The other day I stumbled across a YouTube video of pioneering journalists/programmer Adrian Holovaty playing the MacGyver theme song on guitar. (The video is on the YouTube homepage and has been viewed 750,000+ times). Seeing the video prompted me to head over to his site for the first time in awhile....
Continue ReadingI've been reading this morning (via CNET and TechCrunch) that Yahoo! Photos, one of the most widely used photo sharing/storage websites is shutting down in favor of its sister site, Flickr. Yahoo! purchased Flickr in 2005, and since then, Flickr has been gaining massive popularity. Flickr's tagging and community features are unique services that users can't find on any other site. ...
Continue ReadingI think this is the big question raised by the whole Obama MySpace mess. Let us know what you think by voting in the poll below and by leaving your thoughts in the comments.
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Mark Glaser over at MediaShift had an interesting post yesterday where he published an interview with "Mr. Magazine", magazine journalism expert Samir Husni. The interview really caught my attention because Mr. Magazine seems to be advocating the same strategies that we have been writing about here on TBR. The interview is definitely worth reading,...
Continue ReadingWay back in February, I wrote a speculative post about technologies I thought might impact the 2008 elections. One of the technologies I mentioned was Twitter. The Hotline (and David All) noted last week that House GOP leader John Boehner is twitterring (sorry). Today, I stumbled across the recently created profiles of House Whip Eric Cantor and the National Republican Congressional Committee (first committee on Twitter I think)....
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