Much ado about content spam   ¶ 12/15/2009 09:04:00 AM 0 comments

  News for mobile platforms When others have been whipping the news industry for a failure to adapt, we've been saying whoa to the Rosen/Jarvis herd. The mobile platform is the exception: We are now playing catch-up in this important area.  ¶ 12/15/2009 08:41:00 AM 0 comments

  Is social media part of the problem or the solution?   ¶ 12/14/2009 08:41:00 AM 0 comments

  We have not reached bottom As much as E&P will be missed, it ain't over.

We haven't even reached the point where the cutting of editorial staffs takes its toll on the value of the products.*

*addendum: They can and will slide further.  ¶ 12/11/2009 12:57:00 PM 0 comments

  DARPA tests social networks with red balloons   ¶ 12/04/2009 12:51:00 PM 0 comments

  Comcast's NBC deal will play out in net neutrality   ¶ 12/03/2009 08:23:00 AM 0 comments

  LGF, early "warblogger", crosses the aisle   ¶ 12/01/2009 03:48:00 AM 0 comments

  More NRA scare, aims to keep production lines at full   ¶ 11/15/2009 11:02:00 PM 0 comments

  The shape of "Palinism" to come We don't feel it is particularly beneficial to the political discourse in our country. Look for a decidedly righteous lack of bipartisanship if this idiotic cabal is swept into office in the next round of elections.  ¶ 11/14/2009 05:59:00 PM 0 comments

  NYT Fashion & Style: Never heard of steampunk?   ¶ 11/11/2009 11:19:00 PM 0 comments

  MoDo on RoLo Maureen Dowd critiques the recent Fox interview with Rush Limbaugh (love fest that it was). We have a limited appetite for Dowd but found this very much on target.  ¶ 11/11/2009 07:55:00 PM 0 comments

  The Fourth Kind of Palin We'd trust Politico to give Palin more than a fair shake, so it's tough to say this was a hit job.  ¶ 11/09/2009 07:34:00 PM 0 comments

  RAM prices up This is just one example of a trend we've been seeing. Chip manufacturers had ramped up production for Vista only to have it fizzle. Windows 7 has the same high memory requirements as Vista and all indications are that it will not be a repeat of the Vista debacle.

DDR2 memory prices are averaging about 50% higher than a year ago.  ¶ 11/09/2009 11:05:00 AM 0 comments

  OpenOfficeMouse Slightly cheaper than the MSFT Office Student software.  ¶ 11/07/2009 04:57:00 PM 0 comments

  Bogus Twitter arrest after G20 protest   ¶ 10/20/2009 07:58:00 AM 0 comments

  Memo to Media Matters: Fox News neither red nor blue, it's yellow We have been changing our view of Fox News. While acknowledging some obvious coincidence of interests, Fox News strategy is plainly driven to increase viewers rather than towards any long term interests of the Republican party.

This type of yellow, mercantile journalism is ultimately good for neither the country nor journalism.  ¶ 10/13/2009 01:32:00 PM 0 comments

  Ooh, ooh: Turnip tool   ¶ 10/12/2009 05:05:00 PM 0 comments

  BSOD with Microsoft Security Essentials We had previously installed the new security suite on WinXP machines and this was an attempt to use it on our Vista powered primary machine. Upon installation the computer installed updates for Silverlight and MSFT Visual C++ with the BSOD result on restart. It took several restarts before the computer was able to check for a solution online. At this time it appears the problem has cleared itself.

We found the events but no usable information in the system logs.

Update: Maybe not over yet. Vista indicated there was a problem with Flash Player (probably not a coincidence this came with the Silverlight update) which we attempted to solve by uninstalling the player and reinstalling it. Then there was a problem caused by sticking the Readyboost flash drive back in the computer. It has been in the computer for some time with no problems. However, there were files on the disk that made it bootable so we removed them. We are still wading through this.

One day later: It appears this problem has been cleared.  ¶ 10/10/2009 08:51:00 AM 0 comments