Archive for the 'internet' Category
Birds of Britain: A video spoof
1 Comment Published by paul June 30th, 2009 in Television, bird watching, internet, nature, scienceHere’s an amusing spoof of a 1970s birds documentary, taken from the “Look Around You” series, a parody of the old British school science programs.
(Thanks to the Birdchick blog for pointing this one out.)
Surfing Census to Study Surfing Habits
0 Comments Published by paul February 28th, 2009 in internet, news, recreation, sportsThe San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported that Surf-first.org was launched by “Surfing Magazine journalist Matt Walker in association with the Surfrider Foundation” in order to get a scientific and all-encompassing picture of “who surfers are; where they come from; what they do for work; how, when and where they surf; and where they spend their [...]
NASA and Google Provide a look at Mars in 3D
1 Comment Published by paul February 11th, 2009 in astronomy, internet, science, technologyGoogle brought us online search that has yet to be matched and Google Earth, a wicked cool bit of software that lets us view almost any part of Planet Earth. The software is so accurate and detailed that governments and security agencies worldwide are extremely uncomfortable.
NASA has brought us, well, space! Moon missions; the space [...]
Random Friday Video: The Birth of Electronic News
0 Comments Published by paul January 30th, 2009 in History, internet, news, technologyThink back to what you were doing in 1981, then imagine getting news via your home computer—if you had one.
This video of a 1981 KRON report predicts the future of news reporting on the future of the Internet.
And the best part? An S.F. Examiner editor mentions how they’re not in it to make money, when [...]
Random Friday video: Harry Potter finger puppets
0 Comments Published by paul June 5th, 2008 in internet, recreationA rhythmic ticking noise initiates a finger puppet dance featuring the gang from Hogwarts–with a bit of a surprise ending.
Random Friday video: Wiener poopies and Jesus-napping
1 Comment Published by paul May 9th, 2008 in internet, news, recreationThis news item from ABC affiliate Channel 13 News is just too odd to explain. Dachshund poop, Jesus statuette-napping and feuding neighbors… You just have to watch it to believe it.
Using related links and content as you write: Check out Zemanta and 3DWriter
1 Comment Published by paul April 3rd, 2008 in Blogging, IT, Writing, internetA week ago, European startup Zemanta launched in Alpha with a product for blogs to suggest links, pictures and other related content and tags while you write blog posts. It uses a semantic analysis engine that serves up the relevant information in your Internet browser as you write.
According to TechCrunch, this type of application only [...]
Helium.com videos educate members and publishing partners
0 Comments Published by paul March 10th, 2008 in Online community, Online marketing, Writing, internetI’m excited to announce (somewhat belatedly) that Helium.com, the Internet company I work for, has started using multimedia videos to inform and instruct members, visitors and potential clients.
Until about a month ago, we’ve been relying solely on written copy in our User Guide, community forums and other scattered areas on the website. Typically—and as [...]
Random Friday video: ‘We are the World’ karaoke
0 Comments Published by paul March 7th, 2008 in Television, internet, recreationEverybody knows that karaoke is huge in Japan. Check out this video of a karaoke contest show where a group mimics American pop stars in the famous “We are the world” video. Some are even in black-face! I’m guessing folks across the Pacific haven’t heard about being politically correct or they just don’t care.
But it [...]
WordPress may go social
0 Comments Published by paul March 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Online community, internet, newsTechCrunch blogs that Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg may look towards developing social networking tools for its famous blog software.
The news is that Matt hired Andy Peatling, “the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top of WordPress. BuddyPress will now become an official WordPress project.”
As many of our readers know, we [...]

