Posts on ‘December 8th, 2008’

Via Mashable

December 5, 2008 - 8:42 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder 22 Comments

Amidst all the talk about data portability and net identity, all that end users want to know is: how can I use this, and is it any good? Now both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are [...]

Via Ars Technica
By Julian Sanchez
| Published: December 05, 2008 - 10:01AM CT

Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs
any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment
rights were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit
of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining [...]

Via Mashable

December 6, 2008 - 11:16 pm PDT - by Sean P. Aune

While 2008 has turned out to be quite an eventful year in tech, there were 20 key events that stood out and got people talking for days if not weeks after the moment had passed.
From the rise of [...]

Via Gerry McGovern
Of all the things that make the Web different from print, linking is the most important.
Are we tool-making animals or are we animals made by tools? It’s an old question. How much did the quill shape our minds and worlds? We invented the printing press which then invented a new society, a new [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Nate Anderson | Published: December 07, 2008 - 03:10PM CT

If you think it’s tough to be a blogger because your Google AdWords revenue has been in the toilet lately, the Committee to Protect Journalists wants to remind you that Internet journalist—including bloggers—can and do suffer much more around the world. According to [...]

Via the New York Times
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: December 7, 2008
CNN says it wants newspaper feedback as it creates a news wire service to compete with The Associated Press and other services. At a meeting last week, one newspaper staff member offered his advice — and shared the framework of CNN’s plans — in real time [...]

Via The New York Times
In a down economy, that might be an affordable luxury to a teenager or twentysomething hanging out in a virtual world like Gaia Online, which this week will start selling a range of digital accessories depicting the rock legend’s style, including blue suede shoes, a white-rhinestone jumpsuit ($4) and a pompadour [...]