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Would You Start Paying For News Online After Getting It Free?
On The Daily Show the other night, Jon Stewart chatted with Walter Isaacson of Time Magazine about how to save print newspapers and magazines in the face of so many recent closings. In this clip, Isaacson laments the same news being on the Internet for free, and Stewart says firmly, "Sir, the Internet is free, I think everybody knows that."
Isaacson even suggests an iTunes-like system for news — not a bad idea, Mr. Isaacson, except that you're charging people for something that was once free (as Stewart says, this is "backtracking").
EXPOSED: PC Uses an iPhone!
PC is so busted. If you caught The Daily Show Wednesday night, you would have seen John Hodgman (aka PC) "traveling through time" with an uber geeky time traveling "helmet", discussing the future of the economy. After being chased back to present times by Space Invaders, he was unable to reveal what lies ahead for us and our money.
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Obama Shows You What the Weather Is Doing in Your City
In San Francisco, the weather can be hmm . . .
Website of the Day: DailyBooth
If you can't get enough social networking action (what, with your Twitter updates and Facebooking), add this service to your daily update list: DailyBooth.
DailyBooth is kinda like Twitter, where you post what you're doing and personal updates, but with the extra added feature of adding a photo to every post. Just activate your computer's on-board camera (or external camera) and snap away every day to show off your new haircut, or that shiner you got while playing volleyball with your pals.
Tech Dating 101: He Quotes My Tweets, What Does That Mean?
A gal pal recently divulged that she had a dinner date with a single male friend and when conversation turned to Twitter and the Internet, he proved to be a studied student in her tweets. In fact, he quoted a few of them verbatim. He presented the homage to her updates in a humorous way, ("so why didn't you tweet that?"
Daily Tech: Leaked iPhone Pics Show Off Hardware
- Leaked photos show new iPhone hardware, autofocus, and compass. — Wired
- Microsoft rolls out Bing early. — PC Mag
- Lego Harry Potter: 1-4 takes flight in 2010.
Hit the Books: Facebook Makes Your Grades Drop
Maybe it's time to sign off the social and start studying, hmm? A recent study examining the academic impact of Facebook has shown that people who use the site on a daily basis are more likely to earn lower grades than their peers — as much as whole letter grades!
The inevitable conclusion is that the site is a big time-waster (although I've noticed I spend less time on Facebook since its latest redesign, so thank you for that time back, FB), causing students to sacrifice the time they should have spent studying.
Daily Tech: The Nintendo DS Lite Is Now Only $89
- The Metallic Rose, Cobalt/Black, and Crimson/Black DS Lite is on sale for $89 at Target — CrunchGear
- The new $400 Logitech Harmony One remote comes with a charging dock and RF to IR control adapters — Gizmodo
- Ice-T decides to take a hammer to his old aluminum G4 laptop — Switched
- Now that Facebook has scooped up FriendFeed, Facebook is already showing off some feature enhancements and changes — TechCrunch
- Apple has just brought back the matte-finish screen option on the 15-inch MacBook Pro — Wired
- Predictive texting is making kids more prone to impulsive and thoughtless behavior — DailyMail
Daily Tech: TiVo Shows Off a Redesigned Search Feature
- TiVo users everywhere will be happy to know that its trusty digital video recorder has just received a new search, which offers improved search results. It is expected to roll out in beta today. — Engadget
- Without Steve Jobs, or huge product announcements, is Macworld 2009 really one of the worst Macworlds ever?
Daily Tech: Show Off Your iPhone With a DIY Polariod Frame
- Another beautiful and slightly vintage geek way to display your iPhone — the DIY recycled iPhone Stand. — Unplggd
- Google rolled out a feature that allows you to send SMS messages via Gchat, which means you can text without picking up your phone or using an extra, complicated website. — Gizmodo
- So you don't like the idea of scratching your iPhone, but you may love the scratchin' app.
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