The blogosphere is always generating - and referencing - a ton of great data. This time, in a recent post on the blogosphere by Pranam Kolari on eBiquity, he suggests that the use of “I” is experiencing a downward trend and that this correlates with the number of english language posts having plateaued. Though he is not explicit, I am guessing that Mr. Kolari assumes bloggers use the word “I” in their posts because they are often referencing their opinions and therefore “I” is a good gauge.

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There has been a lot of buzz surrounding podcasting over the past couple of years since Dave Winer and Adam Curry - and his podcasting company, Podshow - pushed forward the notion of time-shifted broadcasts of anything from music to talk delivered via RSS feeds containing links to digital file downloads.

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The paradox continues in the world-formerly-known-as-Print where the most popular print publications have become some of the most popular web destinations. Take a look at the comScore 250, the de facto standard in ‘top websites by traffic’ lists, and you’ll see names which include The New York Times, The Washington Post and Dow Jones & Company.

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Just when you the thought the sharing and communication available to you on sites like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace could go no further, a recent trend has gained momentum according to today’s BusinessWeek article from Olga Kharif.

To a degree, the openness of social networking platforms has been around for a while. Witness the many MySpace photo sites that allow users to copy and past javascript code to achieve prime backgrounds or slide shows, for example.

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In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal online edition, writers Jamin Warren and John Jurgensen go into detail on the popularity and inner-workings of social bookmarking or news sites.

Without question, sites like Kevin Rose’s Digg, Netscape, Reddit, Del.icio.us and others are having an impact with their ability to drive traffic and create superstars out of its more ardent users such as Adam Fuhrer, a 12 year-old Canadian who posts on Reddit - much to Mike Arrington’s chagrin.

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A cool, new application has the web chatting about Yahoo! - they’ve broken new ground. Check out Pipes.

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In today’s unique manifesto from Steve Jobs entitled, “Thoughts on Music,” Mr. Jobs essentially says that it’s time to get rid of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) system currently required by four of the largest record companies: Sony BMG, Bertelsman, EMI and Vivendi.

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They’re back!

It appears as of 3 p.m. PT yesterday that the last layer of form and functionality has been revealed in Yahoo!’s Panama… the new and improved online ad network that concerns some search marketers… but, by and large, is welcomed with open arms. Another player in the contextual (via its Yahoo! Publisher Network) and search engine marketing arena - in addition to Google - is exactly what the marketplace is yearning for and Yahoo! will likely have a significant impact.

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Mark Cuban, the multi-millionaire who sold broadcast.com for hundreds of millions of dollars to Yahoo in the go-go days of the Internet, is taking on web media behemoth, Google, for being less than truthful in regards to its ongoing battle with copyright owners such as Viacom. Viacom, who refuses to make a deal with YouTube/Google over its videos on the popular video service, earns Cuban’s sympathies:

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