What would we do without Dick Blumenthal? Just when we thought we’d gotten rid of him — banished from Hartford and consigned to the polished halls of the U.S. Capitol — Blumenthal reminds us why his camera-mugging tenure as the state’s attorney general was so profoundly irritating. In the state of Connecticut, where they...
Update: Colin McEnroe’s take on blogs: “They will have fewer readers. But the readers will be highly committed.” * * * * * A NYT article today suggests that it is, at least among younger audiences. And surely that’s not good news for the future of this little craft: According to the NYT, “The...
Update: I just learned that an NBC production assistant was fired for posting this video to YouTube. * * * * * * This is pretty amusing. Today Show hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel trying to figure out what cyberspace is back in January 1994. “What is the Internet anyway?” he asks. As...
Update 6 a.m. Tuesday: CNN is reporting that Assange has been arrested in London on sex crimes charges. But leave it to SNL to try anyway. I’ve held off commenting on the WikiLeaks scandal, mostly because it’s so complex that I’m not sure I could do it justice with the little time I have...
Great article in Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller today. By now, you’ve probably heard that the federal government is considering introducing technology into new cars that would disable cell phones when used in a running automobile? Now, while the increase in road deaths caused by mindless cell phone drivers is indeed troubling, what do you...
The headline on the WMUR-TV website sounded clear enough: “Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts.” What is left unexplained is whether the victims in Nashua, N.H., had lax security settings on Facebook or whether the thieves were able to hack into their accounts to view the “I’m-not-home” status updates or take a...
A tweet from Iranian President @M_Ahmadinejad:I like to retaliate by burning a book that you Americans hold dear, but the only book you care about is Facebook.
It has come to my attention that Google Earth — the now ubiquitous tool for mapping and geographic information — is being used in ways that are troublesome to civil liberties advocates. Facing a fiscal crisis so profound that even ours pales in comparison, the nation of Greece, where cheating on taxes is the...
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