Just reading the May issue of Business 2.0, yes in print, but here it is online, Do This, Get Rich. One of the ideas B2.0 dreamed up was a startup company they called Spotcaster. Elevator pitch: “This start-up creates a search engine for podcasts and other digitally distributed recordings.”Target Market: “There are an estimated 50 million MP3 players, 80 million multimedia phones, and 700 million PCs that can download digital sound files.”Business Model: the company matches advertisers with podcasters and other creators of digital audio conent distributed over the Web to multimedia-ready devices like iPods and cell phones. It splits the ad revenue 30-70 with the content disseminators”They say you can start this business with less the $5 million! Go for it, Greg.

It is so refreshing to hear/see the excitement of one person praising another, especially when they are sharing knowledge. Couple of cool exampeles.

A wonderful note from the Lipstick Librarian, Linda Absher, about Blake Carver, who started the collaborative weblog, LISNews, in 1999 to share knowledge about librarian and information sceince news. Today is it one of THE places for information professionals to see what’s happening in their world. Congratulations, Blake, you deserve it!

Another great note, Library Staff Sharing About Conferences, from public librarian David King talking about sharing conference knowledge — something near and dear to my heart as I plan lots of conference events. David talks about the posting of about another public librarian and frequent speaker at Information Today conferences, Michael Stephens. Not only do Michael and his colleague share what they learn at conferences about trends, issues, others’ lessons learned, and new ideas but they whittle the list of good stuff down to 6 areas, then brainstorm “on each of the six points, create a document with action items from those points, and share those with library staff!”Thanks Dave, and way to go Michael. Maybe the next cybertour at Internet Libarian should be Sharing Conference Insights or After Action Conference Reviews!

Report from Juanita Richardson, Consultant & Licensing Managment, CEDROM-SNi, who was at the Information Highways 2005 inToronto last week produced by The eContent Institute for the Canadian information industry with the common themes of content and technology.

In his keynote on Day 1, Michael O’Neil, Managing Director, IDC Canada, spoke to the “push for productivity” and how content and technology are enabling this productivity growth. “The value of content is increasing dramatically – at the same time that storage costs are plunging, content will expand to fill all the available containers.” Why have content and content management strategies become so important? Access to content enables: speedy / accurate decisions; better management; shorter sales cycles. Therefore, content management strategies must: deliver info to decision makers; support regulatory compliance; support product / service delivery. However, as content becomes more valuable, it’s at greater risk of being used without the right – which brings governance and content management policies into the focus. Vendors take note: the IT / IM industry is growing because productivity is the #1 concern of senior executives and IT / IM enables productivity. The #1 area vendors should address: align solutions with the client’s business need / strategy. Of note: 10% of senior executives were disappointed on the ROI on IT. Food for thought.

Carolyn Burke of Integrity Incorporated spoke on data collection, management and governance, stressing that “security is a process – not a ‘thing’ in itself (eg. a firewall)”. Yet in an environment of pervasive computing, security

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