Royal Pingdom has released some interesting stats on the users of 19 social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Slashdot, Reddit, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Last.fm, Friendster, LiveJournal, Hi5, Tagged, Ning, Xanga, Classmates.com, & Bebo). There stats highlight how social networking – which many look at as “something for the kids” – is going a […]

Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, and the Democratic National Committee are looking to hire a Social Networks Manager. The Social Networks Manager will be responsible for maintaining the Democratic Party and Organizing for America accounts on all social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Qualifications: Excellent writing and editing skills […]

Lost star Jorge “Hurley” Garcia has launched a new podcast, Geronimo Jack’s Beard, to coincide with the start of Lost Season Six: Hello everyone! Welcome to the blog for Geronimo Jack’s Beard, a LOST podcast brought to you by Sidekick22 and that other guy. This podcast has been waiting a long time to finally be […]

Charlie Brooker does an amazing job, in two minutes, of explaining How To Report The News. While Brooker does not delve deeply into technical details, there’s much here that would be of use to anyone creating user-generated media.

Need proof that podcasts inspire dedicated fans? Then check this out – the podcast team of Keith Malley and Chemda hit a milestone as Jesse Smith became the 50th fan of the Keith and The Girl podcast to get a tattoo or branding. This 19-year-old tattooed the letters KATG, in honor of his favorite show, […]

Two recent Apple introductions – iTunes LP & Apple TV – are interesting technologies but have failed to wow customers. The main reason for this has been a lack of content. Only a tiny number of albums are available as iTunes LP releases. And Apple TV is crippled by the paucity of content on it. […]

McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw confirmed (or spilled the beans) some details on Apple’s upcoming Apple iPad computer. In an interview with CNBC, McGraw says that the Apple Tablet is very exciting, will run iPhone OS and that it will be great for textbooks: “Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked […]

Wizzard today announced that it recorded 1.4 billion podcast download requests in 2009 through its podcast-hosting service Libsyn, or about 16% more than it delivered in 2008. Libsyn received an average of 3.77 million requests for podcast episodes per day in 2009. On average, 23 minutes per episode equates to almost 1.5 million hours of […]

Rain Computers will debut its LiveBook Studio, a high performance quad-core notebook based on Intel’s “Nehalem” Core i7 architecture, at the Winter NAMM Show. LiveBook Studio will be available for sale starting in early February 2010 with a trio of quad-core processors, drives up to 500GB and up to 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory. It […]

Steve Rubel wants to know what’s up with all they hype about the rumored Apple iPad computer. He speculates that We’re Bored and Out of Shiny Objects: For the last several months there’s been a ton of interest in the mythical Apple tablet. Just how much? Since July Google searches for the words Apple and […]