From the archive

July 2008

65 posts

Why blogs are better than newspapers.

There has been a lot of talk over recent years about how online classifieds like Craigslist have been the cause of the decline in the overall revenue and profit of the newspaper industry (some papers still thrive). I do not believe that this is the whole story though. Newspapers did not start with a business model based on classifieds, they

WiFi Helps You Park

Can't find that next parking spot? Well, if you are in San Francisco, you will be able to use the internet to hone in on available spots. 6,000 parking spots will be fitted with a sensor that will tell you if a spot is open. When you are looking for a spot, all you have to do is pull out

RawVoice introduces Podcast Publishing with Hosting!

Since Feb of this year my team has been marching to the drum of introducing a suite of new products and services this year. Today we cut loose the next service in our power house suite of new media and podcast tools.

Tech Podcast Roundtabl Live

You can listen in to the Tech Podcast Round Table. If you want to see the live screen shots you will need to join the GotoMeeting Session As soon as we have processed the video from today.. I will have a link here.

Apple Blows it with new iPhone Activation

Seems the in store activation has blown up in AT&T face. Believe me this in store activation fiasco was a result of AT&T getting hammered in the first iPhone release when people like me put T-Mobile sims in the phone after unlocking them ourselves. Glitch

FCC stands up for Net Neutrality

The NY Times is reporting that the FCC has found that Comcast's aggresive blocking of BitTorrent traffic has violated the FCC's open access rules. What the penalty will be will not be known until August once the full board has met. This ruling sets a fantastic precedent, while every ISP shapes traffic to some extent if they are too aggresive

GNC-2008-07-11 #390 Lots of Secret Announcements!

Listen to the show to find out some of the cool stuff RawVoice is launching. I will have formal announcements over the next few days and into next week. Also Tricaster Broadcast is on the way! Please Support my Show Sponsors!: [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts.

Tech Podcast Round Table Saturday July 12th

A Very Special Tech Podcasts Round Table Saturday July 12th 4pm Eastern 1pm Pacific The team at TechPodcasts.com are going to have a very special Tech Podcast Round Table. They will be introducing the new version of GotoMeeting, plus they have 2 terrific speakers. The Presenters will be: John Coonen, the head of the Joomla Chicago Users Group, and founder

Looking for Service to use with my TriCaster Broadcast

In the next several days I take delivery of a TriCaster Broadcast. I have a lot of of plans for the unit, but over the next couple of weeks I need to pick a permanent video streaming service.

Major DNS Patches Being Applied to fix Security Holes

You might not be sure of what DNS is and I could explain it to you (don't worry, I will), but let's just get to the meat and potatoes here. Some Major DNS servers will be getting patches applied to them that will fix some very important vulnerabilities. OK. Technical jargon paragraph: DNS stands for Domain Name System. Basically, it

To RSS or not RSS

Matthew's post just below this one got me thinking this morning. I don't use a news/RSS aggregator. I have tried one out once, but didn't like it much, because I thought I was missing out on some things. So I read my news, tech and otherwise, the old-fashioned way. I visit sites individually. I know this sounds time-consuming, but I've

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