I read the post on TechCrush where Lutz Winter mentioned that the site has gotten through its alleged legal hurdles and is back online. Only it didn’t occur to me until just a moment ago that he linked Nerdflood in the post. It was a good experience after all, as quite some people expressed what […]
TechCrush a non-issue, move along, please, move along…
Hey, did you hear that there’s actually no legal action attempting to derail TechCrush before they have even had a chance to get some content out. It’s true! Apparently, Mike Arrington did NOT send out some vitrolic cease and desist letter. It was more like a nice, professional email suggesting that TechCrush might be infringing […]
Evidently we DON’T need an anti-Techcrunch
Or at least, someone seems to think we don’t: We put down our pencils here at the Crush-Room for the next days due to possible legal issues. Please stay with us, we will see how things are going to work out. Let’s hope it does all work out, because I was actually looking forward to […]
Do we need an anti-Techcrunch?
Evidently some people think so. TechCrush is a new site that takes a look at web 2.0 startups 6 months and 1 year after launch to see how the service has evolved–or devolved, as the case may be. From Stowe Boyd: Perhaps we need a dark doppelganger to TechCrunch — a TechMunch — a blog […]
Studio 60
From this point on, Caleb will have to go to bed early every Monday evening. My wife and I actually got the opportunity to watch an actual prime-time television show last night. Luckily, what we ended up catching in this miraculous boon was the premiere episode of Studio 60, the new NBC show written by […]
September is shaping up to be BUSY
Busy at work, busy at home, just no time to do much more than constantly refresh Flock to catch more Nintendo Wii announcements. But beyond that, well, much, much more. For instance, did you know that we’re celebrating Caleb’s fourth birthday this Saturday? Of course you didn’t. But we are! And we also have the […]
Using Listal as a media catalogue
A question I asked on Evil Avatar regarding a quality online game collection/wishlist database led to a comment that sparked a mass exodus of forum-goers to Listal for storing online listings of media collections and wishlists. It was at once strange and exhilarating to witness so many users immediately and unapologetically flock to a web […]
Sex offender registry with point and laugh conviction
Don’t know what gift to get for that special person in your life this Christmas? How about adding them to the sex offender registration in Ohio? It’s easy! A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be […]
Cory Doctorow on Sony’s proprietary formats
Cory Doctorow understands proprietary technology. He’s been on the front lines in the fight against strict copyright laws for several years, and he has been openly critical of corporations continuing to introduce and control their own closed standards and push them onto unwary consumers. Sony’s recent confirmation that the PS3 will not come packaged with […]
Social software: the Obi-Wan Kenobi of the web
There’s a conversation going on right now regarding social software and its usefulness and, to some extent, its perceived longevity. Ryan Carson really started the discussion by detailing why he doesn’t use any web-based social software, and why he doesn’t expect the concept to truly take off and transform into more viable public-use services. But […]