Monthly Archives: November, 2008

The new standard YouTube video player is now widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio). YouTube increased the width of their site to accomodate the new player size, but now old videos will play with black bars on the left and right side of the player. But the…

Are you looking to build relationships with individuals in government or government-related industries (like contractors, academia, etc)? Or, just play virtual voyeur? Well then look no further than the GovTwit directory. Of course, just because somebody’s name is attached (like House Minority Leader John Boehner)…

Blog software firm Six Apart is offering its own “bailout” program to journalists hit (or threatened) by newsroom downsizing: Hello, recently-laid-off or fearful-of-layoffs journalist! We’re Six Apart (you know us as the nice folks who make Movable Type or TypePad, which maybe you used for…

Motrin launched an ad campaign targeting baby-sling wearing moms to coincide with International Baby-Wearing Week. It was a tongue-in-cheek campaign with commercials and print ads targeting that “new baby” and “mommy” target audiences. Over the weekend the campaign was scrutinized, boycotted and vilified thanks to…

…Give them all free pizza!! Gizmodo says: If Papa John’s thinks that they can buy our Facebook friendship by offering us a free medium pizza with any online order…they’re completely right. You don’t win friends with salad, but you do with free pizza, apparently. Since…

It has been reported today that Barack Obama will begin recording a series of weekly Internet videos to, and for, the American people. The 21st Century version of Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats, it’s the administration-to-be’s ongoing effort to use technology to communicate its messages to its…

A couple of weeks ago, I was at home with a fever, and while my fingers were trying to fall off I was searching Google for “flu symptoms.” I was one of the many Americans who tend to visit Google before they go to a…

Well, that didn’t take long. President-Elect Barack Obama got a jump-start on fulfilling the promises made during his campaign — specifically, to employ technologies, including blogs, wikis and social networking tools, to modernize public communication and information-sharing to improve government decision-making with yesterday’s launch of…

Not even social media is safe from the rumblings of a wounded economy. Social networking powerhouse LinkedIn, the premiere professional networking site, has decided to preemptively layoff 10% of its workforce. The company does not seem to be in financial trouble; in fact it just…

I was cleaning out the basement last week and found a giant plastic tub full of newspapers I’ve collected over the years. With 150 pt. headlines screaming “Twin Towers Terror,” “Space Shuttle Columbia Tragedy,” and “War With Iraq Imminent,” it’s a blast to page through…