Googlewhack milestone: Recently, the 500,000th “whack” was recorded on Googlewhack. (Flashback: Googlewhacking inspired a really funny one-man play.)
(via: Gary Price)

A list: Things you can do with RSS. It’s a wiki entry, so you can add more.

Not much: What do media buyers think of sales reps?

(via: David Shaw)

From Darwin Magazine: 7 Tips for Getting of Control of E-mail.

Quote:

If any subject or issue involves more than two e-mails, one party should call the other to resolve the issue by phone.

No junk e-mail, no jokes.

Only send relevant information, which is defined as just what the person needs to know.

Limit CCs (which might be more appropriately named CYA).

Don’t ping-pong with e-mail for a conversation; use the phone.

Deal with it and delete it.

Don’t read every e-mail as it comes in; handle them in batches.

(via: cutting through)

More freaky statistics: More new businesses survive than conventional wisdom suggests. (PDF of Bureau of Labor Statistics research summary.)

(via: Jeff Cornwall)

Jurnomath: There are a lot of magazines being launched except there’s some question about the exact number — of course, that doesn’t stop a reporter from making comparisons to other ambiguous numbers.

What William Gibson said: “Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do. All of us. Though not all of us know it – yet.”

Impatient punditry: At Clickz, Kevin Newcomb reports it may be a while before advertising dollars begin pouring into podcasters’ pockets.

Quote:

Apple’s integration of podcasting into its iTunes software has propelled the grassroots movement into the mainstream, but marketers say there are challenges to overcome before ad dollars begin pouring into podcasters’ pockets.

So, let’s see. The mainstreaming of the “notion” of podcasting is less than a year old (That date is September 29, 2004). Apple’s integration of it into iTunes is 8-days old. At this pace, those dollars should be pouring in around Labor Day.

(via: PaidContent.org)