Writing this just now got me thinking how “Web 2.0″ or “The New Web” or whatever you wish to call it can really help grassroots organizations such as GYPA. The availability of these free social services, and the communities that comprise them, virtually hand over an audience to an organization looking to boost membership. Perhaps this is nothing new and I’m stating the obvious, but it still is amazing for a developer such as myself who remembers days of yore and having to submit your site to Yahoo! and wait patiently for your site to be added to their index.

Long gone are those days. You can build an audience simply by setting up accounts on sites like Flickr, upcoming.org, and even, God forbid, MySpace.

So yeah, no amazing revelations here, but it is an exciting time to be a web designer/developer/technophile.

NBC executives were naturally elated to learn that “The Office” has often been listed as the top video downloaded on iTunes. So much so, in fact, that they bestowed it the highest honor in network television: the coveted Thursday night slot.

This is one thing I will never understand about network television. Both “The Office” and “My Name Is Earl” more or less had the run of things on their former home on Tuesday evenings. So what do the networks do with two successful shows? Put them up against every other network’s hottest shows on Thursday night. It’s almost as if television networks don’t like broadcasting television programs.

The article also expounds on how Tivo and other PVRs have made timeslots irrelevant. I couldn’t agree more. I hate to think of how much money I throw away on cable for channels I don’t watch, only to end up downloading the shows I missed because I can’t remember when they come on. The future of entertainment is in direct download. The sooner Big Entertainment realizes this, the better off we’ll all be.