Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
As Barack Obama made history, Twitter sustained record-breaking activity on its microblogging service as voters across the globe tweeted their election night reactions.
“We’ve yet to do a full analysis for election day, but last night we saw messages per second peak at about 2-3 times what they did during the first presidential debate — which [...]
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
When I was on the high school debate team, about 15 years ago, using the Internet was considered strange, if not cheating. We used photocopy machines, print magazines and academic journals almost exclusively. That time in the world’s history is now gone forever.
When Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debated in front of one of the [...]
What is ACTA?
In October 2007 the United States, the European Community, Switzerland and Japan simultaneously announced that they would negotiate a new intellectual property enforcement treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada have joined the negotiations. Although the [...]
<From Larry Magid’s post on Yahoo Kids Blog>
You probably know about social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook and blogging services like Blogger.com and WordPress but have you heard of microblogging?
Services like Twitter and Plurk let people post very short messages (140 characters or less) to their friends and acquaintances. Founded in 2006, Twitter [...]
In Jonathan Alter’s latest Newsweek column he talks about the rise of the bloggermedia and how the standards of traditional media have been tossed out the window. Now this is true in some respect. There are a lot of bloggers out there that spread rumors that aren’t true.
Everything about the Web is double-edged. [...]
Do we really need another “brilliant” man as president? From dvorak.org/blog. Had to repost
On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security “everything’s on the table,” which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: “Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won’t.”
This isn’t a flip-flop. It’s [...]
I know I’ve reamed out on the guys at Cuil enough, but this has me turning red. Those arrogant losers say their index is bigger than Google’s. They claim that they’ve indexed 120 billion (approx) pages, which they claim is way more than Google.
Well that’s interesting since Google just announced it hit the 1 TRILLIAN [...]
We must really be in a recession if Starbucks is in the midst of restructuring.
The fact that Starbucks is cutting jobs, is a stark example of how bad things are. Starbucks, one of the few companies to provide benefits to their part-time employees, is now doing what it needs to in order to survive. Wow [...]
Political graffiti
Originally uploaded by ngawangchodron
This is a play on the cartoon Pinky and the Brain that originally was part of the Animaniacs cartoon show. What’s scary is that this is how the rest of the world sees our country. The fact that our neighbors to the North (and around the World) think that this [...]
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