AltWeeklies Wire
Bringing the Earth's Soundtrack to Your Computernew
Bio-acoustician Bernie Krause is working with Google Maps and Google Earth to allow people to hear field sounds from anywhere in the world.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Joy Lanzendorfer |
09-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: Google, computers & technology
Ask Hiba!new
How Facebook spawned an unauthorized Ann Landers at Middlebury College.
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
08-30-2007 |
Tech
The Rise of the YouTube Mash Upnew
Welcome to a whole new set of copyright issues as video websites provide users with tools to clone, edit, post-produce, and reappropriate the works of others.
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
08-30-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Expansion of Portland's Free Wi-Fi is Stallednew
Pacific Power and the wi-fi provider, MetroFi, have failed to strike a deal for how much to charge MetroFi for drawing power to run its system.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
08-29-2007 |
Tech
Park Avenue Peerage is Watching From a Distancenew
How James Kurisunkal blogged his way onto New York City's social scene from his dorm room in central Illinois.
Chicago Reader |
John Mantia |
08-27-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Second Life's Fab Fashionistanew
Aimee Weber virtual label gives a new look to the web world's avatars.
NOW Magazine |
Ian Daffern |
08-24-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Anonymity Trouble: The Satisfactions of Wikiscannernew
Virgil Griffith has revealed something far more fundamental than the fact that acolytes of Pepsi and the CIA will stop at nothing to propagandize on behalf of their employers: he's undermined the myth of the anonymous blogger in the basement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
08-22-2007 |
Tech
Peer-to-peer Under Firenew
Never mind copyright -- security's now the big P2P network issue.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
08-20-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
State Farm Clarifies its iPhone Policynew
Although the company allows insurance on iPhones to be sold, local underwriters, who are divided into zones, have discretion to give an ultimate yea or nay.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
08-16-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Jogging Gear Goes High Technew
Manufacturers have always been eager to tap the jogger market -- this summer, runners have more options than ever.
NOW Magazine |
David Silverberg |
08-10-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Crack 2.0new
Our culture's jones for text messaging, personal devices and all things hyperconnected may soon be officially classified as an addictive disorder -- are you hooked?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Erin Sherbert |
08-09-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Kids Safer Online!new
People have been freaking out about how new distribution networks bring pornography to children for nearly half a century.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
08-09-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Hit This Site: BeaverLikeMammals.comnew
"It's for those times when you see a furry animal by the side of the road and you ask yourself, 'Is that a beaver?!' and then you realize that it isn't, but it's still fun!"
C-Ville Weekly |
Nell Boeschenstein |
08-08-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Sordid Tales on Sickopedianew
Displaying an agenda in online encyclopedias.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
07-30-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
Futures Not Taken: Toffler's Future Shocknew
Of Orson and Dongtan.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
07-30-2007 |
Tech
Tags: computers & technology
