Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Our 5 year-old daughter is now totally into monster and superhero movies, and so we were watching The Return of the Mummy the other night. The scene where the reconstituted mummy, who has powers and shit, raises up the waters of the Nile into a monstrous wave with his open-mouthed …

According to a new report issued today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2004 was the year blogs took off, with readership up 58%: By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American …

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

I — a hard-boiled veteran of the media contest wars — am pretty jaded, but this is an impressive prize package from Interscope/A&M: *2 tickets to every Interscope/A&M show in the winners hometown *every Interscope/A&M album that comes out in 2005 *plus other special prizes (including autographed items) throughout the …

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …

Projekt30 — the online gallery, run by artists, designed to expose artists to “brick and mortar” art galleries which may be interested in presenting their work — has its juried December exhibition up now, featuring the work of Adam Long Adriene Hughes Anna Delis Charlotta Hauksdottir Christina Neofotistou Debbie Angell …

Pew’s Internet and American Life Project has just released the first large-scale study of musician and artist views of the Internet, called, strangely enough, “Artists, Musicians and the Internet.” A national survey of self-described artists and an online survey of 2,755 musicians find: Artists and musicians on all points of …

People, we need your help. I am lukewarm at best about awards based upon mobilizing voters on your own behalf (or mobilizing bots to do the dirty work for you), but I am even less interested in sucking hosewater in said polls, especially when the vote totals are public and …

I have laid off the digital music wars for the most part of late because all parties — from the small-minded, self-defeating, niggardly record labels, to the disingenuous, spyware and corrupted file-laden file sharing services, to the morally oblique file sharers — share culpability for the current miasma. The legal …

Since we have hitched our wagon to their star, I can’t be called neutral, but I think Amazon is a reliable, generally customer-friendly company that has blazed the trail for general online retail for the masses. That they are actually making money at it is impressive and reassuring for e-business …