Tag: Digital
How to Recycle Your Television
" Florida Department of Environmental Protection has launched an interactive web-based map which enables citizens to find out where to recycle electronics. With the digital conversion just months away, many unwanted analog televisions will need to be recycled as new digital...
Japan to start counting crow`s feet
Before you will be able to get any cigarettes out of the vending machines in Japan, you better make sure you have plenty of wrinkles, crow`s feet, and skin sags so that the machine can tell if you are old enough to...
I'll Give You $5.5 Million for the Future of News
The Knight Foundation has announced its selection of 16 winning projects as part of the Knight News Challenge, an annual contest that funds projects "to transform community news using digital technology". Not...
ABC News to Launch On-Campus Bureaus
This could either be the best move ABC News ever makes or, just as likely, the worst. What do college kids know about real journalism? Oh wait, they all have news blogs that are just as popular as mainstream news...
Super Duper Latino Vote is No One’s Big Enchilada
"Asked on Super Duper Tuesday to choose between a black candidate and a white candidate, Latinos chose both — and neither.“The candidates need to understand where Latinos stand,” says Smithe Celestrin, 31, standing outside Public School 24 in Brooklyn’s diverse...
Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Free Album
In recognition of his fans' support of Nine Inch Nails -- and their recent payment-optional release Ghosts -- Trent Reznor is giving another new NIN album away totally free starting today. Get your industrial ambient...
RIAA: Vinyl Is Back!
Frank Smith is always worth reading. Today he picked up an interesting tidbit on the state of the music business."In the U.S. shipments of CDs were down 17.5 percent in 2007, while digital formats (such as...
Twitter and the Zeitgeist
Twitter, like Facebook, is all about strength (or wisdom) in numbers. On its own, the microblogging application is simply a technological tool, but if it is adopted en masse, on a Facebook-scale, it could yet provide...
Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30
"Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually...
McLuhan at Vidfest 2008
If you are in Vancouver this month you should get to Vidfest. The festival's line-up includes some great people including Wired's Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson as well as John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the...
U.S. Border Agents Can Search Laptops Without Cau...
This federal appeals court ruling will have significant implications for the millions of people who travel to and from the United States with their laptops, mobile phones, and digital cameras, assuming that the...
NBC Universal To Create Programs Around Products
This kind of product placement is a long way from having a strategically-placed can of Coke on a kitchen table in a sitcom.This is the kind of product placement where the can of Coke is the star of its own sitcom....
Lonelygirl15 Creators Launch 'Social Entertainmen...
After successfully pushing the online entertainment envelope with Lonelygirl15 and the Bebo-branded KateModern, I'm very curious to see what new ideas will emerge from the folks at Eqal.They've got a great...
Miami gets all lathered up
Sony has made another advert in downtown Miami - this time with foam, after their successful 'Balls', 'Paint' and 'Play-Doh' adverts."The new advert, "Foam City", promotes Sony's Handycam, Cyber-shot and α, its new...
Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Seems That Flickr users are revolting against Yahoo!'s move to add video capabilities to Flickr. The line between photos and video is clear and Yahoo! misread the market.
