Irony of the web

You know all those popular web things like College Humour, Tila Tequila, Heavy, Perez Hilton, and so on?  Do you think when they talk about their achievements, they ever mention making it onto TV as a key point of success?

Actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians – they all want a piece of their own action on the web.  Google is paying the websites they’re on 50 cents for every thousand impressions giving a new media meaning to “starving artist”

As of 3:49pm today, the internet is the #1 news source in the world amongst humans and felines.  New online reports indicate that 98% of all blogs don’t source their claims or opinions

Journalists and writers are becoming a dying breed.  Even though they initiate pretty much every piece of info, their employers are finding it tougher to pay them.  Why?  The stuff they write gets redistributed and becomes fodder across so many other (no cost) websites and blogs there is now too much fragmentation for them to get their share to cover their costs.  But the blogs will be awesome

If online advertising is the best, name me 5 banner ads you’ve seen in the past week (University of Phoenix doesn’t count)

They say television is going to die and all those annoying commercials will go to the grave with it.  The antiquated box is being replaced by online video channels where pre-roll video ad units are critical to their success.  Websites won’t be able to fill their pre-roll inventory without TV commercials