Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 15th:

• Game, DVD Sales Hurting Music Industry More Than Downloads – Seems like a reasonable, but statistically unprovable hypothesis. Would be interesting to see a real study on the changing buying patterns. I know that my game playing time and spending has seriously moved away from music and TV to games over the last 5 years… durn you Xbox and WoW!
• Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider) – The money quote and actual limiter / determiner of how fast this happens "ubiquitous high-speed internet". I think this guy's guesstimate of 5-10 years is aggressive when you look at the small penetration of things like DVRs, Hulu, etc. that to high-tech users feels so "last century", but actually isn't for the broader U.S. population. Not even the majority of high-tech game players have their consoles online yet and these platforms offer great access to TV alternative channels. Could I turn off my DirecTV service tomorrow, leaving only my cable modem connection and see everything I want to see? Yes, with the exception of NFL football, which I'd certainly learn to live without, but I'd also be forced into doing a lot of my content acquisition and watching via "illegal" means. Why? Cuz there isn't enough free / ad-based internet content to cover all that I want to watch yet and I'm NEVER going to pay per show out of my own pocket, so BT would be employed. Consequently, my DirecTV stays for now and I suspect for 5-10 years for me and much longer for the wider U.S. population.
• '#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence (Daniel Terdiman/CNET News) – CNN and fail seem redundant to me. If I was as whacked out to the right as those on the left, I'd be crying about some conspiracy because CNN seems so in love all things anti-American that they wouldn't cover anything showing our enemies in a bad light. That of course sounds even out there for me, so I'll just chalk this up to continued incompetence further dragging CNN to even deeper realms of the ratings-basement.
• Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) – So open up the thing already! I want it NOW and will be really, really happy to transfer my phone number as soon as that's ready.
• Take Your Sites to the Cloud (for Free) with Force.com – Interesting. An enterprise class alternative to Google Sites? Not being a developer, I'm not going to dive too much into the application coding side much, but knowing what I do of SF.com's service / platform, this certainly sounds more powerful and flexible than Google Sites which in my personal experience is fine for personal use, a SMB or as a side "forum" for business units in a larger enterprise, but not much else.
• Microsoft justifies that $60 sticker on ODST – Why does MS have to justify the price? If it is too much, don't buy it.
• Microsoft’s Browser Move to Make Windows Even More Annoying – Funny how Microsoft is the one blamed for hurting users and not the real culprits… over bearing, power hungry government bureaucrats. Welcome to unintended consequences of the nanny-fascists!