Archive for the “Technology” category
You are not Facebook’s customer, you are what Facebook is selling
by Pete on May 29, 2010
Subbing for Matt Yglesias, Dara Lind is a relative late-comer to the recent bandwagon of Facebook privacy critics. Unlike most of the “Facebook is EVIL!!!” crowd, Lind takes the somewhat novel approach that it is Mark Zuckerberg’s class and gender (…)
Ed Begley wants his computer back
by Pete on September 20, 2009
This morning’s New York Times features a story about the ever-increasing power consumption needs of all the various electronic gear and gadgetry found in the contemporary U.S. household. The story also discusses the challenges facing efforts to mandate efficiency standards (…)
Howard Stern + the Internets = PROFIT (?)
by Pete on August 27, 2009
Jeff Jarvis expands on speculation from the NY Daily News’s David Hinckley that Howard Stern could leave Sirius and go independent via the Internet: Indeed, he could. Technology makes it possible: We could listen to him – and watch him (…)