Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Friday Bullets For The Golden Age Of Orange
Posted by on Friday, March 13, 2009 in - 17 comments
It was 1:22 am when the game ended. I only made it to about four overtimes listening on UConn's radio AM 1080 out of Hartford but Syracuse won. So that was good. I thought I was staying up late to watch Cramer on John Stewart but that was a fold. I kept waiting for Cramer to say "but you don't …
One Other Useful Way You Can Actually Use The Internet
Posted by on Thursday, March 12, 2009 in - 14 comments
One of the webby things that is actually good out of all the widgets on the internet are actually those little opportunities to just give feedback. Be honest. Web 2.0 continues to disappoint: being disappointed by your Facebook friends, time suck, workplace inefficiency, being bored by seventeen …
"This Column Is By A Finance Crime Convict"
Posted by on Sunday, March 8, 2009 in - 2 comments
Why doesn't the National Post point that out as part of the byline on Conrad Black's musings? I mean at the end of my fellow blogger Stephen Taylor's NP posts on the same "Full Comment" feature it states in sort of a footnote: • Stephen Taylor is a scientist, political analyst and a Fellow at … read more »
Friday Bullets For March And Melting And Mucus
Posted by on Friday, March 6, 2009 in - 9 comments
I am tired of being sick with a cold. The first day you relish staying in bed. The second day you forget the passing of time and are surprised when the sun sets. By the eighth day, you can't tell if your are getting better or just no longer sensing whole sections of your corporeal being. Is that …
Some Hope For The Hoodie And Other Freedoms
Posted by on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in - 4 comments
After years of obsession with surveillance, are the British starting to realize its limitations and its corrosive effect? • Shadow justice secretary Dominic Grieve also spoke to the London audience, arguing that the government's desire to control risk in society was "destroying our quality of …
Doom '09: Where Is That Recession Happening Anyway?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 in - 2 comments
When the news media collapses - after the traders in swamplands, certain rabid bloggers and political hacks on radio have their wish or way - I will most miss the interactive mapping provided by the New York Times like this one of county-by-county US unemployment rates. I have noted it before but …
In Praise Of British Sci-Fi TV And Other Cheesy Things
Posted by on Sunday, February 22, 2009 in - 11 comments
I had a tinge of jealousy yesterday as I watched the behind the scenes bonus documentary that came with the DVD of the 1975 Doctor Who "The Sontaran Experiment." In the documentary, the writers, technical producers and stunt men explain how limited the resources were, how nothing really worked as …
How To Look Really Really Needy On Twitter
Posted by on Thursday, February 19, 2009 in - leave a comment
Looks like someone had too much of the Twitterberry pie today. I wonder why he didn't just write "Obama came to Canada to see me! Me!!" Sure, we all know PM Harper has a cube farm of Albertan teens on the Twitter mill but do we really need eight or so twit-units rammed into one 140 character space?
Oh Goodie! The CRTC Asks About Ruling The Web!!!
Posted by on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 in - 44 comments
It boggles the mind. It feels like the CRTC toying with rolling back the clock and examining ideas around somehow nationalizing a segment of the internet, like a mapled AOL, gating a bit of the web and only letting people in who are carrying Tim Horton cups. What do the actors say about this …
More People Now Read The NY Times On Line
Posted by on Monday, February 2, 2009 in - 14 comments
So, if the daily circulation of the New York Times is about 1,000,000 with more on the weekend and the web readership has gone from 34,000,000 to over 40,000,000 a month in 2008...how exactly is it that it is becoming irrelevant? Isn't it just suffering from the web as a business model but not the …
