They are so 2004. According to Paul Boutin, in the November 2008 issue of Wired, personal blogs should be retired. With the dominance of professional blogs, trolls, and time limitations, Twitter seems the obvious choice for the 2008 blogger. He explains: When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing to the top [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Eat, drink, and be merry — I know that the latter usually comes with the former two. We’re in the mountains for the next couple of days visiting family and overindulging. Hope everyone is happy and remembers how privileged we are to live in the US. More photos from our family [...]
I remember that the original Insight was before its time (like Apple’s Newton), so it didn’t do very well and it’s life was short-lived. It was rated at 70MPG, and it still seems like it’s the best fuel/electric hybrid, even today. Honda unveiled its new Insight at the LA motor show last week, and it [...]
I’m really tired of being treated like a criminal. When are these big companies going to learn: the more they try to break my digital devices, the faster they will lose? The more they try to control their digital content with DRM, the more they damage themselves? They might be able to keep their content [...]
Well, we’re TiVo people again. Thanks to Circuit City going out of business here, we were able to score an HD TiVo box for $80. We had been thinking about ditching cable, but with the addition of more HD channels and now a brand new TiVo, we’ll be holding on to cable for a while. [...]
From today’s Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of Voltaire, (books by this author) the man who helped spark the Enlightenment in France, born François-Marie Arouet in Paris (1694). He was a well-known playwright and poet. He spent most of his late life in exile, and he wrote most of his work from England. In the [...]
Dr. Gerald Lucas is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Media, Culture & the Arts at Middle Georgia State. He teaches courses in new media theory, web site design, and humanities. His research and teaching interests include epic poetry, science fiction, technoculture, writing for digital media, and modernism.