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Internet

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Man Beats Wife's Facebook Friend to Death With Baseball Bat

    For some users, "defriending" someone on Facebook isn't satisfying enough. A jealous Taiwanese man beat his wife's Facebook friend to death after the two were busted leaving flirty posts on the social networking site. According to the China Post, the woman, Chen, wrote on her Facebook page: "I want ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    SOPA Might Be Bad Policy, but It's Not Censorship

    ​If you're reading this, chances are that you regularly consume media online. And if you regularly consume media online, you're almost certainly seeing and reading more today than you know what to do with about the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Spofity Is Here -- Now! (Really!)

    via EngadgetIf you can listen to Thee Oh Sees on Spotify, how bad can it be?​ After years of waiting, something finally came*: Spotify, the Europe-based music subscription service Americans have been drooling over for a long while, is up and running the U.S. as of today. You can go to that lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Spotify Might Be Taking Over Your Facebook Feed Next Week

    What the future of your music listening might look like.​ Alright, fine, so we've written that "Spotify is coming soon" post like a million times now -- pretty much like any other media outlet that's excited to get their hands on the music service that makes Europe smile. This is sorta like th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Zynga, Vostu, SocialApps: Are Legal Squabbles Signs of the Social Gaming Apocalypse?

    Drought years ahead?​Zynga has always been the target of various allegations of pirating other companies' ideas, but in the last week, tech-world buzz on the twin topics of Zynga and copyright infringement has risen to a deafening level. Last Thursday, Zynga filed a lawsuit against Brazilian game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Apple Unveils iCloud, the Best-Seeming Music Locker Service So Far

    Meet your new master, the iCloud​This news didn't shake the earth off its axis or anything -- only Anthony Weiner's semiflaccid member could do that -- but the cloud music service Apple unveiled today in San Francisco sounds at least cool and likely useful: The iCloud, as it's called, is a free 5G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Foursquare: The Silliest Thing Ever Invented

    ​Before I started using Twitter a couple of years ago, I, like many people then and now, assumed it must be the silliest thing ever invented. The stupid name didn't (and doesn't) help. Mainly, I thought people used it for telling the world what they had for lunch, but I then looked into the matter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    S.F.'s Westfield Mall Denies Blackballing Gay Blog from Media Event

    Is it all bloggers or just gay bloggers? ​Update 2:26 p.m.: A Westfield Mall spokesman called SF Weekly to clear up what he said was a miscommunication. According to the spokesman, "the event was open to all credentialed media, and it was our understanding that all media had gained access. It was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Online Bake Sale for Japan Trounces Its Goal

    The Tomato Tart​Last week's Online Bake Sale for Japan yielded over $8,200 for Second Harvest Japan's relief efforts, says organizer and blogger Sabrina Modelle (The Tomato Tart). Some 90 food bloggers from seven countries put up sweets and other foods for auction on Mar. 30. "Not bad," Modell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Claim: Limewire's Shutdown Reduced Music Piracy by 7 Percent

    ​The nationally-recognized market research nerds NPD Group just released their latest poll, which suggests the shutdown of the file-sharing application Limewire this past October reduced peer-to-peer-based music piracy in the U.S. by a significant 7 percent. Wait, that many of you were still ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Meet Appetites, an Interactive Cooking Show for the iPad

    ​It's been 10 months since the iPad launched, and companies are still figuring out how to tailor apps to the notepad computer. Many have simply enlarged existing, text-based iPhone apps or have treated the iPad as an electronic version of a glossy magazine. A new generation of iPad apps is finall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Facebook vs. Google: Who Would You Rather Have Reading Your E-Mail?

    ​Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement yesterday that his company is launching a consolidated e-mail/instant message/text message service has sent the technorati into a predictable tizzy. Facebook's new messaging feature is one of those tech innovations whose significance is tough to judge r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    She Won't Stop Blogging About Me

    ​The girl I'm dating keeps blogging about me. We've been dating for about a month now, I guess. I am flattered, but I don't want all her blog readers up in our biznasty, if you know what I mean, even though she doesn't have a huge following or anything. Can I tell her to stop? She doesn't use my r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    The 'Unprocessed' Challenge: Another Way to Make You Feel Bad About Your Diet

    I bet Mother Teresa ate unprocessed foods.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs.On New York Times' food blog Friday, Pete Wells wrote about a blogger named Andrew Wilder who has launched a monthlong food challenge called "October: Unprocessed." This one asks participants to commit to eating unproces ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Deflating the Social Media Hot Air Balloon

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Not a revolutionary​Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and their ilk -- standard bearers for the ill-defined phenomenon known as "social media" that is now supposed to be the future of the Web -- are having a tough time these days in the thinking person's press.Over the past f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Five Features That Would Make iPod iTunes Better For Music Fans

    ​Even if we don't know what will actually happen at Apple's big music announcement next week, we know what we want to happen. The iTunes/iPod combination has long been the standard apparatus for music fans, but as much as we love it, there are things we hate about it, too -- and things we wish it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    YouTube Explains Top Secret 'News Experiment' to Local Media, But Doesn't Really

