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CBS has opened their own version of citizen journalism site. The user generated news site, CBSeyemobile.com also offers mobile applications that make it easier for citizens like you and me to submit photos and videos. With pictures of cheerleaders and videos of usually half-naked “thezomgblog” commenting on politics it is clear that someone is asleep [...]
Thu, October 2 2008 » www » Comments Off
Once the only game in town, domain registrar Network Solutions has stooped to a new low. Many years ago the company started offering hosting packages as well as domain registration. It seems that if you hosted with them and had a subdomain (like blog.tombrennan.org) that you haven’t updated in a while something interesting will happen. [...]
Sat, April 12 2008 » www » Comments Off
Comcast has silently changed it’s terms of service to clarify the cable giants policies on traffic management. This move comes on the heels of months of debate and third-party proof that Comcast was throttling back bandwidth on some subscribers using BitTorrent. Now according to Section III of the new terms “uses reasonable network management practices [...]
Fri, February 8 2008 » tech, www » Comments Off
By going over a long thread on Apple.com’s support forums users having slow connection speeds with the iTunes Music Store have discovered that they all live in the same general area and all have Time Warner’s Roadrunner broadband service. According to the forums the problems started about January 31st with slow downloads of music and [...]
Mon, February 4 2008 » tech, www » Comments Off
Like Digg but can never get on the the front page? Try AddPile.com Presidential Primaries are so 20th century. Let’s spend a few movements at take a look at who’s the most popular Democratic Candidate online: According to Alexis.com, which tracks and ranks website traffic BarackObama.com is a clear winner ranking 9,008 with HillaryClinton.com taking [...]
Sun, January 27 2008 » www » Comments Off