Blockbuster/Circuit City: OK, I don't get it either

Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:41 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

Glad to see someone else doesn't get it, either. Ailing Blockbuster has made a hostile bid for equally unhealthy Circuit City. Two terrible tastes that taste terrible together.

business, blockbuster, circuit-city, wtf

Mr. T Brought Boy Out of Coma

Seeded on Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:02 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Kid responds only to Mr. T's name while in coma, and Mr. T comes by when he's in town. Bingo! Kid wakes up. "This was my supernatural moment," he says.

entertainment, odd, wtf

"If the news is that important, it will find me."

Seeded on Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:56 PM EDT (Matthew Ingram)

Matthew Ingram points out how push-delivery of media and social/viral news has affected the way youth in particular get their information on current events. The way that most people are dealing with the glut of information out there is, unsurprisingly, by trusting their friends.

media, technology, youth, tech, news, culture, meta, social-network, news-delivery

Pirillo wants to create the Ubuntu of Content Management

Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:35 AM EDT

Chris Pirillo, "Call for Help" guy and all around poster-boy for geekiness, is actually onto something much bigger and much cooler than you'd guess by his relatively unhip track record.

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technology, tech, internet, web, cms, ubuntu, content-management, pirillo, canonical, friendfeed

MetaCarta: Mapping the news

Seeded on Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:33 AM EDT (CNET News.com)

A massive, commercial news-Google Maps mashup, indexing a truckload of sources. It's got a pretty slick interface, too.

google, technology, ap, news, maps, gis, metacarta

On avoiding pretentiousness

Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:25 AM EDT

Lately I've spent a lot of time thinking about whether I'm hitting that point where the dude who walks the road less traveled becomes the pretentious snob. I like to think of this as the Hermann Hesse Boundary.

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entertainment, music, pretentious