---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Daily"
date: 2006-01-21
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Daily

Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don’t have to! This is a 5 or 6 day a week feature and feel free to email me interesting links for inclusion: readwriteweb AT gmail.com.

![sundance](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533im_/http://static.flickr.com/19/88718195_48d5917d1b_m.jpg)– [PodTech coverage of the Sundance Film Festival](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.podtech.net/?p=288) (as usual, John Furrier is providing outstanding audio coverage of Web and Media events — this post is called ‘Think Mobile – Movies on the Go’)

– [Sundance + imeem photoblog](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://sundance.imeem.com/) (Photos, blog posts and some vids from this ‘behind the scenes’ Sundance blog)

– [Starbucks goes Hollywood](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/01/starbucks_goes_.html) (“It is, to be sure, a death of a thousand cuts: a brand extension here, an ill advised partnership there.”)

– [Dan Gillmor on Citizen Media](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?func=viewSubmission&sid=903&wid=10) (podcast by Berkman Center at Harvard, in which Dan discusses some interesting points raised about the future of big media, gatekeepers, and international citizen journalists. Thanks [Tim Lynch](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.clampants.com/) for the link)

– [The Blooker Prize 2006](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.lulublookerprize.com/) (“The Lulu Blooker Prize is the world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites.” Entries close 30 Jan.)

– [ Apple Chief Set for Disney Role](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/business/media/20pixar.html?ex=1295413200&en=618c8d7e55760725&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss) (“Steven P. Jobs could be considered the Walt Disney of his era”… Pixar being sold to Disney for $6.8 billion according to NYTimes sources)

– [ Who can challenge Apple’s iPod/iTunes?](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/want_to_marginalize_the_ipod_ask_steve_jobs_how/) (“…competing directly with the iTunes Music Store is too much to ask of even Microsoft”)

– [ RSS came from the publishing industry](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/01/20/rss-came-from-the-publishing-industry-2/) (Dave Winer: the tipping point for RSS was the adoption of the format by the New York Times in 2002)

– [nothing like a trashing to get the day started](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/003321.html) (Ning developer responds to yesterday’s [TechCrunch review](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/20/ning-rip/))

Flickr pic [by matchity](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204533/http://www.flickr.com/photos/matchity/88718195/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/musical_expedit.php))*