"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last." Marcel Proust

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me - I'm afraid of widths." Steven Wright

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." Oscar Wilde

Today's image: Ode To The Duck by Cornerstone. Great shot. Thank you for sharing.

Scarborough Research: Understanding the Digital Savvy Consumer. Survey says 6% of the US population (projected to 13.8 mil adults) are "leading edge" digital consumers, the early adopters. 6 of the top 10 Digital Savvy cities are in the west. Top ten DMAs: Austin, Las Vegas, Sacramento, San Diego, Washington DC, Seattle, Phoenix, Chicago, New York, San Francisco. They are more likely to be male and 77% are under the age of 44 (more than half are under 34, the median age). More likely to be Asian or US born Hispanic. Getting news and info online 38% read blogs vs 8% of the less than savvy population. 22% visit radio station sites, 18% visiting TV station sites. They are heavy downloaders of music and video. 33% listen to radio online vs the general population of 9% that do so. Free PDF download of exec summary here.

From BBC: The Sound Index. Interesting. A tracking of comments, posts, plays and views. #1 track, Mercy by Duffy. #1 artist Coldplay. Involved in the project bebo, last.fm, YouTube, MySpace, Google, iTunes. Find it here.

Thought leaders - Country radio: CRB offers Executive Memo where radio and music industry folks can share their thoughts. A good read here. My thanks to Ed Salamon, the best evangelist there is in Country.

Required reading: Publius Project, an initiative by the Berkman Center at Harvard, presents "essays and conversations about constitutional moments on the Net." It's all good, you should really check it out. Highly recommended. Here's the jump.

Bonus: Testing - 72 questions reveal who you are. The test scored me type ENFJ. Friends are telling me that's spot-on. The stats suggest 3% of the population are type ENFJ, 1.5% of males, 4.5% of females. My sense is we're a small but vocal tribe. Bonus 2: TuneGlue

Class act: Keeve Berman has passed. A newsperson's newsperson, Keeve was a gifted radio anchor, a reporter advantaged with keen instincts and a leader. As a college kid living in the city I cold called radio stations looking for a job. Keeve took my call. Telling him I had no audition tape to send, he said "that's ok" and invited me in for an audition. Arrived at the storied 1440 Broadway studios of RKO Radio's WOR and WXLO on the appointed day. Keeve could not have been more kind, a perfect gentleman, a total professional. He handed me some wire copy and walked me to the studio. Clearly, I was not ready for primetime but he gave me some good advice. "Get some experience and come back again" he said. Not many news managers take cold calls from kids looking to break into the biz but then again there have never been many news managers like Keeve Berman. Keeve made an impression on me, he confirmed my thinking that RKO Radio was the outfit I wanted to work for someday. Footnote: I was later recruited to join RKO Radio in Chicago and always enjoyed dropping by 1440 when ever in the city. The lesson here is you just never know who's calling - take the call. An important part of every manager's job is to discover talent before you need them. Take charge of creating a positive first impression about your company when strangers come calling. Long after they've forgotten what you said they'll still remember how you made them feel.

Closed circuit to CBS News: Public Eye has been silent since last December. Might want to redirect that landing page url, it's still blogrolled at a bunch of good journo sites.

Nielsen: Caroline McCarthy blogs the latest Nielsen metrics via the social @ CNET News here. The following table courtesy of her post. Kudos, Caroline and thanks for sharing. Click on table to enlarge. [Related buzz: LinkedIn is killing out there, pacing to do $100 mil in rev this year, some now saying it could be worth $1 billion]

Cartoon:

Hugh MacLeod

Thanks Hugh!






"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift

Lawrence Lessig delivers the mail, his New York Times Op-Ed, Make Way for Copyright Chaos...

"The Internet will now face years of uncertainty before this fundamental question about the meaning of a decade-old legislative deal gets resolved.

No doubt the justices are clever, maybe even more clever than Congress. But however clever, it’s hard to believe that their input is worth the millions in economic value that will be wasted long before they announce their decision."

Bravo Larry! Well said. Read the entire writing here. If you have not yet written to your senators and representative please do so. You may get more information and sign an online petition by clicking on the Save The Streams banner found at the upper left of this page. Since congress is hearing happy, we might as well get in line. We need congressional action to get this fixed. Kurt Hanson has written an excellent post - Copyright law and the CRB: What went wrong? here. Bravo Kurt and Paul!

Talk is cheap, whiskey cost money: Would you pay $50 per year for "free music"? Peter Jenner via Wired here. Doc's Internet Radio on Death Row here.

One call does it all: GrandCentral, now in beta, offers up some cool telephone services. You sign up, get your universal GC phone number and when folks call you it rings all of your phones at once. You may also screen your calls. Lots more on the services here. (Thanks to Tim and O'Reilly Radar for the tip)

Dan Rather, Bruce Sterling, Amanda, Phillip Torrone, Kathy Sierra, Daniel Raffel and more: The SXSW Podcasts here.

Bonus: Idol Critic Liza Persky rocks! Congrats and cheers to Liza, Mary, Peter and Jeff. The obvious remains the most difficult to see.

Bonus 2: PrezVid Peter Hauck and Jeff Jarvis cover the 08 one day sale via YouTube - smart, very smart. Bravo! ( ibid, the obvious)