James Poniewozik wrote Wednesday that the Colbert speech is becoming “the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006.” So it seems that thanks to the Internet, this speech may end up getting the attention it deserves. Maybe. Poniewozik writes for TIME, but this piece appear on his Tuned In blog for TIME.com. So while Poniewozik uses the […]
It looks like some other people, some of them from mainstream media outlets, noticed the lopsided coverage of the White House press correspondents’ dinner. Since I wrote my previous post, a number of other bloggers, followed by a number of web sites associated with newspapers and TV shows (as well as major online magazines like […]
Steven Colbert gave a dark and bitingly funny speech at last night’s White House press correspondents’ dinner. Colbert spoke after President Bush himself, who appeared with Bush impersonator Steve Bridges acting as the President’s internal monologue as the two delivered a speech. The Bush/Bridges duo was innocuous but uproariously funny. Colbert’s speech was much more […]
For the next few weeks, I’ll be filling in for Jo-Anne, Michelle, and Helen, blogging about networked performance, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, net art, and more for Turbulence.org’s networked_performance blog.
In a recent appearance on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Sean Hannity castrated Jack Spadaro, a mine-safety expert, for suggesting that the Bush Administration’s lax enforcement of mine regulations contributed to the Sago tragedy. But it turns out that Spadaro was on target, and Hannity was the one out of line.
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I’m way behind the times on this one, but apparently, Yahoo! bought del.icio.us in early December. With Flickr, del.icio.us helps form a collection of leading web tools for “power users,” a field where Yahoo seems to be leading right now. Google owns Picassa and Hello, which are decent products, but not quite competitive with Flickr […]
Today Apple finally announced the release of the first Macintosh computers built with Intel chips. The new chips bring Macs up to speed with their PC competition, and ensure that Mac will be able to keep pace in the future.
Knowing that Apple would soon switch to Intel-based laptops was the primary reason I’d been waiting […]
Even though Flickr is now owned by Yahoo! it is being entirely non-proprietary about allowing users to make prints, posters, calendars, DVDs, stamps, etc. out of their Flickr-posted photos. This is really quite generous and forward thinking, and suggests to me that Yahoo! realizes it has a gem of a web site and that it […]
I tend to give Google the benefit of the doubt about things because their search results have stayed unbiased, they’ve introduced new quality products, and their advertisements are relevant and unobtrusive. This deal could change all of that and make Google into a Yahoo! or MSN clone.
Yuck. Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn is trying to […]
Microsoft is planning to open up its document standard in response to a decision by Massachusetts (backed by Governor Romney) to migrate all state produced documents to the PDF and OpenDoc formats (OpenDoc is incompatible with Microsoft Office). While Romney has welcomed Microsoft’s plan, the general consensus among technology news media is that their plan […]