Web dogma says technology has made copyright law obsolete. Content producers are supposed to make a living by selling advertising, finding a rich donor or collecting tips.

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Labor Day has passed. It’s a good moment to announce a new project. Geoweb Report (and Summit + Expo) will cover the emerging geoweb industry.

Geoweb in my definition is where the digital and physical worlds meet, the convergence of location based services, place-based media and advertising, RFID, GIS, etc.

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Web2NewYork.com had a structural streamlining and upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress. If you see anything weird, let me know.

Bogus ‘user generated company’ Slikstr was a big hit again last night at the always excellent Video 2.0 meetup.

Some even believed the company was real. ‘We’ve created a lot of confusion,’ Neovids-founder Matt Feldman said.

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Both Facebook and MySpace lost millions of users between August and September, according to recent numbers from Nielsen Online and ComScore.

Facebook was supposed to become the Google of social networking. It’s not going to happen. Facebook is over the hill and has reached the social networking implosion point.

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Excellent new trend: antisocial networking. Enemybook and Snubster allow you to ‘manage your enemies’, ‘disconnect your so-called friends’ and create ‘Dead To Me’ lists. Heh heh.

I’m not a good person…

Mediapost is turning itself into a web community, with the help of the same company Mashable used. For an established trade publisher it’s a daring move, but it makes sense. Putting community before content is the future of publishing.

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