technology

Satellite Radio, Rich Content and the Threat of Wi-Fi/Wi-Max

What is it about Satellite radio that has caused over x subscribers to sign up for Sirius over the past x months? Is it the superior technology? I’ve seen some of the installations of the portable satellite tuners and heard the quality of the streams that are being beemed to its subscribers. The new eye… Continue reading Satellite Radio, Rich Content and the Threat of Wi-Fi/Wi-Max

Advertising For Peanuts

Just a quick post to advertise for Advertise For Peanuts. This site features creative advertising spots of a viral nature. This type of copy is the future of advertising as the 60 second commercial aimed at broadcasting gets fast-forwarded or deleted in the increasingly on-demand nature of content consumption. Forcing users to watch commercials, i.e.… Continue reading Advertising For Peanuts

The Convergence of Web Applications and an Open Source Lifestyle

Open Source has grown beyond the simplicity of programming and is now being applied to all components of life. Wikipedia’s content is open source. Flickr’s photos while not all released under GPL are on public display and effectively an open source collection. The peace rally I attended yesterday took funding directly from the crowd and… Continue reading The Convergence of Web Applications and an Open Source Lifestyle

The Underwhelming 2006 Portland Car Show

I checked out the 2006 Portland Car Show today with a friend and wow, how totally unimpressive. It was like a huge car lot you pay $10 to get into. No Ferraris! The best they could do was an underwhelming Bentley. I wasn’t even enticed to take pictures. I do have some rather funny videos… Continue reading The Underwhelming 2006 Portland Car Show

Viral Reactionary Content Creation and Personal Equity – Web User's Rights in Web 2.0

There has been nothing short of an uproar regarding the recent changes to Tribe.net’s design and interface. Longtime users of the site began viral reactionary content creation which is making effective use of community building to voice discord with the direction of a website. The changes were rolled out on January 18th and the response… Continue reading Viral Reactionary Content Creation and Personal Equity – Web User's Rights in Web 2.0

Sirius Satellite Radio Lacks Quality Internet Listener Experience

An overview of the poor internet listening experience provided by Sirius Satellite Radio, and reasoning as to why this might be the case.

The Spark That Creates Life

I was cruising The Drudge Report for some brain relief after five hours of focus and came upon this article on creating synthetic life forms. The article is about a scientist named Craig Venter who is trying to create life from scratch. Craig’s credentials are pretty good. Previously he helped sequence the first privately-held map… Continue reading The Spark That Creates Life

Google Search Packaged for Sale

Just a quick note to point out that Google is not your aunt May who bakes you muffins and tucks you in when you’re sick. While it has earned the mass belief that it is the best way to find information, it has also somehow aquired the golden halo that mac users feel towards Apple’s… Continue reading Google Search Packaged for Sale

Why My Sony Walkman D-NE320 is Better than your iPod Could Ever Be

I have a long-standing rant against Apple’s iPod and iTunes system of consumer enslavement, and have managed to stay well away from their products. I’m afraid things have not gone as well for my friends. I’ve wanted to explain my hatred for the iPod in so many words for some time and my recent purchase… Continue reading Why My Sony Walkman D-NE320 is Better than your iPod Could Ever Be

Experiments in Drupal SEO, Modules and Tweaking

In the past I have been an amature SEO guy at best, but this is all going to change. I have been attempting to cement my SEO abilities by making the popular open-source content managment system, Drupal, bend unto my will.