I’d like to think that with decades of service as a politician, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) has a thick hide, if not a sense of humor. He needs it. As Art Brodsky at Public Knowledge points out this morning, the Senator’s “series of tubes” rant at the Commerce Committee mark-up just keeps providing copy for journalists and humorists. (Art also points out that Public Knowledge deserves the credit for first posting the audio of Stevens’ “tubes” talk.)
After two weeks of blogosphere mockery of the good Senator, the mainstream press is on the case. The New York Times’ Ken Belson has this piece on the after-life of Stevens’ statements and the LA Times had this squib over the weekend. Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post had this column on the topic yesterday.
More importantly, however, dozens of Google searchers have landed at IP Democracy over the past few days using some form of “Ted Stevens” “tubes” “Daily Show” “The Internet is a Series of Tubes,” etc. For their ease of use, here are our items about the humorous riffs that have been produced based on Stevens’ truck-tubes-Internets speech.
—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Stevens
—Andrew Raff’s “The Internet is a Series of Tubes” Song
—Audio mash-up of Stevens and Ask a Ninja
And here’s a new one:
—Techno-Remix “Series of Tubes.”
Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at 10:51 AM | Print | Comments (0)
With YouTube now delivering 100 million videos per day, is it any wonder that venture capitalists are eager to stake their claims in the Internet/IP video world?
Over at IP Media Monitor today (free registration), we take a look at the amount of venture money that has flowed into IP video start-ups over the past year and find that over $600 million has been invested in the YouTubes and Sling Medias and MobiTVs of the world since around this time last year. Our list (see table below) doesn’t even include investments for web sites or technology companies that focus a lot — but not primarily — on IP video efforts.
It’s a challenge these days to decide what’s a video-related investment or not — RSS pioneer Feedster recently raised an unspecified amount of money, but said that a lot of its new work would focus on video feeds. That made it in.
If anybody sees a company or a funding round that should be on this list, give a shout.
Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at 9:44 AM | Print | Comments (0)
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