Quoted: At a time when we're facing the first coup d’état in American history with King Henry effectively overthrowing our elected leaders, it's refreshing to see that our creativity is still strong. A friend forwarded a link to BuyMyShitPile.com, a site that explains the Paulson administration's (as George Will referred to it) proposal better than most journalists

Quoted: more about "Hulu - Love is All Around: The Mary T...", posted with vodpod If I could award an Emmy for outstanding performance in television, I'd have a clear winner: Hulu. The video site from NBC and Fox is my leading choice for product of the year. Hulu allows users to stream television shows from NBC, Fox, Comedy Central and select other networks.

Quoted: An ad from my Facebook profile page. Someone should teach the advertiser about capitalization. At least Facebook hasn't shown me an ad for a gay dating site in a while. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Posted in advertising, facebook, social networking

Quoted: The App Store is one of the key strengths of the iPhone. You can easily find, purchase and install applications that increase the utility of the iPhone. Steve Jobs claims that more than 100 million downloads have occurred in the short time that the App Store has been around. I'd bet that if you were to take all of the other smartphones and add up every

Quoted: Larry Page and Sergey Brin Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans puts Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at #13 and #14 with a net worth of $15.9 billion for Brin and $15.8 billion for Page. That's a bit less than the $20 billion I estimated for the U.S. newspaper industry as whole. But I was being generous and not subtracting out non-newspaper

Quoted: I've had the 3G iPhone for a couple of months now. During that time I've had the same complaints that most others have had: virtually nonexistent 3G coverage, anemic battery life and frequent crashes. But there are also details of the UI that have bothered me; some big, some small. This is the first in a series of posts about iPhone pet peeves. Pet

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Quoted: After telemarketers, the most excruciating phone experience is dealing with interactive voice response systems. That's what the industry calls those things that I call phone mazes and most people just call damned annoying. Unlike telemarketers, IVRs are hard to avoid. Enter Fonolo, which won top prize at Om Malik's Mobilize 08 conference. Fonolo "crawls"

Quoted: A friend asked me today "Does one Bear Stearns bailout equal the entire newspaper industry?" I decided to find out. Although there isn't a clear answer, I was surprised by how small the newspaper industry is. Here are the market caps for publicly traded newspaper companies: CompanyMarket cap (millions)Washington Post Co.$5,450Gannett3,640New York Times1,960Belo627Scripps388McClatchy283Media