Location is the frontier du jour. The explosion of geolocation apps and the eagerness of people to use them, has prompted services like Twitter to get into the game. People want to know where you are and maybe already do. Welcome to the place race
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Tags: cell phones, cities, geolocation, mobile technology, social networking, Twitter
Posted in Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Technology | 4 Comments »
Devo's forthcoming studio, long play release is their first in twenty years and return as a working act comes in a new era where "de-evolution is real and Devo is normal".
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Tags: Deevolution, Devo, music, Olympics
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Internet, Music, Perspectives | 6 Comments »
Despite all the other Buzz around Google lately, its other announcement last week is the real big deal: Google's plan to build an experimental 1 Gbps, fiber-to-the-home broadband network will have a big impact on net neutrality and broadband stimulus policies.
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Tags: broadband, digital media, FCC, Google, internet, National Broadband Plan, net neutrality, policy, social networking
Posted in Internet, Perspectives | 4 Comments »
The women of the style blogging communities consciously use fashion to shape their identities, form connections with one another, and define particular iterations of contemporary femininity.
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Tags: blogs, fashion, femininity, style
Posted in Internet, Perspectives | 15 Comments »
Continuing with our series, what websites would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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Tags: 2000s, internet, lists, webpages
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, What Do You Think? | 15 Comments »
A deal that will indelibly alter our media landscape, throw the future of broadcast into question, promise new distribution models, expand interactive and “addressable” advertising… a deal that will fundamentally redefine television. No, I’m not talking about the Comcast-NBC Universal announcement that made waves last week. This was the hype surrounding the...
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Tags: Information superhighway, interactive television, mergers
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Last week Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention not to run for reelection (big) if and when a vote is held. This isn't the forum to discuss the political significance of this move, but I thought I'd throw out some quick observations on the international media side of the story.
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Tags: internet, Israel, journalism, Mahmoud Abbas, New York Times, Palestine
Posted in Global, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Print | 1 Comment »
Felicia Day demonstrates that she is almost-famous, in at least one corner of the internet, with some help from Wil Wheaton.
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Tags: digital media, geeks
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