Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category
As noted earlier, Librarything is a handy place to post books and an example of new media working together with, rather than competing with, old media. Which is why I am rather frustrated that wordpress is doing some kind of censoring of Librarything widgets in the borders of blogs hosted on wordpress.com. Why [...]
Ok, another new theme, another chance lost.
All that I would like is a theme that is:
1. NOT fixed width
2. Can have light letters on a dark backround
3. Not be really weird or unusual.
It would be really nice, but not necessary, for the theme to have a customizable header.
There are so many, many ways to make [...]
Groklaw has the news about Novell and Red Hat being hit by a Patent Infringement lawsuit from a certain ‘IP Innovation LLC”, noting that Ballmer has been making threats in the last week or so:
IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, [...]
Hat Tip: TLF
An interesting web application that the New York Times put on their website allowing you to search the transcript of the Presidential debates for any particular word. You can roll your cursor over the highlighted portions of the text, and you will see that snippet of text, which you can click on [...]
Many people have noticed that the web has not treated all old media equally. The recording music industry is having its business model stressed by both the long tail of available music, as well as large-scale copying. Newspapers have had their ad revenue streams decimated by on-line phenomena such as craigslist.
However, books have [...]
Interesting little video showing Canadian (probable) undercover police agents trying to stir up violence at a protest. The undercover agents are the ones with the rocks in their hands, and the masks on their faces. This has happened before, certainly, but with video camaras being just about everywhere, and anyone being able to [...]
As a follow-up to my post about the delusion, seemingly common among many Americans, that America has the best health care in the world, it seems appropriate to link to an interesting article over at the Nieman Center, noting the lack of in-depth coverage of the Canadian health care system in US media. (It [...]
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