AltWeeklies Wire
The Summer's Best Sitcoms Aren't on TV. They're Onlinenew
There's no need to pay for cable if you've got a nearby wi-fi connection. What's more, some of the best sitcoms currently being made are only available online.
Willamette Week |
Staff |
07-09-2008 |
TV
The Something Store Restores Suspense to the Webnew
While we may enjoy the detailed Mapquest directions, the thorough Hotels.com reviews, the "most e-mailed" New York Times articles, we still yearn for mystery, too. Or at least the idea of mystery. And that's why the Something Store exists. For $10, shipping included, this online enterprise will send you something in a plain brown package with a large question mark on it.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Greg Beato |
07-07-2008 |
Tech
Wireless Philadelphia is Still Around, but Its Objectives are Differentnew
If low-income residents can grab a brand-spanking-new free wireless signal anywhere on the streets of Philadelphia using laptops they probably don't own, can't afford and don't know how to use, does it count as digital inclusion?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tasneem Paghdiwala and Anthony Campisi |
06-30-2008 |
Tech
Inside the Murky Legal World of Cyber-Snoopingnew
Law enforcement agencies have a number of legal tools at their disposal, recently broadened with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendment bill that lets telecoms off the hook. They have made so many requests of Comcast, in fact, that last year the company decided to distribute a document called Comcast Cable Law Enforcement Handbook, which details how the fuzz can get your stuff.
Charleston City Paper |
Joshua Curry |
06-25-2008 |
Tech
How to Make Money on the Internetnew
With the economy in a free fall and jobs disappearing faster than the bubbles in a Red Bull, it was a relief to drop in on the third Seed Conference and get a jolt of high-energy confidence about the future.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
06-24-2008 |
Tech
A Small North Carolina City Leads the Way to Faster, Cheaper Internet Accessnew
The municipal broadband movement fills the big gap between the internet speeds Americans need and those they're getting from a profit-driven telecommunications industry. The city of Wilson is on the cutting edge of that movement. It is among the newest of 44 publicly owned fiber networks serving more than 60 communities across the country.
Note to Self: Don't Download Porn at Worknew
Three local university employees are out of a job after a state investigation revealed they had illegally downloaded materials, including porn, on work computers.
Three Internet Myths That Won't Dienew
The internet is free, accessible, and dangerous? Hardly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
06-18-2008 |
Tech
Marc Brodzik on His Launch of Scrapple.TVnew
Scrapple.TV, an internet TV station, exists at the moment is a virtual pirate TV commune featuring every badass art bastard and stared-at-in-the-street crazy Philly street culture freak around.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Steven Wells |
06-16-2008 |
Tech
Has Social Networking Created a Monster?new
It's easy to let our Luddite tendencies overwhelm us and lead us to think those on the cutting edge of technology have got some sort of neurotic obsession that needs a cure. Facebook took a while to catch on; so did cell phones, so did email, so did laptops and software and floppy disks and modems and faxes and IBM Selectrics.
New York Press |
Bobby Julian |
06-12-2008 |
Tech
imeem Cashes In as Mixtapes Go Viralnew
Labels and artists say imeem.com is lighting up their radar lately thanks to the San Francisco tech company's reinvention of the humble mixtape. Each month 22.5 million people log in and create playable lists of their favorite tracks (muxtapes), then share them with their friends via e-mail, MySpace, Facebook, and instant message.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
06-11-2008 |
Music
The Kindle and the iPhone Aren't Changing the Worldnew
They are just putting a new interface on yesterday's innovations. When you want to evaluate whether a piece of tech really is "revolutionary," just put it to the simple singularity acid test. Ask yourself if you could explain it in a few sentences to people living 100 years ago. So let's sit down with your typical resident of San Francisco in 1908, and explain Kindle and iPhone to her.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
06-11-2008 |
Tech
Multimedia Man David Carr Gives Us Some Urgent Advicenew
Carr was at the annual AAN convention in Philadelphia this weekend reminding alt–weeklies they can keep their ships afloat. He stressed the importance of multimedia as staff cutbacks, the uncertainty of profit and the uncharted push to the internet continue to challenge the industry.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Brian James Kirk |
06-10-2008 |
Media
Google's New Server Farm Comes to Oregonnew
A quiet Oregon town will host the servers crucial to Google's physical network.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
06-04-2008 |
Tech
Confessions of an Internet TV Junkienew
Competitive reality shows, sitcoms, Wristcutters: A Love Story -- I need them all.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-03-2008 |
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