And people wonder why social networking works so well

Microsoft studied their instant messenger users and learned that the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is nearly true. It's 6.6. Can you say LinkedIn? That's basically the premise for that site: Who do your friends know that could get you a job or some business?

Opec 2.0

An interesting column about how the controllers of access to bandwidth could be likened to OPEC's control of oil. Comcast has already been testing tiered bandwidth plans in Canada and Time Warner is testing it on new customers in the southern states.

Who really should control access to the Internet, which is rapidly becoming the primary source of communication for all types of media?

So, how many journos got cut for this?

Despite Gannet cutting and cutting in newspaper and broadcast newsrooms they spend $10 million on an online streaming startup. At least they're doing something more than just cutting and cutting.