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31 Aug 2009 20:30

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Sports, Tech: The NFL put in a bunch of stupid rules against social media

  • Players (or team officials) can’t tweet (nor can surrogate tweet for them) during the game, nor 90 minutes before or after. The surrogate part is the Ochocinco rule. source
  • They can only use social media to update once a quarter, so as not to usurp play-by-play mechanisms media outlets pay the NFL a lot of money for. source
  • Fans can tweet to their heart’s content based on current rules. Which means you have a leg up on NBC News if you go to a Redskins game with a cell phone. source
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31 Aug 2009 10:39

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Tech: Electronic Arts has to buy lots of ads to market a game

  • $10 million cost of creating an average Electronic Arts video game source
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30 Aug 2009 22:07

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Tech: Got a Fwix on a big story? There’s an iPhone app for that

  • Journalism now fits in your pocket. With a new iPhone app coming this week, hyperlocal startup Fwix is ready to get in on the journalism-as-it-happens game. The app allows regular people to file news reports (which can include photos and videos) onto the company’s Web site, allowing for a kind of journalism that Twitter kind of allows already, but pushed even further. Are we replacing professional journalists with iPhone apps? Good question. Maybe a necessary one to ask. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 1 Comment • Permalink

30 Aug 2009 21:28

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Tech: The importance of knowing Kernest: Pretty high. Your move, TypeKit.

Hi guys! I'm Chunk. (Unless your browser doesn't support font-face. Then I'm Helvetica Neue.) I'm SFB's new logo font. I'm coming soon. But thanks to Kernest, I'm making an early appearance. Whoo!
  • A week and a half ago, we tried out this new service called TypeKit, and noted a few things about it: It costs money, it’s currently invite only, and it uses a tiered font system. It seemed pretty cool nonetheless. Then we tried Kernest. And we have to say, Kernest simply does it better.

    Why’s that, ShortFormBlog? There’s fewer, less confusing barriers to entry, it doesn’t use Javascript (very key), it costs less (even more key) and (best of all) the DRM is less complicated.

    A la carte, not subscription. Right now, Kernest’s selections are largely open-source, freeware or donationware. Most of TypeKit’s selections are big commercial fonts. We think this is mostly an exposure/hype thing rather than a quality thing, because TypeKit’s been a Twitter trending topic a few times. We’re convinced that they simply need attention from the media.

    It’s not perfect yet, though. Our biggest complaints about the service at the moment all relate to the interface: Simply put, this list needs to be more like this list, and it needs to be more intuitive overall. In our opinion, TypeKit’s interface is a little cleaner from the backend. (But on the other hand, Kernest doesn’t hide its assets from the user for trial viewing, as we found with TypeKit’s list with no links.) But what Kernest is offering seems to be just a little better on the frontend. What do your users care about? Seriously? source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 21 Comments • Permalink

28 Aug 2009 09:58

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Offbeat, Tech: Let this be a lesson to Google: Never let nerds use grills

Google’s U.K. offices caught on fire yesterday, prompting a frantic search for a fire extinguisher. They found the fire department instead. source
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27 Aug 2009 10:52

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Tech: Daily Poll: Do you plan to buy OSX Snow Leopard tomorrow?

  • Screw it. We’re doing this everyday now. Thanks to the good responses we’ve gotten to our previous polls, we’re going to start posting daily questions. Which means you jerks better respond and make us look good.
Posted by Ernie Smith • 3 Comments • Permalink

27 Aug 2009 09:58

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Tech: Conficker: A giant zombie botnet with nothing to attack (yet)

  • 5 million computers are part of Conficker’s zombie botnet of fun source
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26 Aug 2009 11:01

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Tech: Teens don’t Tweet, MySpace or Facebook more than the rest of us

  • of Twitter users are aged between 12 and 17, a study says source
  • of MySpace users fit into that preteen age group source
  • of Facebook users can say they’re, like, teens source
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26 Aug 2009 01:35

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Tech: Poll: Wikipedia’s about to limit edits to the site. Should they?

  • It’s for the common good or something. The New York Times reported yesterday that that big, crazy experiment in knowledge, Wikipedia, is about to make some big changes to its policy. Within a few weeks, the user-edited encyclopedia will have an extra layer of editing for articles on living people – a volunteer with a lot of time on their hands will approve each edit. It’s not too unlike what they do for really popular articles like Britney Spears or Barack Obama, except expanded to EVERY living person. What do you think – is this a road they should go down? Vote above. source
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25 Aug 2009 11:27

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Tech: Sony’s got a new, larger Reader to compete with the Kindle

  • $399 for seven inches of wireless reading glory source
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