The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates. Bottom line – Webcasters will now have to pay $500 per station annually, and about 1.28 cents per listener hour, retroactively to the beginning of 2006. For Live365.com, a service that allows individuals to legally run small Internet radio stations, the […]
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Hello – this is your blog calling.
Imagine picking up the phone, and being greeted by a computer/blog asking your opinions, and, by the way, if you want to leave verbal comments, they could appear on the blog as well. It’s already happening according to Business Week’s Stephen Baker who received a call from Barista.net, soliciting his opinion regarding a local hotel. […]
Future iPods may be pre-loaded with music I don’t want
Personally, I like the concept of getting a blank mp3 player and putting music on it that I like. For years radio stations tried to tell us what music we were supposed to like, and MTV and VH1 continue that same push mentality. Thanks to the internet, and music services such as emusic, Rhapsody, and […]
What a concept!
Alright – I’m posting this just for the cool factor. These cars look awesome! Check out these entries into Peugeot’s annual “car of the future” design contest. [Link]
Contextual Advertising Run Amok!
This Toyota advertisement popped up over a news story that used the word “car” in the headline. OK – maybe contextual advertising isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:
Technology Voting Guide
Here’s a very handy guide by Declan McCullagh outlining the way House Representatives and Senators voted on technology-related bills. As for Obama, he scored “out-of-the-office” on 14 of 16 bills and left the voting to others, while Clinton voted on only 9 of 16 bills, and scored only 33% out of 100 in the tech-friendly […]
Vista Mayhem?
Here’s a cartoon that’ll assist you with your Vista purchase. [Link]
Hey Robot! Grab me a beer while you’re in there!
Here it is folks – the robot servant. Now if only we could teach it to close the refrigerator door when it’s done. Maybe it could also be trained to close the toilet lid and pick up the damn clothes off the floor!
Finally Caught a Spammer
This should go a long ways towards cleaning out that inbox, eh? Billions of spam emails have plagued computer users for YEARS, and now, in 2007, 17+ years after the Internet came online, we proudly announce we have caught out first ever spammer! Alright. Unfortunately for him, since he’s the only one we’ve caught, he’ll […]