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Apple’s WWDC, Steve Jobs Keynote, and a Whole Bunch of Crazy

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

You’re not going to find any news breaking on this blog as the keynote unfolds and everybody goes crazy, but what I will say, quickly, as we all sit and wait for the speech is this:
Apple has built a stronger brand than has ever been created before.
Think about it.  We all know what’s going to […]

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Tags: Internet Mish-Mash · Technology

Switchabit Just Pulled The Creepiest Shit That Has Ever Happened

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Edit 6/4/08 - Jay from the Switchabit team has again proven to be very helpful and the problems seem at this point to be very creepy indeed, but not Switchabit related.  If Jay’s diagnosis (involving multiple IPs from my router) is correct, then their help has amounted to far more than content distribution hiccups.  Still […]

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Tags: Business · Editorial · Internet Mish-Mash · Technology · api

Top Chef’s judges are dumb-

May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last night’s top chef was almost as good as last week’s top chef- even though it was not as intense it was still a good, smart challenge. The chef’s had to cook “boxed lunches” for a bunch of cops- and it had to be healthy. Last night also featured an appearance from Top […]

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Tags: Celebrity · Culture · Technology

Twistori Launches New Features: Secretly?

May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today Twistori, the beautiful work of Twitter art that has already wasted hours of my time, sent out this tweet:
so secret #1 involves the letter “R”… we’ve got a fun little treat for whoever finds it first! @twistori us if you find it!
It […]

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Tags: Internet Mish-Mash · Neat Stuff · Technology

Search for a Cause

May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Robots & Empire has just launched a custom google search.
Much like Blackle, this bad boy is black, and does all the Google can do.
The catch?
All revenue generated from search queries will be used to launch a microlending fund for third world nations.
Other individual investors have pledged to match any accrued revenue with dollars of their […]

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Tags: Business · Culture · Editorial · Featured · Internet Mish-Mash · Technology

An open letter to BMI: I take Paypal.

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

As TechCrunch reports, ASCAP has just won a lawsuit against major online music streaming services in the amount of $100mm for artists.
My question:  When will BMI be mailing my check?
My music’s getting streamed all over the fuck, and on many of those aforementioned networks.
My case isn’t against musical streaming.  My case is against music publishers […]

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Tags: Business · Music · Technology

Video Commenting Added to Blaglash!

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Video Commenting Added to Blaglash! 

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Tags: Technology

Live Blogging Yahoo! Q1 08 Conference Call

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

First, some preliminary slides Yahoo released earlier.
I’ll be recording the conference call so you’ll be able to listen to it here if you miss it now.

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Tags: Internet · Internet Mish-Mash · Technology

Blogging Doesn’t Work (Or at least not like we’d hope).

April 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Blog: Noun.

A new medium invented sometime around the turn of the 21st century that allows anyone to post stories and content to the internet.
A way to kill the dinosaur journalists of mainstream media.

I’ve got no qualms with the first definition. However, the true power of blogs lies in the second. This newfangled way […]

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Tags: Culture · Editorial · Featured · Gossip · Internet · Internet Mish-Mash · News · Technology

Utu - Saving the Internet with Hate

April 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Zed Shaw’s always on some crazy shit, but here’s some crazy shit.
Utu is a new software package that hopes to “save the internet with hate.”
Here’s the premise:
The internet is overrun by trolls and aggressors who are free to do as they please, using the internet as their spambot, and are able to continue because there […]

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