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b5 Media blogger Alister Cameron has announced that he’s looking for bloggers interested in pursuing what he calls the holy grail of WordPress design, functional flexibility. In his words:
I’m putting out a call for Alpha testers for a new WP theme I’ve codenamed Vanilla.
Basically, it integrates the amazing Sandbox theme with the Yahoo User […]
As noted in a hard-hitting S.F. Chron piece far from the front page, Egyptian bloggers have been bringing a huge amount of attention to use of torture by Egyptian police officers. (See the U.K. Guardian from earlier this year for more.)
Much of the incriminating footage comes from cell phone videos. “Cell phones […]
Hacking into electronic voting machines actually seems to be getting easier these days, which means that it’s time to acknowledge officially the reality established in the 2000 presidential election.
In the United States, voting is a game of chance.
Many voters in recent local elections were pleased by the element of chance the machines introduced. “My receipt […]
It’s now being reported in The Register and elsewhere that MySpace has “detected and deleted” almost 30,000 weenie waggers from its membership.
One of the comments on the Register article asks simply, “How do they know [who’s a sex offender]? Is there a box you can check?”
This is a good question. It wouldn’t be hard […]
The Windows version of Apple’s Safari browser was downloaded over a million times in the first 48 hours since it was released.
While this download volume is impressive, keep it in perspective. In comparison, pics of the B-Spears crotch chihuahua were downloaded at about a hundred times this rate in the first two days after […]
Over the last few days, news stories have describes MIT experiments that involved successfully transmitting electricity to a light bulb without using wires. This sounds so “too good to be true” that I have to wonder if it’s a hoax. Most everyone else is calling it WiTricity.
If it’s for real, the world is […]
Trip Hawkins and various permutations of Palm have cranked out a ton of PDAs over the years, and now the company is cranking out a $9 dividend to holders of the $17 stock, all as part of a recapitalization that will give 25% of the company to Elevation Partners and put $440 million in debt […]
While we’re a long way from real mega, total, universal WiFi access, wireless junkies are moaning with pleasure about the news that Avis is offering WiFi connection equipped rental cars.
This is great news, but like all technological swords, it has two edges and a poorly designed handle.
Years ago, oblivious drivers fumbling with microscopic car stereo […]
Digg Hunts for News Corp Treasure.
Treasure as in $150 million.
Ingram: Edgeio not all that great?
Rafat: Comcast, Turner get with user-generated ad firm ViTrue.
Tonight: Honeycut at Rickshaw Stop.
Strange bedfellows StreetIQ and Christian Financial Radio team up for a contest with a funded trading account as the prize.
Box.net gets $1.5 million in VC funding.
Love and Death in […]
If you want a hard-edged, no bull**** view of Web 2.0, take a good look at the Hotelmarketing.com website.
A lot of web travel stuff is YouTube level crap riddled with bad links and phony deals–cheapest fare to LA, one stop over in Herzgovina. But this particular site has some pretty interesting and practical stuff on […]
Written by Paul Springer for b5media.
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