Archive for the ‘Offbeat’ Category

Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US

Mar 6 by JD Rucker | 22 comments

An article in the NY Times yesterday really upset me. If you live in the US, it should upset you as well. Hong Kong has a broadband service that costs less than $26 a month. This option for its fiber-to-the-home service offers a speed of 1,000 megabits a second. A gig. To put more »

Warlock-Mania: A Roadmap for Fallen Celebrities to Reinvent Themselves

Mar 5 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

When a celebrity gets arrested multiple times for embarrassing actions, goes to rehab, wrecks his car, loses one of the most lucrative jobs in television acting history, and goes on a tear of unexplainable public appearances and interviews, more »

Technology to Art: The Microchip Paintings of Yuri Zupancic

Mar 4 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Just try and tell us tech doesn’t go hand-in-hand with art (you can’t). And while technology shrinks, so too does the art inspired by it. Take American artist Yuri Zupancic, for example, who has taken to painting miniature masterpieces onto more »

Singing Banner Ads Were Only The Beginning...

Feb 28 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

If Google has AdSense, let’s just call this NonSense. A new advertising campaign for people-what-make-cars Alfo Romeo is (we desperately hope) not the future of advertising, as you’ll doubtlessly agree by watching this video. ‘There’s more »

Demand Media Lives On: The Moral of Google's "Farmer" Algorithm Change

Feb 26 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

When the Demand Media witch hunt started a few months ago, journalists and bloggers called for action against what they termed the biggest “content farm.” There is little doubt that eHow is in essence exactly as described: a venue for low-quality, quickly-written more »

Cyberbullying: By the Numbers

Feb 25 by JD Rucker | add comment

The digital age has not necessarily increased the amount of cruelty performed by kids and young adults. It has simply changed the venue. Cyberbullying is making headlines and being blamed for many of the tragedies that happen in schools across more »

Why the Automotive Industry is Shifting to New Media

Feb 24 by JD Rucker | 17 comments

There is a shift happening in the automotive industry when it comes to marketing from the dealers up to the OEMs. New Media (which includes social media, mobile, local marketing, search, etc) has witnessed hesitant adoption over recent years more »

Egyptian Father Names Daughter 'Facebook'... Yeah, For Real

Feb 21 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Talk about gratitude. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter ‘Facebook’ to pay homage to the role Facebook (like, real Facebook) played in the recent Egyptian revolution.  No, really. more »

How the Human Brain Retains Information

Feb 20 by JD Rucker | 3 comments

The manner by which humans retain and retrieve information is an area widely explored and as of yet not completely understood. The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, more »

Do Companies Really Need Social Media Managers?

Feb 19 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

As businesses continue to get more involved with social media as part of their branding, marketing, and customer relations, most are hiring “social media managers” to be their voice in Web 2.0. It’s a growing trend that many have said will burst more »

Guys... We Just Broke Science

Feb 18 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

And here is a visual riddle to help ferry you into the weekend – Escher’s Waterfall, come to life. I’ve been sitting here for longer than I should trying to figure this one out. Any insights, Techi readers? Or did we really just kick science in the more »

Pixels. Old School.

Feb 16 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

Children of the 80s, beware. This video is bound to bring back the nostalgia that only an attachment to something that we spent way too much time on can do. Today, gaming is all about removing the variances and deviations from reality to make the more »