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Live chat is fun… if there’s a live event on worth chatting about

I’m having a ball right now, watching the vice presidential debate on MSNBC.com while also messing around with Election 2008, Twitter’s election site.

I’m reminded that if there’s a live event on with massive interest — which goes without saying for Palin v. Biden — it can be a lot of fun to dive in […]

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

You too can (sort of) interview Sarah Palin

I can’t get enough of Sarah Palin coverage. It’s a mix of high entertainment and high terror — that’s the best way I can describe it.
So in an effort to stave off thinking about the state of the economy, I’m delighted to bring you Interview Sarah Palin, where you too can interview the (shiver) […]

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

The ‘08 election gets a Twitter

I’ll admit it: I’ve been absolutely binging on 2008 election news the last few months, as anyone following my Twitter feed will be able to attest to.
And speaking of Twitter, Fred Wilson of A VC alerted me to a nifty new Twitter presence simply called Election 2008, located on your interwebs dials at election.twitter.com. […]

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Great, quick, digestible slide show about FriendFeed

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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

A good rule of thumb: bring the show back “after these words from our sponsor”

It makes sense to me that if there’s a good and worthy video to watch online, that it’s fair to sit through a video ad or two. Some people balk at this notion, but I’m fine with it.
This has been on my mind over the last few weeks as there’s been a number of […]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Dwigger: one of the most interesting social media experiments of the year

Obvious statement: there’s a lot of information and conversations floating around the internets. Not-so-easy questions to answer: what do we do with it, how do we harness it, and how do we make sense of it?
An area of social media that I think about a lot these days is the prospect of pulling data […]

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Google’s tentacles, Microsoft’s nothingness, Twitter’s geek borderlands, Cuil’s illing

The following are some stories that have piqued my cultist interests over the last day or two…
* Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Comedy launches
Back in June, I speculated that the future of content may come in the form of a Cavalcade. It’ll likely take some time to see how the unique partnership with […]

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Mashable redesigns (and it’s good!)

I’ve been, er, a little bit critical of the design of two of the largest tech blogs out there over the last few months. First I teed off on Mashable for its overuse of ads (Mashable has a lot of ads). Then I went the other way on TechCrunch late last month, singling out its […]

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The NFL is taking the Internet seriously

Something I think about a lot and mention here fairly often is that people want what they want when they want it. And technology is making that possible more often and in more ways than ever before.
To quote myself from a recent piece:
Technology is revolutionizing the ways in which content can be distributed […]

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Hurricane Gustav, political obsessions, and Hulu surfing

Spent the long weekend at the beach, a novelty for me even though I live just outside of Los Angeles. Of course, I still managed a goodly amount of online media cultery, though I did make a valiant attempt to stay semi-unplugged.
Hurricane Gustav was a huge story, of course, and thankfully it’s now finally […]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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