The Pacer, the online student newspaper at the University of Tennessee, Martin: Top five “sweet” websites. Five websites that will enahnce your experience on the Internet. 1. LivePlasma, a music discovery site 2. Ourmedia, free storage and bandwidth for your digital media 3. YouSendIt, prevent attachments from bouncing (up to 1GB) 4. Gmail, Google’s email […]
Interviewing Elisabeth Shue
I’ve been a huge fan of actress Elisabeth Shue for the past 20 years, so it was a big personal thrill to speak with her at length Friday night during the special screening of her director-husband’s film "Teach" at a Creative Commons event in San Francisco. We chatted about the third child she’s expecting (at […]
TechCrunch party
It’s been a crazy weekend. One of the highlights came Friday night when I was invited to Michael (TechCrunch) Arrington’s place for one of his vaunted tech gatherings. This one was a book release party for Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of “Naked Conversations,” about how businesses can better understand the blog world. A […]
Liberty index
“Hammer of Truth” Stephen Gordon has posted a scorecard of the entire House of Representatives, scoring how congressmen fall on a Libertarian index. Given that Libertarians have traditionally voted Republican, you’d expect Republicans to dominate the top slots, right? But Republicans take only 1 of the top 20 slots in the Liberty index. In fact, […]
Mainstream media vs. blogs: A MSM rebound?
Above is the latest chart from Technorati, taken from David Sifry’s semi-annual State of the Blogosphere report released this week, charting the number of inbound links to mainstream news sites vs. top blogs. Fewer blogs there than in past comparisons. From Saturday’s NY Times: “The State of the Blogosphere” presented at sifry.com this week by […]