Posted on January 31, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Swedish prosecutors have charged the four administrators of the popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay with copyright infringement. However, site registration is still available .
Pirate Bay has received many legal threats recently after dealing with an ongoing investigation since ‘06 in regards to the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which prohibits dissemination [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Helium, a large online writing community specializing in fiction, blogs, and any other sort of thing making words weary, is hosting its first “Rewardathon.”Happening until April 14 (you’ve got 76 days), you can write something on their site–If you get a star on your published work after being rated by other Helium users, [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
When the clock struck midnight Dec. 31, 2007, America had finally reached the predictably reputable year of enlightenment: 2008. Wipe those red-white-and blues away.
The election this year is already its starry highlight–preparing for it–refreshing results on your computer for “recounts” into the wee hours–complaining/cheering, or being sexist/racist over the winner in some [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Web page making can be fun. Besides busting out your coke-bottle glasses and your metal detector, multi-tasking playing your Wii and WOW, there is an extra nerdy thing you can do. Build a widget.
Widgets, for the uninformed, misinformed, or deformed, are baby chunks of Web code that can be customized to [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Qtrax Beta is finally available for download. Claiming to be the first peer-2-peer free music downloading program, all it takes is a download and the support of site advertisers to keep it goin’ strong.
Mac users: queue it up. March 18 is a short month and half away to freedom.
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
There are a few reasons why I might be making this post.
I could want to stalk you.
I could want you to stalk me.
I could want us to be friends…in a creepy non-traditional fashion.
Google will own the world one day, and I support it for my own safety.
Social networking started as a fun little [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
When it comes to visual media, I can justify favoring the underdog.
Sites that you DON’T tube and should:
VodPod.
VodPod collects thousands of videos from multiple servers, and has built-in engineering to display them on WordPress blogs.
SuTree.
Maybe you want to learn how to passionately kiss, or learn about computer algorithms. You can drop out of [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Last.fm, a social network fueled by the never-ending circle of music-life, has cast forth the shackles welded in the name of copyright violations. In collaboration with multiple music labels, Last.fm administrators have declared to musicians that royalties shall be rewarded in exchange for the hosting of full-length releases of production to Last.fm [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
Among the words Emmy, Grammy, and Crunchie, there is not a word that does not belong.
The Crunchies Awards, a fledgling accolade system that commenced this year, gears itself to reward those who have excelled in technological innovation. Put on by the four leading technology blogs (Giga Omni Media, Read Write/Web, VentureBeat and [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2008 by Chelsey Delaney
By Chelsey Delaney
10 Things I hate about sudden death and blogs:
1. Story variations
2. Story variations
3. Story variations
4. Story variations … etcetera.
So far, the New York Times hosts the most credible blog (and broke the story) that has come to claim it took place in Mary-Kate Olsen’s apartment in SoHo. TMZ.com, an AOL page, [...]
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