Nov
30
Cinetopia Review
November 30, 2006 | 4 Comments
I took some time off from blogging during the Thanksgiving week and finally got around to check out Cinetopia Theaters, a digital projection only, fine dining, and plush seats theater in Vancouver, WA, right across the river from Portland, OR.
After reader reviews like this, I was more than happy to drive a few miles to […]
Nov
21
Intel’s geek extraordinair Josh Bancroft reviews the Asus R2H UMPC - with pictures — lots of pictures.
Technorati tags: umpc
Nov
21
In case anybody wonders why ‘Emsdetten’ is in the Technorati top searches today, there was a school shooting there yesterday. It’s a small town in western Germany, about a hundered miles south of Hamburg.
As usual, video games are being blamed for the event.
If you read German, here is what the German blogopshere has to say […]
Nov
21
Fake News and Digg
November 21, 2006 | 1 Comment
A fake story proclaiming that all PS3s were recalled because of a defect made it to the Digg homepage. There has been quite some uproar about this, but really, is it that much of a big deal?
Anybody who has ever watched the news and actually knew something about the item reported knows that the […]
Nov
15
Only 1% of Internet is Porn
November 15, 2006 | 1 Comment
Are you as surprised as I am? According to this Associated Press report:
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. government-commissioned study.
Government lawyers introduced the study in court this month as the Justice Department seeks to revive the 1998 Child Online […]
Nov
14
Google has updated the Google Desktop. Now with translucency and some updated visuals. Overall: a good update for a good product. It seems a bit less sluggish now, too.
The Google Desktop Sidebar
has always been great at delivering content personalized to individual
users, ever since it was introduced way back in the second version of
Google Desktop. But […]
Nov
14
Satellite Internet: The Good and the Bad
November 14, 2006 | 4 Comments
The New York Times features an article on internet access in rural areas today, with a focus on satellite services such as HughesNet, StarBand and WildBlue. Apparently, the three big ones are doing quite well for themselves:
Both Hughes and WildBlue, however, will launch satellites in the coming months equipped with new technology to provide access to […]
Nov
13
Engadget tested the software that comes with the Zune - and it sucked:
Ok, first thing we want to do? Obviously: options! Crap, as soon as we click the options button, it crashes.
Ah, the joys of using a first generation Microsoft product. Doesn’t “Spread the Music” sound like a disease? Who at Microsoft thought that was […]
Nov
13
MTV Update Website: It’s Crap
November 13, 2006 | 3 Comments
MTV has updated its website. It is so bad, it puts podshow.com to shame.
Lots of flashy goodness…
Technorati tags: mtv, design
Nov
12
Steve Gillmor and the Gang Leaving Podshow?
November 12, 2006 | 1 Comment
The latest Gillmor Gang must have ended in some kind of fiasco we listeners will never hear about (and even Jason Calacanis has been quiet about it - though I gather he wasn’t on the show anymore when all hell broke loose), but Dana Gardner today spills some other beans that hint at some potential reasons […]
Nov
12
It’s Josh Bancroft… and his daughter. His wife isn’t - she is going to have to vacuum all the packing peanuts…
Video is here.
I always wondered why the early buzz was so bad. It seemed that the devices could be very useful for a lot of people. I would love to have one for when I […]
Nov
12
Cellphones Sponsored By Ads? When Will It End?
November 12, 2006 | 1 Comment
CNN reports on Eric Schmidt saying that sooner or later mobile phones will be free to those who will accept to watch targeted commercials on the devices.
“Your mobile phone should be free,” Schmidt told Reuters. “It just makes sense that subsidies should increase” as advertising rises on mobile phones.
I wonder when consumers are going to […]
Nov
12
Podlines and Fonpods: Solutions Without a Problem
November 12, 2006 | 1 Comment
TechCrunch today reports on two services that allow you to listen to podcasts by dialing in from a cell-phone - Podlinez (note that cool ‘z’ at the end) and Fonpods.
Wow - what a useless concept. You really have to be addicted to the Daily Source Code to want to listen to Adam Curry yapping about […]
Nov
11
Thank You Wordpress For Kicking Out PPP blogs!
November 11, 2006 | 17 Comments
Wordpress.com has sent cease-and-desist messages to bloggers involved in the PayPerPost scheme. First one down to report, Colleen, the always unrepentant king of PPP, though she doesn’t host her spammy crap on Wordpress.com, others do.
Thank you wordpress for taking a stance against what is a cancer in the blogosphere.
Scoble agrees:
Also, if you want to put […]
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