links for 2007-01-22

by Brian Reich | 22 Jan 2007, 2:00am

• Is it really “buzz” we hear — or just static?
  In an age of accelerated connection, the buzz around every art form has intensified, but nowhere as much as in music.
• Diabetics: one sweet market
  There is a growing number of diabetics — including celebrity endorsers, magazine publishers and an investment advisor — who are finding business opportunities in marketing to others with the chronic disease.
• On the Electronic Campaign Trail
  Not long ago, an anonymous video on the Internet would have elicited little more than amusement from the candidate under attack. But the 2006 midterm campaign changed the rules
• Video games packed with political messages
  Just as the documentary developed as a potent force within the film industry, designers who develop video games now focus and comment on the world’s social and political ills.
• The Doctor’s Office Gets Crowded on the Web
  While every service imaginable seems to have found a way to thrive on the Web, health has always lagged. But things are heating up, as an Internet billionaire is about to launch a site of his own and an online-health pioneer is changing its services to me
• Site focuses on Indians overseas
  Bollywood studio has launched a video-on-demand website for Hindi films and other programs in the first attempt by the Indian film industry to use the Internet to tap the wealthy Indian diaspora.

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