Category: culture

  • GeoCities – May You Rest In Peace – We Hardly Knew Ye

    Regardless of their garish, impossibly difficult to navigate nature, GeoCities pages still had value in the culture in that people who didn’t really want or necessarily care about learning coding, could still share their little piece of the world with the rest of us. And many of this site bely a great amount of time…

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  • Amazing Things From This Year’s NAB Show

    Topics at NAB 2009 ranged from when the Web Will Kill TV to How To Blog In 140 Characters to Alternative Reality Gaming, Second Chances in Second Life and the nature of Web 3.0. Oh and YouTube 3D.

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  • If 2009 Is Watershed Year for 3D Cinema, 2010 Will Be Same for 3DTV

    Chris Chinnock, President of consultation and market research firm Insight Media predicted that 2010 will be a “watershed year for 3DTV.”

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  • Web 3.0 Train Now Boarding, Don’t Be Late

    Just in case you are still wondering whether you should check out this whole “Social Networking Thing” – too late. It’s way tired. The tides are tiring of Facebook. MySpace has been declared dead. We are now halfway through the Web 2.5 paradigm; there are already so many books at Amazon.com about how to conduct…

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  • The Guild is the Next Generation’s Answer to Mary Tyler Moore

    Felicia Day’s eight-minute webisodic-turned-cultural-phenomenon The Guild revolves around the character Codex, a single woman in her late-twenties, early thirties who is not widowed or divorced or seeking a man to support her, but who holds a position of great importance in her online guild – that of the Healer. The show can similarly assert itself…

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  • President Obama Pushes Through Bill to Delay Digital TV Switch

    After some stonewalling from the Republicans in Senate, President Obama managed to push through and sign a bill delaying the transition from analog to digital signals for television broadcast in the United States in order to give people more time to prepare for the irrevocable transition.

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