Monthly Archives: November 2008

Joost on the iPhone: Luxuriate in its Deliciousness

Not much else to say, other than it is slick and delicious, and unfortuantely only available using Wi-Fi.  I’ll be honest.  I haven’t checked out Joost in months (years?), and they’ve boosted their line up considerably.  Full length movies?  Check.  Anime?  Check.  Music Videos?  Check.  Downsides?  Totally unconfirmed reports (i.e. me) suggest that it drains [...]

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Will Qik Be The Next Twitter?

There’s been a lot of good debate around the use of Twitter at a time of crisis with the terrorist attacks in #Mumbai.  I think its probably going to be one of those perennial topics any time there’s a crisis until Twitter becomes as mainstream as blogs, although I knew something crossed the threshold when [...]

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Gamers Not Addicted, Merely Disabled. Socially, That is.

Interesting article from the BBC today on the changing attitudes of a clinic in Europe which treats “gaming addictions”.  The gist of things is that they’re changing the model with which they’re helping their clients, as they no longer view the majority of gamers who come to them as “addicts”; in fact, they claim that [...]

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Does Not Leaving Comments Matter?

Louis Gray spent a lot of time crafting a satirical post on the alleged “exchange rate” between comments and other means of interacting with a post — launched in part due to Allen Stern’s public bemoaning of a lack of comments thereof, and who is not alone in voicing there support for comments-on-blogs.
There are a [...]

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The Predictable (And Tragic) Evolution of New Media

Some news today on the tragic suicide of a young man captured on Justin.tv — Justin.tv being a tad different than, say, YouTube, as its one of those video services which streams content live.  That is to say, he committed suicide on “live” internet-streaming video.
The loss of a young life is always regrettable.  I think [...]

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Text-Link-Ads Debuts Inlinks.com — Hopes To Fly Under Googles Radar

Text-Link-Ads (disclosure: they had advertising on this blog for a loooong time — what’s up Patrick!) has recently unveiled one of its newest products: InLinks.com.  This service aims to match bloggers with advertisers in the paid-link arena, and makes no bones about it.  This is a marketplace which allows bloggers to sell their pagerank, as [...]

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The “Real” Dan Lyons Could Never Exist At Newsweek — Or Forbes, For That Matter

You may have heard that Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyon was forced to yank a couple of posts — and that he’s threatened (or may have actually) left his blogging post over the fact.  Although Valleywag does a nice timeline and decries the loss of another “real” voice in the tech blogosphere (note to Valleywag: [...]

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