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Tumbling Down: Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Incites E-Tantrums

Tumblr Denizens Get Melodramatic Over Yahoo! Purchase

It has been amusing to watch some of the sillier, more melodramatic reactions to Yahoo's announcement that it will buy the blogging platform Tumblr. Given Yahoo's history of wrecking or abandoning services that it has purchased (GeoCities, Flickr), it's somewhat understandable that people would worr ... More >>

Twitter Fetishists Can't be Stopped

The horrific heaps of misinformation that spewed from Twitter and other social media services during the Boston Marathon bombing saga haven't slowed down the Twitter fetishists. If anything, they've doubled down. For some reason, these people believe that Twitter represents some kind of earth-shat ... More >>

Yahoo's New Ban on Telecommuting Is Draconian

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decree that telecommuting will no longer be allowed at the company is a terrible move for an executive who, in her short tenure, has otherwise done a great job turning the company around. That doesn't mean it's a simple problem. There are costs and benefits to telecommutin ... More >>

Check Out Livefyre, Our Cool New Commenting System

Today, we here at All Shook Down say goodbye to Disqus and hello to Livefyre, the new commenting system for this and all other SF Weekly blogs. Livefyre is pretty cool -- futuristic, even -- so we're excited for you to get acquainted. Here's a rundown of some key features: Tag your friends on Faceb ... More >>

Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers

News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>

News Sites Can't Rely on Advertising

​I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments wi ... More >>

Bowling For Chumps: How the Bowl System Robs U.S. Schools

The Stop Online Piracy Act: The Owner of San Francisco's Burning House Records Explains His Support

​You've probably heard some rumblings about the Stop Online Piracy Act recently. And in all likelihood -- especially if you watch major news channels like CNN -- it's probably all sounded pretty bad and pretty scary. Casey Shafer owns and runs Burning House Records -- an independent, San Francisco ... More >>

Google, Facebook, Others Fight Legislation to Stop Online Content Piracy

​A veritable who's who of major tech firms in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley are fighting federal legislation aimed at putting a stop to theft of original content online.The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would allow content creators to seek court orders barring internet service providers, se ... More >>

Too Legit to Google: MC Hammer Is Starting a Search Engine

Finally: A search engine with moves like MC Hammer​In perhaps the greatest gift to headline writers unleashed on the blogosphere this minute, Bay Area hip-hop figurehead, ordained Christian minister, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass regular MC Hammer announced some curious news in S.F. this week ... More >>

Yahoo's Chairman Must Go

​Much of the coverage of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's firing last week assumed that the company will now try to make a fresh start with a new leader. The fact that Yahoo's stock price has risen about 10 percent is an indication that some shareholders have made the same assumption.But Bartz was only a s ... More >>

Silence Is Death at Cobb's Comedy Club

Bouncer: Silence Is the Worst at Cobb's Comedy Club

​From this week's Bouncer column: I just made the mistake of reading all of the comments that followed a Yahoo News article on the legalization of gay marriage in New York state -- thousands of hateful people being viciously mean, woefully ignorant, or both. It reminds me of road rage, those ... More >>

Mike Singletary's Top Quotes

Mike Singletary is gone. But he is not forgotten. The linebacker-turned-coach combined the pugnacity of a fight promoter with the ebullience of a revivalist preacher -- and the winning percentage of Mike Nolan. Here, then, are the five top quotes from the man whose time atop the 49ers will probably ... More >>

Yahoo Paying Your Shipping Bill At Polk Street UPS Store

Yahoo has a surprise for you. ​Here's a heartwarming announcement for this gray Monday morning: Yahoo is paying for the shipping of selected people at the Polk Street UPS store (at Washington Street) from now until 12:30 p.m. today. Hurry over there and send your Christmas presents pronto!The cyni ... More >>

The city needs to call 911 on emergency dispatchers

How to Be a Tech Company for Halloween

​ Forget the Zuckerberg mask -- be a whole damn tech company for Halloween. Here's how. Apple How to dress: Wear all white with silver shoes. Limit your ports: No pockets, no fly. Your hair should be seamless.   How to scare people: Jailbreak your pants.   The night's over when: You call ... More >>

Yahoo! Maps Invents Silly San Francisco Place Names: 'Inset,' 'Outset'

