dan tynan on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, US Airways Magazine, Video, Web 2.0, politics, youtube
The Internet has changed presidential politics forever – and mostly for the better
As I write this column, the U.S. presidential race is still tighter than a pair of $2 shoes. But this time around, it might not be hanging chads or hockey moms that determine who wins. It might just be the Internet.
[Note: I [...]
dan tynan on Oct 28 2008 | Filed under: 15 minutes
I did a podcast yesterday with Jeff Powers, the force of nature behind Geekazine.com. We talked mostly about the YouTube effect on politics and the fact that we haven’t yet had a "Macaca" moment (but there’s still plenty of time), and also about Sarah Palin, Tina Fey, Hulu, and the new crop of amateur [...]
dan tynan on Oct 10 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Google, Infoworld, Microsoft, Video, youtube
Politics is infecting everything these days, from YouTube to email to, yes, Cringely’s blog. Thank god Microsoft and Google finally decided to get along. Right?
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Foolishness, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
Quick, what’s more stupid–driving 140 mph or filming yourself while driving 140 mph? How about filming yourself driving 140 mph and then posting the evidence on YouTube? That was only the tip of the dunce-berg for 23-year-old Andrew Kellett of Leeds, England. He posted more than 80 videos of himself driving recklessly, stealing gasoline, [...]
dan tynan on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Lists, PC World, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
What is it about firehouses that makes people want to take off their clothes? In this case, Boston fireman Alberto Arroyo got in trouble for stripping down to take part in a body-building competition last May. (He finished eighth in the 2008 Pro Natural American Championships, by the way.) There’s nothing wrong with fire [...]
dan tynan on Sep 09 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Copyrights and wrongs, Crazyass cults, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
From Jon Newton at P2Pnet comes this report: A group apparently acting as a proxy for the Church (ahem) of Scientology has issued 4000 takedown notices to YouTube for any videos relating to CoS — including things like city commission meetings for the city of Clearwater, Florida (where CoS has its HQ).
To wit:
The Cult of [...]
dan tynan on Aug 06 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
It seems Anonymous has resurfaced and hired a publicist. Two days ago I received an email alerting me to two new YouTube videos from the anti-Scientology crusader(s). I’d been wondering what had happened to it/them, since things had been so quiet lately on that front. [...]
dan tynan on Jul 09 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy, Video, youtube
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom’s attorneys soon will.
The owners of Comedy Central and VH1 are attempting to [...]
dan tynan on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld’s Notes From the Field Blog.)
It’s been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC’s proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. Here are some of the highlights.
First, longtime [...]
dan tynan on May 29 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Facebook, Google, Infoworld, Quizzes, Web 2.0, yahoo, youtube
(Note: An edited/augmented version of this piece appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Sure, you may know all about the garage where Apple was born, Michael Dell’s dorm room, or Bill Gates’ youthful indiscretions. But that’s all so 1997. The old guard of the PC revolution are giving way to the young Web 2.0 turks redefining technology for [...]
dan tynan on May 28 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Google, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
Frankly, I thought Viacom’s $1 billion law suit against YouTube was dead. YouTube has been kicking people off its site left and right for posting copyrighted material, even if they didn’t always deserve it. And Viacom had started allowing its best material — like South [...]
dan tynan on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Video, Web 2.0
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don’t get me wrong — I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, but just think of the employment opportunities. [...]
