It’s rare for a great new web service to come along that really makes you say “wow”, but Kosmix.com made me do just that. Recently, Robert Scoble tweeted about a video interview he did with the Kosmix creators. Give the video a watch, it explains the ins and outs of Kosmix and gives some great examples of how it can be used. Read more

So I was reading a blog by Adam, a fellow Internet web 2.0 person that “gets it” who raises the point that people, when using the Internet, have a very short attention span.

This is the problem with blogging and any type of news on the Internet in general.

I find myself and many colleagues much the same.

We all open up programs such as NetNewsWire (an RSS agregator) and start perusing through the headings of articles, instead of the actual content.

The reason behind all of this is most likely due to the fact that we are presented with a source of information that never ends; The Internet.

Adam also suggests that it is because of the medium we receive the information in.

I also agree with Adam on this point as well.

For example, popular shows on Revision3′s network engage a large audience, as they include video and audio of which audiences find much easier and essentially ‘less work’ to consume.

So can we ‘port’ old media into a new medium?

Video, I think we can, audio, as a podcast format yes, but online radio? I’m not too sure about.

I always come back to the whole driving to work, listening to the radio thing.

People like the whole ‘live’ thing, ‘breakfast radio’, with traffic news e.t.c, e.t.c.

So will we see cars with Internet radio built in soon? and if so will it be tuned in to ‘local IP’s'?

I just think the business models associated with this ‘new’ medium will need to change.

- Ben