You are no doubt somewhat bemused by the hype over video search, the latest craze animating the titans of the new economy. Yahoo and Google’s offer to host your home videos seems both considerate and vaguely sinister. We all know, after all, the kinds of video most people are looking for when they jump on a search engine. But rest assured, home movies are a red herring. As more and more people illegally digitise and download broadcast television and movie content, the real issue for media companies will be finding an effective means to simultaneously secure and open up their material for public access.

Stuffy members of the radio industry might be forgiven for thinking that the fuss over 'podcasting' is nothing more than a new kind of fly fishing technique. Geeks blogging on Slashdot is one thing - but when Business Week, the bible of conservative CEO aspirants calls it a "New Radio Revolution", the broadcast luddites had better take notice.

One of the most difficult issues for newspaper publishers to resolve is figuring out the optimal relationship between print and web content. A recent column in Wired Magazine challenges the oft triumphed approach taken by the Wall Street Journal to charge readers for access to their online content archive.

In the good old days, it could take up to nine months for a blockbuster Hollywood movie release to finally screen in markets outside of the US. Once the Studios realised that cheap handycam dubs of their multi-million dollar films were being sold in Asian noodle markets hours after their release, they realised they had to simultaneously open in multiple markets.

When word trickled out that the revived new economy bad boy Napster had wrapped up a $52 million equity raising - it seemed pretty clear they were raising a war chest to take the fight to Apple's iTunes.