Piracy=success; Gliese581d may be habitable after all; ‘pain ray’ not so humane after all; audio billboards bombard your cranium; web-dev malarkey …

• 1 – TV industry using piracy as a measure of success

  “What’s missing is the definitive business model for online that has existed for decades for TV. My prediction is that one single model won’t emerge and that we’ll monetize our content in as many different ways as there are to distribute it.”

  (tags: piracy penetration market BitTorrentpiracy metrics marketing TV)

• 2 – Gliese 581d: A Habitable World After All?

  Gliese 581 is back in the news with a flourish. Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing two independent studies of the system asserting that at least one of the inner planets is indeed located within the habitable zone of that star.

  (tags: planet world habitable science astrobiology astronomy exoplanet Gliese581)

• 3 – Building an Online Empire: 16 Types of Websites You Can Create for Profit

  “When generating income online, view the web as virtual real estate: like physical buildings, websites are profitable entities that can be developed or bought.”

  (tags: concepts income profit entrepreneur strategy business website web)

• 4 – Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping

  Could work just as well for journo articles and fiction, I reckon.

  (tags: inspiration mapping mind generation ideas article fiction story post blogging)

• 5 – Google free to bid for UK broadcast spectrum, says Ofcom

  “… there is nothing to stop Google bidding for UK broadcast spectrum freed up by the switch-off of the analogue TV signal, raising the prospect that the US web search giant could move into mobile telecoms and online services.”

  (tags: Google viability bid Ofcom spectrum frequency communications UK)

• 6 – Iconize Textlinks with CSS – pooliestudios

  “Links are fun, but sometimes we don’t know where they take us. With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by its icon.” Nice work.

  (tags: technique icons downloads link xhtml design webdev CSS)

• 7 – WriteMaps Site Map Application: Create, edit, and share your sitemaps online.

  “WriteMaps is a free web-based tool that allows you to create, edit, and share sitemaps online. As a WriteMaps user, you and your team will be able to build and access your sitemaps from anywhere …” Hmm. Handy.

  (tags: tool planning map hierarchy design collaboration architecture site application webdev web2.0)

• 8 – How Do You Put Ideas Into Action?

  “But how exactly do ideas become reality? We all know for a fact that to make ideas happen it takes a lot more than just the idea itself.” Word.

  (tags: motivation freelance action goals development planning business)

• 9 – US military in denial over ‘pain ray’

  “Proponents argue that it is better to risk causing a few minor burns than to use live ammunition, often the only alternative. Opponents are worried that if Active Denial is deployed, it could be the start of a new form of high-tech oppression.”

  (tags: technology microwave control crowd weapon hardware military US PainRay)

• 10 – Has voice recognition finally come of age?

  “It has been said that pretty soon we will be able to store a record of our lives in something the size of a sugar cube. If nothing else, this will give people who are living longer and longer a chance to spend the last part of their lives reliving the ea

  (tags: lifelogging technology software recognition voice computing)

• 11 – Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad

  “The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an “audio spotlight” from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium.” B*astards. Another reason to stay indoors.

  (tags: technology pervasive futurism marketing billboard audio ambient advertising)