    Sometimes this new media transition thing can be so, how you say, awkward. According to SFAppeal blogger Eve Batey, Google-owned video aggregator YouTube is up to some hush hush citizen journalism project here in our very own San Francisco. Apparently part of a select group of "San Francisco blogger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Doggy Bag: Deliciously Gross

    Gut CheckThe pickle-stretcher salad: Desperate housewives.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Fewwd: Maybe stomach-churning food mashups made with supermarket ingredients is comforting, the way reality TV's focus on the dickish and deluded offers clear catharsis. After you've had enough of S ... More >>

  • Music

    January 20, 2010

    Cloud technology and the future of portable music

    Gut CheckThe pickle-stretcher salad: Desperate housewives.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Fewwd: Maybe stomach-churning food mashups made with supermarket ingredients is comforting, the way reality TV's focus on the dickish and deluded offers clear catharsis. After you've had enough of S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Tweeting His Fingers to the Bone

    mountaineer/FlickrIt's not all foie gras and Neapolitan thin crust.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Too much fun: Chronicle food czar Michael Bauer reflects on restaurant reviewers' new reality, after all the tweeting and Facebook friending and blogging the Internets have given rise to. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Serious About Your Social Media? Watch This Show

    ​While most of us live on the outskirts of the social media landscape, tweeting the occasional brain fart and using facebook to update our relationship status, there are a select few who choose to take their engagement with the networks that be to a whole new level. For those special people who th ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2009

    The business of selling used MP3s

    ​While most of us live on the outskirts of the social media landscape, tweeting the occasional brain fart and using facebook to update our relationship status, there are a select few who choose to take their engagement with the networks that be to a whole new level. For those special people who th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Last Night: Twestival SF at the Paradise Lounge

    Twestival SF Paradise Lounge Thursday, January 12 2009 Photos by Scott Siegel Better than: Going to a boring old party where you have to wear a nametag of your actual name. For an event dedicated to us compulsive microbloggers, Twestivalsf proved surprisingly swank - and surprisingly low tech. Hel ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Stealth Bloggers

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2008

    Tin Foil Hat Contingent Shut Down Sebastopol WiFi

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2008

    Will Blog For Frozen, Junk Food -- Did I Mention Gummy Candy?

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Google: Is Censorship "Evil" or Just "Evil-ish?"

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2008

    Kidneys for Sale on Facebook, Orkut

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2008

    Fresh from controversy, Lane Hartwell to head up Tuesday night panel discussion and ask the immortal question: what's protecting artists on the web?

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    Pakistani Bloggers Speak Out on “Emergency Rule”: BetterKnowanSFBlog - Metroblogging

    Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  • Culture

    July 18, 2007

    The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture

    By Andrew Keen (Doubleday, $22.95)

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2007

    Net Radio Royalty EXTRA -- UPDATES: David Byrne, Cover feature

    By Andrew Keen (Doubleday, $22.95)

  • News

    June 13, 2007

    Stern Reprimand

    SEIU members in Northern California challenge the national boss over his collaboration with employers

  • Music

    May 23, 2007

    Outgrowing Tom?

    Musicians look beyond MySpace

  • Calendar

    January 17, 2007

    Welcome to MySpace, Whoever You Are

    This year, it's all about You, so put Yourself out there

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Buying In

    This year, it's all about You, so put Yourself out there

  • News

    October 25, 2006

    This Ain't Your Children's YouTube ...

    Google bought YouTube for something like a bazillion dollars last week. Is this a deathknell for the popular video clip service, or the start of an even bigger, better Internet library?

  • Music

    May 10, 2006

    One IODA

    Welcome to the dark, scary forest of the digital music business. Here is your flashlight.

  • Music

    June 29, 2005

    Rise of the Pod People

    Podcasting: What it is, how to get it, and what it means for a radio dial near you

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Sports Blog

    Podcasting: What it is, how to get it, and what it means for a radio dial near you

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    Fiber-Optic Illusion

    Why Tom Ammiano's plans to create a city-owned broadband network are a boondoggle-in-the-making

  • Music

    September 17, 2003

    Raw Sue-age

    Let us not squander the gift of mass lawsuits against average Joes: Fuck the RIAA!

  • Music

    July 10, 2002

    All quiet on the Webcaster front

    Congress and the music industry fight over Internet radio

  • Music

    December 19, 2001

    Paying through the nose -- and the ears

    Noncommercial radio versus the capitalist urge

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    I Have a Dream 2.0

    New Seybold upgrade brings ethics, privacy, adulation, salvation via Internet

  • Music

    August 2, 2000

    Stream a Little Stream

    Or How to Succeed in Webcasting Without Selling Out

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    South to the Future

    E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    Dog Bites

    E-tailers Surf the Anti-Microsoft Wave

  • News

    July 14, 1999

    TheirNameHere.com

    New domains -- including .store -- likely to multiply Internet trademark conflicts

  • Calendar

    December 20, 1995

    Webbing Out

    New domains -- including .store -- likely to multiply Internet trademark conflicts

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