Monthly Archives: January 2007
what’s online: what can money buy?
article about the FCC and the big radio companies reaching a settlement on payola. personally, i think big radios problems are beyond just payola, but i make my statement about that by not listening to commercial radio…take that you dj’s!
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell (login required)
basics: plain cellphones can overachieve, with a little help
a nice big color illustration for the circuits section of the new york times. the piece is about setting up and adding to your basic cellphone to give it the capabilities of a smartphone, minus the keyboard of course. (personally, i feel that if you need to do all the stuff this article suggests, just pony up for the smartphone, but this is coming from a person who rarely even uses the crap cellphone he has.)
nytimes.com: circuits: basics, by larry magid
your money: don’t call. don’t write. let me be.
a special double-dip of eben illustrations in today’s business section of the new york times. this one’s about how to get your name taken off a variety of direct marketing lists, phone, mail, credit, etc. mind you, while donotcall.gov works pretty well, some of the other options (particularly for spam) are not nearly as fail-safe.
nytimes.com: your money, by damon darlin (login required)
what’s online: flames flare over naked shorts
the times came up with quite the fun title for this article, basically, the ceo of overstock.com has involved himself in a flame war with journalist gary weiss and others. stories of cyber stalking, lying, ill-will, naked short selling (the hell if i know, i just draw the pictures, dan put a link to wikipedia about it) abound.
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell (login required)
cafe grumpy.
i’ve been drawing a lot of late, just not in the sketchbook. so just sitting and drawing a table and chairs felt very comforting.
what’s online: china’s ‘leninist corporatism’
will hutton’s book “the writing is on the wall,” discusses china and its economic development. where he once thought a new capitalism was being created, how now argues of the need for an embracing of western democracy.
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell (login required)
phoebe’s cafe.
i wonder if the doritos truck leaves a dehydrated cheese trail in its wake?
what’s online: copyrights and congress
with the dems controling congress, there’s a new head of the house subcommittee that oversees the internet and intellectual property, howard berman. now we get to see how the democrats tackle copyright reform particularly with regards to the internet.
nytimes.com: what’s online, by dan mitchell (login required)
