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Here are some of the things I was talking about today.

-I quoted from an Advertising Age article about online video. Here is the quotation:

Until about five minutes ago, remember, almost all video-entertainment content was produced and distributed by Hollywood. Period. That time is over. There was a time when advertisers could count on mass audiences for what Hollywood thought we should be watching on TV. That time is all but over. There was a time when broadband penetration was too slight and bandwidth costs too prohibitive for video to be watched online. That time is sooooo over. "The era of the creepy blue light leaking out of every living room window on the block is now officially at an end," says my pal and occasional colleague Steve Rosenbaum, founder of video-sharing startup Magnify.net and one of the inventors a decade ago of citizen video. "The simple, wonderful, delirious fact is that people like you and me can now make and share content."

Delirious or not, it's a fact that Buzzmachine.com's Jeff Jarvis believes has changed the meaning of TV. "Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable," he says, "the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear."

-The site for monitoring web traffic is Alexa. That's where I got the current top twenty list.

-The music site I mentioned is Rhapsody.

-The book I discussed is The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. Much, more more about it can be found on Anderson's blog. Anderson is the editor of Wired Magazine.

-Finally, the missed connections page for Milwaukee on Craigslist. Enjoy.