AltWeeklies Wire
Why News is Still Good News on the Internetnew
Michael Wolff's new site Newser is useful and intelligent, but not yet special enough to be an essential daily stop.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
09-21-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Blah Blogs Morph into Useful Resourcesnew
At what point does a blog become an online specialty magazine, a news service, an information conglomerator, a collaborative wiki created by devotees, or an annotated archive of rare audio or video?
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
07-13-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Mobile Monopoly Old News to Canadiansnew
There's no doubt that the current troika of companies stopped competing with each other and settled into a comfortable and mutually profitable detente.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
07-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Geek of the Week: DailyLit.comnew
This free service will educate you with book classics, a chunk of text at a time.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
06-08-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Computers Spurred a Filmic Renaissancenew
"Open the pod bay doors" just wouldn't mean as much without our constant companions.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
06-01-2007 |
Movies
Geek of the Week: Placeblogger.comnew
Placeblogger organizes blogs by neighborhood, city, region and country to make it easier to pick up the chatter from far-off locales.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
05-11-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
IMDB Redesign Splices a New Film Historynew
IMDB was wiki a dozen years before wiki came into usage, and it's as if the web was built for it to exist in -- so this was probably less of a wikification than a redesign to highlight some information categories that had a low profile or hadn't existed before.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
05-07-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
VHS to DVDnew
Yes, it's time to digitize those precious tapes.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
04-27-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Geek of the Week: Archive.orgnew
From live concerts to corny old corporate-training films and absolutely everything in between, this site alone is almost all the Internet anyone needs.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
04-27-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
USB Turntables Raise Vinyl From the Deadnew
Converting vinyl into digital: it's somebody's duty to digitize those lost moments.
The Georgia Straight |
Dave Watson |
04-13-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