Click map for larger version​Oh, if only I made enough to afford a flat in the Inset! As first noticed by Jim Herd over at SF Citizen, locals using Yahoo! Maps may find themselves doing a double-take -- right at the outset of their experience. For reasons yet unknown, the service has labeled the I ... More >>

Four More Movies About Tech Moguls That We Want to See

​Thanks to The Social Network, tech is hot! And sexy -- meow. And whenever anything is hot and sexy, Hollywood mauls it until it's bleeding and dying from liver failure in an El Segundo psych ward. But that's a few years off! Right now tech movies are getting a little of the "ol' treatment," if yo ... More >>

Mount Sutro battle pits tree lovers against native-plant lovers

San Franciscans Throw 'Too Soon' Costume Party

​Friday night, scores of irreverently dressed people gathered at a house on Chattanooga Street in San Francisco. There were a couple of black-faced coal miners, lots of pregnant women, some oiled ninja turtles, and the guy to the right, who came as the premature relationship talk. "Too Soon!" was ... More >>

Were Sheriffs Acting As Apple's Personal Stormtroopers?

Pic via St3f4n/Flickr​We have to admit, the search warrant in the iPhonegate case is a hell of a read. You've got Steve Jobs personally demanding his property back from rogue bloggers, suitcases full of cash, roommates ratting each other out, and dope fiends going crazy. Okay, not the last one. &n ... More >>

From @ Platform to Ad Platform? Twitter Announces @anywhere

​Perplexing the business-model hungry pundits with a difference of just one letter, Twitter CEO Ev Williams surprised the crowd today at his SXSWi keynote by announcing not an Ad platform but an @ platform, a way to further integrate Twitter's data into third party platforms without implementing a ... More >>

SF Maid Service's Pitch for Hard Times: Use Us, Or You Might Be Murdered

We knew times were hard, but it wasn't until we tried to hire a housecleaner to prepare for an in-laws visit that we realized how bad they were. Local cleaning service Marvel Maids apparently wants your business so bad they're willing to scare the shit out of you to get it. Their home page is d ... More >>

Local tech companies remove the music middleman

Mayoral Fantasy Football Challenge May Yet Be Won By Anonymous Yahoo Cubicle Jockey

Justin PageRon 'Mad Stork' Dellums​In less than three hours time, a stingy baker's dozen of American mayors -- that'd be 11 -- begin an odyssey toward what could be the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat ... to an unnamed office worker. Yes, it's the Yahoo Fantasy Football Mayoral showdown w ... More >>

Newsom! Dellums! Fantasy Football Draft! Not So Bad!

Justin PageGavin Newsom's fantasy team went a little Niners heavy...​The draft for the Yahoo Mayoral Face-off is in the books and local boys Gavin Newsom and Ron Dellums have crafted rosters that resemble the mayors themselves -- flawed, but interesting. The Fantasy Football challenge pits 11 mayo ... More >>

Newsom! Dellums! Who Will Win Mayoral Fantasy Football Spectacular? Who Will Explain What Fantasy Football Is to Ron Dellums?

Justin Page'I dedicate this touchdown to L'Oreal...'​Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco and Ron Dellums of Oakland come from different generations, but both have been assailed by their critics with the same adjective: detached. So no matter who drafts the better team tomorrow in a Yahoo! fantasy ... More >>

Mix-CD fans take their hobbies public in bars and galleries

The Clickable Clit: "I’m all Black and Blue. Thanks, Internet!"

I’m all black and blue. Thanks, internet!

Tuesday: Gay Marriages Flood City Hall

Yahoo's Shine for Women is Dull

Apple, Cisco, Google, SF Weekly To Attend SanFran MusicTech Summit Feb 25

The Top 50 Women in Business -- WSJ Honors Silicon Valley Fembots

Feds Searching Yahoo: You got searched!

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever

No Foos Is Bad News

Where have all the foosball tables gone in SF?

Hippie Puppy Chow

In the Stacks

Making a case for libraries

The Assjacks of Hazzard

Hank Williams III puts the "dick" in Dixie, and the mosh pit in a country music show

A Dog-Eat-Dog World

A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

All quiet on the Webcaster front

Congress and the music industry fight over Internet radio

Save the Wrapping Paper

Glow; Bacar; Bliss Bar

Web Rouser

Former Lusty Lady dancer Caity McPherson struggles to make a living on the oversexed Internet

Dog Bites

System Crashing

Buying Wired magazine may align you with the digerati, but buying its stock might sink you into poverty