Could you imagine having to subscribe to every application, every song, every video game, every premium website, and most other forms of content you interact with on a daily basis? Well, the possibility that this will occur is constantly growing, and if it is bound to happen, we should expect this trend to become fairly popular within the next 10 years. While businesses would benefit from the increased control, consumers might not be as appreciative to these change.

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Robert Scoble, owner of the Scobleizer and FastCompany.TV, has had an interesting opinion about comments on blogs—Simply put, he believes comments are dying. It really is a coin-flip, but comments on blogs are really becoming the subject of discussion lately. But why would they be dying, and does this mean that blogs are dying as well?

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What is Stardock? Well, if you decide to visit Stardock’s website today, you will see various things: my desktop, a collection of desktop enhancement applications; my games, a gathering of computer games; and my tools, a slew of tools designed to assist computer users. This is a vast amount of applications, but it is even more interesting in finding out how it all came to be.

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Research In Motion (RIM), the very company that brought us the BlackBerry, has firmly stated that the company plans to push forward against Apple amidst frustrated investors who don’t see eye to eye. While sacrificing recently earned profits, the company plans on developing new products to compete with Apple’s iPhone.

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Things used to be different back then, but nowadays, it seems that good things are no good at all. Apparently, making plenty of money is a bad thing for consumers in the corporate world. Quite a few internet service providers believe they should charge more and offer less. Now I might not be a rocket scientist, but I thought the price of internet was supposed to decrease with time—you know—just like the rest of the world.

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Delicious, previously “del.icio.us”, has pretty much established a solid position in the social bookmarking market. Unfortunately, the company has dropped the bomb with their latest extension for Firefox 3. The Delicious blog is quickly filling with many discouraging comments. The plugin renders Firefox 3 useless at times, and, as expected, has upset many users.

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What’s a great operating system without amazing applications? Well, the answer is obvious, but, thankfully, Mac OS X has no shortages in that regard. Time and time again, I end up downloading a new application that just blows my mind. Not only are there so many great applications, but they are all quality applications as well. I wanted to take this time to share with you all some of my favorites.

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Zappos, a company that sells shoes, is something else. No, really, they do things that many companies wouldn’t dare do to their employees. What is this you ask? Well, they pay them to quit! Yeah, that’s right, Zappos bribes their employees with $1,000 to quit their jobs. It might sound odd, but it really does work.

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I wake up, power-on the laptop, and wait, nothing unusual. Mac OS X will be loaded soon. Soon after, an alert from NetNewsWire informs me that there are new stories and blog posts which need attention. You know what, it is right after this moment when I realize that today I am in blogging paradise. The great thing about this day, it happens everyday, and you should know that I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Even though I am not particularly sure if Firefox 3 is ready for prime-time on the Mac OS X, Mozilla has decided that June 17th, 2008, will be when Mozilla attempts to break a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period. I’m not sure what the previous record is, but I am confident that Mozilla can ready the champagne.