The business model only really works for the largest content agreggators. Selling advertising in other people’s content is what’s making Google a rich, fat, powerful monopoly.

New legislation, about to be passed by Congress in the shadow of the bailout mess, will further strenghten Google’s hand against independent photographers, artists, designers.

The Orphan Works Act of 2008 weakens copyright protection for works whose owners cannot be located. Basically, if you see something and the owner isn’t around, it’s yours!

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists says the new law ‘threatens the livelihoods of everyone who relies on copyright for a living’.

Dale Gladstone of the The New York Digital Art Meetup Group sent out a mailing urging members to ‘tell the House to vote NO’.

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.

If you’d like to get involved, don’t hesitate to contact me here.

Posting frequency at Web2NewYork will pick up again in the coming weeks, during the Web 2.0 Expo and moving closer to our regular September 23rd networking party at Gallery Bar.