Posted August 26th, 2007 by Warren
I could be jumping the gun here, but I cant remember the last time I channel surfed. I’m sure part of this has to do with a simple lack of time. However, I do find the time to watch some TV. In fact, I’m watching Heroes as I type this (great show by the way). Only, I’m watching it through my Xbox 360 Media Center via Amazon Unbox. All of the TV I watch is On-Demand. Our web desiger at work doesn’t have cable. He just purchased a brand new HDTV, but has no plans on buying cable. For the first time in my life, that doesn’t seem so unreasonable. I actually considered doing the same thing. I get all my news from the internet(http://www.pageflakes.com/warren.colbert) and podcasts. Between all the Movie Download services, DVD renting services like Netflix and Blockbuster, and the IPTV services on the rise (Joost), channel surfing may just be on its way out.
Posted April 15th, 2007 by Warren
Rumors about a possible $100 million acquisition by Yahoo of sports content site Rivals surfaced today. But two previous deals to acquire the company died once it was discovered that the CEO, Shannon Terry, was found to have violated the anti-touting and antifraud provisions of U.S. securities laws in 1998.
Last week after reading Necromancer by William Gibson, I was lectured on the homogenization of the personal identity due to the digitization of human life. It was proposed by my prof, Fred Turner, that the interconnecting nature of the digital lifestyle gradually strips away the individual by making one dependent on the collective we call the net. We are effectively always “plugged in.” What does this have to do with the Bad Boys over at Rivals? Nothing in the slightest, but its nice to know that amidst the downward spiral orientation of society, there are still bandits at the helm of society committing old school crimes. As long as there are bank robbers, how different can society really get? Right?
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Posted April 14th, 2007 by Warren
For every decent web 2.0 product there must be 20 useless, and I do mean useless, ones out there. This, however, looks as though Stanford has produced yet another winner. The idea of collaborative blogging has interested me for a while. Currently, I’m enrolled in the class New Media Entrepreneurship out here at The Farm which is my first formal peek into the world of journalism. My prof on the other hand is certainly no newbie. Anyways, I assume the search for a compatible blogmate is probably going to be atleast as challenging as finding a sustainable company from the Web 2.0 era.
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