Yesterday, he wrapped up the YouTube 2006 Video Awards .

He’s 24, a journalism grad, lives in San Francisco, and has no interest in Newspapers (not that there is anything wrong with them).

If you want a good take on the important stuff going on in the internet world – good and bad – check in daily. He has a sense of what’s important and summing it up quickly with the appropriate pics and vids.

He will make you laugh too with his easy style.

He also blogs at his popular Rad Report .

Unfortuneately, Dominic has had enough of the aggravation and moved on. Eddie Daroza , someone I also met through blogging has pitched in with me and some friends like Owen Bossola to add a little spice to your blogging day. Eddie has style, so give him a chance.

He’s like The Fly , but with cool pictures and sex appeal :) (and no stocks).

Welcome back TBT .

Back in the day, when I was a subscriber to The Street, I used to look forward to reading Todd’s posts. Todd was Cramer, Berkowitz’s head trader and he knew what he was talking about. He has kept doing that at Minyanville. I am looking forward to meeting him. He has to have some great Cramer stories.

I will be mixing it up with Lindsay, Adam and Jeff and try and force my self into a few episodes.

Check out today’s Wallstrip episode with Dave Kansas of the Wall Street Journal. He seems like a cool guy for sure.

Also, if you have not been reading The Blogging Times, you are missing out on some great stuff from Beth Gottfried. She just has it going on. Snnnnaaaarky.

I must admit I have absolutely no interest in video games. But, my son loves his PSP. He is not the only kid (or adult). He does not give his Playstation 2 the time of day, but I am sure that day will come. The PSP is the perfect product for an 8 year old boy. Despite the KID love, the stock remains a DOG! Why?

Sony the company still lacks a catalyst. It’s too big, too slow, too clunky. Some great products, but no catalyst. The right wing hates them to boot.

I want to look at Apple, Sony and Oakley to compare a great product being turned into a stock catalyst.

First Apple. People continue to look at Apple and say – it’s the iPod that remade this company – it won’t continue. No doubt iPod sales will not grow continuously, but the catalyst was it’s delivery and the Apple Store. That part of Apple will continue unabated for some time.

Sony could open 1,000 stores and it would not dent the bottom line. In fact, it woulld serve to piss off their main sources of retail distribution.

Oakley has a wicked product in their RAZR sunglasses and the means to deliver it (mall stores), but they can’t or won’t do it well. They prefer to lock them up behind glass doors while you wait 10 minutes for a salesperson to unlock the cabinet and hand you a pair that has no music.

WTF! Is there not one Oakley executive that has been in an Apple store? If they fix it, their stock could run.

When Sony decides to unlock some of it’s growth components and spin them off, you may have some growth tickets. But Sony the stock… come on. If you can’t find something better in this market, you are not Wallstrip Worthy :) !

Disclosure – No positions in Sony or Oakley. Long Apple.

The house cleaning that has taken place the last few days is sweet. They have a little bit left to do. Shit, Cramer could do it.

The chart telegraphed the news. You will notice that this AWFUL management’s fate was sealed back in July as the tech market exploded and Time Warner continued to suffer. The big money knew these changes were coming.

I will concede that NO ONE can save AOL.

But the web weaklings assembled to do the heavy lifting did not help AOL’s situation. They just stole more money from common shareholders in opportunity cost.

It is supremely fitting that Jason Calacanis resigned (he was such a goner anyway) today. He has made some personal money but is the kiss of death.

This stock is going higher. I am buying a little tomorrow. I think a lot of good changes are in store. They could (likely will) start by closing all the crap that Jason made like Netscape (Digg clone) and Blogging Stocks (a bad train wreck). Neither is worth linking to. They will be dead links soon.

AOL is done. Get rid of it for SOMETHING. Just keep the traffic by offering some worthwhile content.

Time Warner is cool. Has content. Has capital to buy web content, web talent.

That is a plan. Hope someone is listening.

Time Warner could be great.

Alone.

I am obviously partial to all his work, but I love it.

We have Chartreuse back writing and a great set of original viedos to check out every day.

Enjoy.

Here is what I am sure is happening (I swear I have not read a post over in VC and nerdville):

Oh this is a bubble!

They are CRAZY!

Here is my take:

Genius. Period.

Great timing – while other VC’s fold, they get aggressive. Tell me Bank of America lending 110 percent against swampland in Florida and Desert land in nowhereville is any worse than this!

The beginning – not the end – of a trend. Lot’s of small investments focused on smaller deals.

The real issue is that the closeset thing we have to a bubble these days is in large (real iffy) private equity deals. Sure that can go on forever, but that is an old trend. Also one that I have no access to.

Here is the details from Charles River’s website. I am going to submit ours for The Blogging Times tomorrow. Better than borrowing from a friend :) .

I can’t wait to see how this plays out.

The first episode has Nicholas Baum, product manager at Google reader, a product getting rave reviews.

Silicon Valley may be the Mecca of Venture Capital, but New York is the Mecca of interviews and obviously not a bad place to catch Google people and start-ups.

Our friend Loren from 1938 is creating lot’s of short videos with his usual hilarity and ridiculous characters. BUT – the news is all real and the OPINION IS FRESH. It is real.

Today we welcome Brian Clark, a stud blogger. He is from Dallas and we hate each other when it come to hoops, but I read him everyday. New to his arsenal is Tubetorial a good idea and he is executing on it!

If you are a blogger and/or you just want to see some cool, original, fresh ideas – please start checking us out daily.

Most supportive of all has been my wife Ellen. This whole project has been a latent passion of mine from the time I read a James Cramer post in 1998. She knows it and has been behind it. I am a lucky man. My kids – Rachel and Max – have put up with some real sloppy attention from me while I coordinate with my partners and all the bloggers in getting ready. They want to be in the show, but I can’t fall into the Sonny and Cher trap :) . They could do a Blackberry three-hour miniseries.

I expect to have a widget with the show – any moment – on the top right sidebar. Revver has been super supportive of the whole process and giving us what we need.

The Wallstrip site is super sweet and a I owe that to my partner Dominic at The Blogging Times. He has created this with such little direction from me and I love it. Hope you do as well.

Adam and Jeff at Bright Red Pictures believe passionately in the project and understand that this is a marathon. We will not please everybody on a daily basis but they understand the production business and I am in great hands. They have some real cool stuff planned for the show.

The financial widgets are coming and they are coooool. We will be rolling them out weekly.

The bloggers are really passionate about stocks and I think you will meet some great ones at the site. Some familiar and some brand new.

I hope most of all that you share your ideas, join the conversation and together we make some better investment decisions.

Deep down, I want to make you laugh out loud – with me or at me. Does not matter.

I have chosen Apple for the first show. It has had an incredible run the last few years. I love the Company, own the stock, have written incessantly about it in these pages and think the story is still misunderstood. From my perspective as a blogger, and the show itself, I am not about BUY, BUY, BUY or SELL, SELL, SELL. I follow trends and don’t trade much anymore.

I do want to understand if the trend can continue. That is really the show. Just a little bit more than a show about nothing, BUT look how well that one did :) .

In Apple’s case, MY OPINION is that the trend is early.

NOBODY has EVER done retail like Apple. I doubt we will see a retailer in our lifetime that has captured the imagination of the consumer. At 164 stores – who the F@$@ck cares if the iPod slows. If Apple executes on their retail plan, sales should quadruple in 4-5 years time.

Why focus on anything else if you are a long-term believer? I’m not.