Theres just one problem with the chart below: If correct, cable companies are likely losing millions of subscribers that are instead getting their TV fix from online sources, such as Hulu . The problem? Online TV watching doesnt generate anywhere near the revenue of cable programming. If we all switch to watching TV via Hula et al , what happens to the quality of the programming? If we continue down this path,

Wikipedia is adding another layer of trust to its user generated content system called WikiTrust. This article in Wired Magazine does a good job of covering the positives and the negatives of Wikis in general as it related to content generation, search engine optimization and Wikipedia specifically. On the one hand, the WikiTrust system is pretty straightforward. New editors have a low level of trust and over time as their edits survive their level of trust increases.

The full launch of YouTube's new channels is getting to be long overdue , but the date is still unknown at this point. As YouTube keeps saying however, they're getting closer. Meanwhile, the channels have been available to those who have tried hard enough to gain access to them, and YouTube continues to make improvements to them. One such improvement just made, is the ability to reorder your uploads, favorites, and lists of playlists.

At the beginning of the month, I released a free report called Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing . People seemed to really appreciate it, especially since: No email address is required You can read via PDF or the web There are no affiliate links There's no pitch (other than subscribe to Copyblogger ) This led to a lot of speculation . Why did I do it this way? What was the strategy behind this approach? Has Brian finally lost it?

Wikipedia is adding another layer of trust to its user generated content system called WikiTrust. This article in Wired Magazine does a good job of covering the positives and the negatives of Wikis in general and Wikipedia specifically. On the one hand, the WikiTrust system is pretty straightforward. New editors have a low level of trust and over time as their edits survive their level of trust increases. That's good. It's the way it should be. On the other hand,

Mobile consumption of Wi-Fi is on the rise as consumers become increasingly mobile, according to a new report by JiWire. Overall, the number of mobile devices accessing Wi-Fi hotspots grew by 79 percent in the first half of this year. While the iPhone and iPod Touch remain the most popular Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, collectively representing 97.8 percent of all mobile device connections, the Palm Pre launched as the fifth most popular mobile device in June 2009,

Oddcast has released an interesting new audio status-updating tool for publishing your voice to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. You may recognize the company from its SitePal service, which provides animated characters for websites. The new tool called AudioPal lets users create 60-second personal voice messages that can be posted to their personal web pages, blogs, and social networks. "Millions of people log on to social networking sites,

Last week, it was revealed that Wikipedia would be making some changes to its rules for editing. It was reported that the site was testing pages that would require people editing entries to have their changes approved by "experienced" editors before the changes would be made. Now it appears that some other specific editorial changes are in store for the widely used encyclopedia site. The people behind Wikipedia reportedly intend to implement a color coded system of trust,

There's a lot of debate around whether social media marketing can be measured. There's also a cauldron of bubbling issues around exactly what companies should measure when it comes to social media marketing. ...

Google not too long ago added another sort of broad match called "session-based" . This is the AdWords side of personalized search results. What happens is: searchers continue to see ads based on earlier search queries. Problem: Irrelevant Searches Within the Same Session Some AdWords advertisers report fairly irrelevant ads showing up after a searcher has changed the focused of their searches. You can see what those queries are via the Search Query Report,