Tag Archives: internet

How does crap like this survive more than a day on Facebook? Interestingly, they are using an image from from a book of homoerotic photos by noted gay lensman Michael Alago.

Hilarious. UPDATE: It appears that for the humor/satire/parody impaired out there, I must point out that the linked site makes fun of the deathers who’ve been out with their Obama=Hitler signs. Literally.

With so many of NYC’s unemployed spending their idle time in coffeehouses, hovering for hours over their laptops, shop owners are beginning to put their foot down. Amid the economic downturn, there are fewer places in New York to plug in computers. As idle workers fill coffee-shop tables — nursing a single cup, if that, and surfing the Web for …

You’re probably actually being productive at work today, as Twitter is down in a hacker attack. Twitter co founder Biz Stone: “We are currently defending against a Denial of Service attack on this otherwise happy Thursday morning. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and …

Rupert Murdoch, the largest owner of newspapers worldwide, says he plans to begin charging for access to all of their websites by next year. Stung by a collapse in advertising revenue as the recession shredded Fleet Street’s traditional business model, Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. …

The nation’s first online high school for gay youth has been launched out of the Minneapolis area, aiming to provide educational opportunities to ostracized kids around the country who have left school due to anti-gay tormenting and bullying. Other online schools exist, as do bricks-and-mortar schools that serve gay students. But the Minnesota program is the first to combine the …

Sen. Kay Hutchinson (R-TX) is running for Texas governor against incumbent Rick Perry and her campaign staff thought it was a good idea to embed thousands of invisible search term meta-tags on her campaign site, including “rick perry gay.” Oh, hilarious! The folks at Google and Yahoo didn’t like that so much and have given Hutchinson the “death penalty,” completely …

TheObamaFile.com, one of the most widely-read anti-Obama and birther movement sites, has posted a “closed for lack of support” notice. World Net Daily: “This guy is coming down, there’s nothing anybody can do about it,” declares Parker Shannon, a 70-year-old retiree who has documented alleged violations by Obama for the past two years from his home in suburban Boston. But …

$3.45/week for the entire New York Times downloaded daily to your laptop “in seconds.” That’s a lot more than the proposed $5/month to read the Times online, which we heard about last week. Still, it’s a lot less than buying the paper on the LIRR platform every day and you don’t need to be online to read it. Opinions?

My latest obsession. Start here. Or here.

Calling the film a “one day wonder,” TIME critic Richard Corliss contends that insta-reviews on Twitter are responsible for huge drop-off in attendance for Bruno, which did much less business on Saturday than on its opening day, unlike its competitors. Corliss cites box office data: Buoyed by the film’s robust $1.6 million at Thursday midnight screenings and impressive pre-buys of …

The New York Times is considering taking its site to subscription only at a cost of $5/month. Print subscribers would get online access for only $2.50/month. Times Co. is contemplating additional sources of revenue as marketers slow spending on the Internet. Ad sales at the publisher’s sites, also including about.com and boston.com, fell 8 percent and 3.5 percent in the …

Last month Microsoft challenged Google with their own search engine, the (as of yet) little used Bing. Today Google fired back with the announcement of their own operating system. Saying current operating systems were designed for a time when there was no World Wide Web, Google Inc. said Wednesday it will develop a new one based on its Chrome browser. …

The NY Times takes note of the internet’s effect on porn production as studios now mostly create three minute vignettes suitable for net viewing. The pornographic movie industry has long had only a casual interest in plot and dialogue. But moviemakers are focusing even less on narrative arcs these days. Instead, they are filming more short scenes that can be …

I went into it expecting spectacular tackiness, but I must say that overall the MJ funeral was muted, dignified, sedate, and (as much as any arena funeral could be)…classy. Yeah, surprised me too. Points off for Al Sharpton’s typically bombastic rant, but Brooke Shields in particular immediately redeemed that bit. And so the most widely watched non-sports event in the …

Today’s funeral for Michael Jackson is expected to be the most widely watched live event in internet history with as many as 1 billion viewers. Nobody knows if teh intrawebs can handle that much streaming video, but let’s see if this works. UPDATE: Live stream concluded.

A Broadway-style look at social media.

Seriously, WTF is Microsoft thinking? Do NOT press play unless you are truly ready to be grossed out. You have been warned.

Alexys Fermaintt, 30, yesterday confessed to the Queens stabbing death of Michael Pecora, 38, telling prosecutors that he acted in self-defense after Pecora attacked him with a knife in a dispute over Fermaintt’s escort fee. Fermaintt told authorities that he had met Pecora online and had agreed to have sex and spend the day with him for money. Fermaintt is …

Alexys Fermaintt, 30 (left), was arrested by Holyoke, MA police yesterday for the murder of Michael Pecora, 38, who was found stabbed to death in his Queens apartment last week after what police believe was an internet hookup gone horribly bad. The suspect was being hidden in his mother’s home, according to television reports. A NY Daily News story not …