killing

 From the Billboard to The Wall Street Journal, the debate rages on. Has iTunes killed the album? Would Kid Rock have sold more or less if he'd gone on iTunes. (LESS) Was Atlantic smart to pull the Estelle single off iTunes just as it was climbing the chart?

Popular people with long lists of followers on Twitter may be partly responsible for the micro-blogging site's performance woes at times.

The cable industry's in trouble, and the FCC isn’t all that interested in helping it. Six cable networks are suing the Federal agency in an attempt to block "dual must-carry" requirements set to take effect in 2009. The nuances of the issue highlight that cable just isn't keeping up with the competition in terms of capacity, and it appears the FCC is very content to help telephone and satellite companies steamroll an entire industry.

Journalism—real, in-depth, investigative, hard-hitting journalism—is expensive. The first thing the major news broadcasters did after being deregulated, was drop their documentary units. This type of journalism is also known as "long-form" journalism, and the Internet is helping to kill it.

Radiohead kicked open the door, Trent Reznor is in the foyer admiring the chandelier, and bands like Oasis, Jamiroquai, and The Charlatans are rolling up the street looking for the party.

Some buzz centered on Robert Scoble's contention that properties like Facebook and human-edited search engine Mahalo add up to a Google-free future misses out on an important factor.

Google has been quietly inviting some websites to participate in a Display Advertising Network, which will place some very profitable CPM ads from Fortune 1000 companies on a publisher's site.

An interesting NYT article on how Google (and others) are forcing newspapers to change their approach to writing news headlines.