June 2009
36 posts
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman →
Here’s a cute story about a 13-year old who accounted his experience exchanging his iPod for a Walkman. For me, reading this peace is quite eye-opening — It didn’t occur to me that we’ve come so far in portable music that the use of a cassette is something foreign to a 13 year-old.
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That...
Great Michael Jackson Story...
azizisbored:
From Drew at HitFix.com via NYMag.com:
“This was the week that “Home Alone” had just been released on laserdisc, and so we’d been playing the movie on an endless loop at the store, over and over and over, and we were all sick of it at that point. That’s important because when Michael showed up, he had a guest with him. Macaulay Culkin.
My manager … was on the phone with a friend,...
Jackson death was twittered, texted and... →
“Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response. But nearly every passenger reached for a BlackBerry, a cell phone, whatever device was at hand.
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan... →
Facebook executives weren’t leaping at the chance to join with Google; they preferred to conquer it. “We never liked those guys,” says one former Facebook engineer. “We all had that audacity, ‘Anything Google does, we can do better.’ No one talked about MySpace or the other social networks. We just talked about Google.”
With Iran crisis, Twitter's youth is over →
For Twitter, the past year has been a series of coming-out parties as it jumped further and further into the public eye. But it wasn’t until this month’s post-election upheaval in Iran that it became really clear: Twitter, you’re not in Silicon Valley anymore.
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Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a major international crisis, one of the prime channels of communication and...
Experts say digital piracy costs Asia Pacific... →
Experts said these new media platforms [such as mobile phones, portable media players] will present challenges to content security going forward. Observers said companies can mitigate against their risks by reviewing their internal processes, such as preventing internal content from falling into the hands of digital pirates. Industry players said it’s important to regularly review security...
How Facebook Is Affecting School Reunions →
For decades, the routine has remained the same: a bunch of old classmates get together and catch up, settle (or renew) grievances and swap glory-days stories. Yet the ability to locate former classmates through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and, well, the Internet itself, has alumni organizations and other such groups wondering if the sun is setting on the traditionally organized reunion.
Are YOU a carb addict? →
“Could it really be that sweets and chocolate are as addictive as cigarettes? That’s the controversial conclusion from a study by New Zealand scientists who found that foods made largely from refined sugar and flour have the same addictive qualities as tobacco.”
When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... -... →
[…] many people start blogs with lofty aspirations — to build an audience and leave their day job, to land a book deal, or simply to share their genius with the world. Getting started is easy, since all it takes to maintain a blog is a little time and inspiration. So why do blogs have a higher failure rate than restaurants?
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search...
Can the Internet Make a More Open Government? →
The Obama presidential campaign made groundbreaking use of social networking sites and other tools to organize its supporters. President Obama has promised to use similar technology to bring citizens into government. As in so many other areas, turning promise to policy may well be more difficult than it sounded on the campaign trail.
Health insurers want you to keep smoking, Harvard... →
Health and life insurance companies in the US and abroad have nearly $4.5 billion invested in tobacco stocks, according to Harvard doctors. “It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
