashes back in the day.

I’ve been saying for a while that 2009 will be the breakout year for live streaming video in the same way that 2005 was the year on-demand video came into its own. Here’s my interview with John Ham, CEO and co-founder of uStream.

As information industries struggle, they grasp at anything to protect their turf. The result is that we all suffer.