Chex Mix: Innovation; Obits; Wikimaps; customer service; Tourists generate content; computer culture; AOL REALLY screws up

• What’s stopping innovation in today’s news media
  Good list and comments.
• Online obits: a new threat to newspapers? – Editors Weblog
  Hm.
• Wikimapia – Let’s describe the whole Earth!
  Really, really cool. Google maps + Flickr-like image tagging.
• Scobleizer – Ray Ozzie “optimized” (I just want a new office chair)
  Scoble rants about corporate web loosing their focus on customer service:”It’s all bunk. If there is no audience, there is no advertising. I’m not an “eyeball” to be tracked, or optimized.”
• Florida Tourism Web Site Incorporates User Generated Content – by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett
  Everybody’s drinkin’ the Kool-Aid!
• Ypulse: Media for the Next Generation
  Quoth YPulse:
  “Teens are underwhelmed and are not as “totally wired” as we all think because they still watch local news (but they also still love their gadgets, spend more time online and use WOM via text about movies they like).
• 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
  A Neil Postman-esque commentary pontificates on computer culture’s impact on society.Now, I was about to say that this is a bad thing because peacefully dealing with incompatible people is important to living in a society. But that’s not true. No, pea
• AOL Hits Rock Bottom AND Pisses Off Google – PaulStamatiou.com
  Man this is a mess. on. so. many. levels.
• Valleywag: Find the scariest AOL user search record
  Quote “Days after AOL mistakenly (they say) released search records for half a million customers, bloggers are poring over the scariest-sounding users. (Because decrying corporate privacy invasion is fun, but exploiting that invaded privacy is more fun.”