By Rob on Jun 19, 2008 in News | 0 Comments
After a recent DMCA struggle between the left-leaning news site, the Drudge Report and the Associated Press about using AP links to reference stories, Buzz Machine Jeff Jarvis wonders if this could be a final rally for a once-great, sinking news network. The focus, he asserts, should now be on crediting the local sources of […]
By Rob on Jun 12, 2008 in News | 0 Comments
Tech geeks have been soiling themselves since Monday in excitement over Apple reducing the cost of the too-nice-for-a-pocket iPhone to $200 from $400 and adding enhanced networking features. What people don’t know is that the plans associated with it actually make the iPhone 3G approximately $160 more expensive over the life of a two-year plan. […]
By Rob on Jun 12, 2008 in Featured, News, Technology | 0 Comments
A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, on the modes of communication allowed, which does not restrict content, sites or platforms, and where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.
There is a growing fear among the tech-savvy that telecommunications companies […]
By Rob on May 19, 2008 in Featured, politics | 0 Comments
I am getting concerned. With Sen. Hillary Clinton gumming up the works for the Dems only possible candidate and McCain keeping a clever silence until the fog of war clears it is any wonder if there will be anything left to vote for in November.
Hillary won West Virginiaby a huge margin and, just before her […]
By Rob on Mar 18, 2008 in politics | 0 Comments
I shouldn’t have to tell you how ridiculous it is to believe that the FBI’s Terror Watch List contains nearly a million American citizens. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has placed a counter on it’s website to keep track of the number.
Many innocent U.S. citizens have trouble at airports and have to go through […]
By Rob on Mar 10, 2008 in Featured, News, politics | 3 Comments
New York’s first-term Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon publicly apologized for the “involvement” in prostitution he admitted this morning. Police released to the New York Times evidence that Spitzer was the client of a high-end prostitution ring called Emperor’s Club.
Much of the televised media is reporting it as, “Spitzer admits involvement in prostitution to […]
By Rob on Mar 6, 2008 in News, Video | 0 Comments
I honestly couldn’t believe my ears when presidential hopeful Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-NY actually started using the press as part of her campaign tactics - and not even the way most politicians do.
Politicos can dish it, spin it, and repackage it and journalists will do whatever they can to extract the delicate truth from whatever […]
By Rob on Feb 26, 2008 in Environment, Featured, News | 2 Comments
An article in the Observer of England that was published a few years back has been stirring people up after hitting the top of Digg recently. In 2004 the Observer managed to obtain a “suppressed” Pentagon report claiming that by 2020 we will live on shrunken continents with crumbling social infrastructures. And all because we […]
By Rob on Feb 21, 2008 in Technology, Video | 0 Comments
So I switched to Vista. In fact, I’m typing on it right now.
Does that offend you? Did you just suffer, like most of my friends, from the “Ew, Vista?” reflex. It smells like acid-reflux breath in all my friends lately.
But despite its many flaws, Vista has a lot of potential. First let me talk about […]