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Quick Things Before I Go

Posted in Archives, Editorial, Featured, Internet Mish-Mash, Notes from MP, Other, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s my birthday, so I’ll be making the voyage upstate for the weekend to be with family and likely not spend much time blogging/twittering.

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Looking Back on the Twittering Assholes and their SXSW Raid of Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Lacy: Maybe the older generation’s age plays a factor?

Posted in Archives, Culture, Editorial, Entertainment, Featured, Humor, Internet Mish-Mash, Manifesto, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, Other, Politics, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Hopefully all of the readers of this blog are now well aware of the audience-led IRL raid of the keynote interview Sarah Lacy conducted with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at SXSW.
Let’s take a look back, now that we’ve had time to digest.
Discussed: Sexism. Would the audience have been as cruel to Ms. Lacy [...]

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Neat Web 2.0 stuff: I want to interview the co-founders of Bragster

Posted in Culture, Editorial, Entertainment, Featured, Internet Mish-Mash, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, Other, Technology, api, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Bragster.com, of course.
…For an audio podcast.
I’ve had the opportunity to work with them quite a bit over the past few months, and I’d like to get Bertrand, Wim, or Brittney on the phone to talk about the site’s new features and direction.
Wim, in this blog post, talks about their new funding. I can’t imagine [...]

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Pi Day

Posted in Culture, History, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you haven’t heard yet, you’re obviously not the international web geek that you think yourself to be. It’s a Holiday, and not just any holiday, but Pi Day!

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Hulu Launches Tomorrow

Posted in Editorial, Entertainment, Featured, Internet Mish-Mash, Movies, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, Other, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hulu will launch publically tomorrow, and only then will we (those of us who weren’t invited to private beta) find out what all the fuss is about.
So now we know the answer of Youtube 2.0.
What do you think the third generation will bring?
I have my suspicions.

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Neat Web 2.0: Youlicit

Posted in Culture, Internet Mish-Mash, Neat Stuff, News, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It’s part three of our infinity part series of Neat Web 2.0 Stuff!

Youlicit
Google, watch your back. Ok, that is not true (yet)… but anyway, there is a possible alternative to stumbling. Today’s neat web app, Youlicit (not even to beta phase), isn’t really a search engine, per say- as much as a new web discovery [...]

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Dave Winer On Startups And Watching Every Penny

Posted in Archives, Culture, Editorial, Featured, History, Internet Mish-Mash, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, Politics, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »

I was pleased to find a new blog on Scripting News today that was not Obama-centric, and Dave really hit the ball out of the park on this blog post.
His major point: It’s not penny pinching that makes startups win, you dingus. It’s having a sexy product that people pine over (no [...]

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Conncect the Dots

Posted in Archives, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Internet Mish-Mash, News, Notes from MP, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »

This Week,
Rihanna Bans Umbrella’s.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon plans to appoint Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide as his special representative to Afghanistan.
Mythbusters T.V. Show tests if Buzz really walked on the moon.
Julie Appleby reports on the side effects of drug company advertisements on T.V.
Prosecutors argue that there are no grounds for delaying the forced [...]

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What Would Che Blog?

Posted in Culture, Editorial, History, Humor, Manifesto, News, Politics, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »

The NY-Times reported yesterday on the staggering limitations to internet access and free information in Cuba. Apparently though there is a growing underground movement of “Cyber-Rebels” working to share information through flash drives, illegal hookups, and other media.
Also recently, The Times reported on Steve Marshall, a European travel agent who books trips to [...]

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Web Applications: The Internet’s Top Nine Biggest Losers

Posted in Archives, Culture, Editorial, Entertainment, Featured, Humor, Internet Mish-Mash, Neat Stuff, News, Notes from MP, Other, Politics, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

With all the news and gossip circulating today regarding politics and fun things on the internet, I think it’s time we take a deep breath and focus on what truly makes up the internet:

Millions and millions of dollars of capital thrown at some of the most ridiculously dumb web products that could ever be [...]

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