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The GMail Panic Button
From TechCrunch Have you ever sent an email, and just as it was going on its merry way, you realize you misspelled something or you sent it to the wrong person. This happens to me a lot on Gmail because sending an email is not always instant. An...
The Death of Newspapers
From CNN.com The Rocky Mountain News was the latest victim in an era of shutdowns, layoffs and cutbacks plaguing the newspaper industry. “It’s in a free fall and nobody knows where the bottom is. It’s kind of like water in the ...
Last.fm vs. TechCrunch and the State of Journalism
From the Last.fm blog (Last.HQ On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 albu...
Facebook Refuses to Remove Deceased Realative’s Data
Story Facebook thinks it knows better than the sister of the deceased journalist Bill Bemister about what to do with his Facebook page. Stephanie Bemister sent them a copy of his death certificate and asked it get taken down for privacy and resp...
Intel’s Top Five Teen Internet Privacy Tips
From Intel (Warning — .pdf, requires Adobe Reader) After reading this file and a quick analysis by someone, I wondered why the word teen was specified. It doesn’t seem as if a) this list specified things only teens do (it’s ver...
Browser Wars: The Punishment Due
In December, popular swiss cheese browser Internet Explorer dropped to a 69% marketshare, while Firefox and others pick up the slack, the former breaking to 21% (Source). This is the end of a longstanding trend in the browser war, with IE droppi...
Jones’ Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage
http://www.jonesbigasstruckrentalandstorage.com/ Yes, it’s another one of those “Tired/No Time/I Can BS a Post” days. This is an interesting look on the “Mom and Pop” commercials and advertising. The commercial is e...
The Problem With Digg
I’m a prolific Digg user. Whenever I’m bored, I check there to see the popular stories, answer my shouts, etc. I’ve attempted to use Digg to help promote my site in the past, and it hasn’t gone well. However, there are so...
FF Addon Trojan
Away this weekend, but I’ll post a link to an article you should read about internet filtering: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-australias-internet-filtering-too-ambitious-doomed-to-fail.html No related posts. No related ...
Facebook Ettiquite - A Neccesary Evil, or just Evil?
C. G. Lynch of PCWorld writes an article describing 5 do’s and related don’ts of social networking (specifically for Facebook, but I think a lot of the points apply to most, if not all, social networking sites). Most of these article...
EYE CANDY - Drugs you can Taste
Source Eye Candy is a product that can “transmit vivid emotive images into your mind’s eye.” Essentially, it’s a USB lollipop that gives you psychadelic images. For those of you at home who are as confused as I am, I have...
Describing Spam: Almost as Hard as Avoiding It
On the internet, there is no concept more confusing and disturbing than spam. It’s a phenomenon that is hard to describe. The first attempt is unsollicited messages, messages you don’t want. However, does this include the weekly lolc...
The Internet is Awesome
I shouldn’t need to tell you this. You should already know. The fact that you’ve been lead here to this post is a good enough reason to assume that you’ve been around the IP block a few times. However, let me reiterate. The int...
New Media should Borrow from Old Media
What is New Media? At this point, it’s the result of a pseudo-schism from Old Media. Old Media didn’t have personality, so New Media requires it. Old Media tried to stay unbiased, New Media doesn’t care. Unfortenately, one of t...
Google Tracks Flu Outbreaks
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/tracking-flu-trends.html For those of you who won’t RTFA, Google.org is now using Google Zeitgeist (the tracking of number of searches on Google) to track flu outbreak patterns. According to their own...
Audio vs. Video Podcasts
New media is young. It does not yet know what it wants to be. Is it TV? Of course not. Is it trying to be TV? In some cases, yes. What it really is is a revolution in the delivery system, i.e. like a TiVo but with a ton of content. You can get w...
How to Get Discovered
Iceman made a comment on yesterday’s post about ingolo.com that, among other things, asked how I found out about it. This led me to think about the idea of discovery on the internet, and the extreme difficulty behind it. If bloggers and bu...
Useful Site–Ingolo.com: How to Pronounce EVERYTHING
Ever argue over how to pronounce Vladimir Putin? Desu? Crayon? This site is for you. It’s like a Wikipedia for pronouncing things, which is great for any internet dweller. Since we read things instead of hear them usually, it’s nice ...
