Archive for January, 2008

The new joint venture between Harper Collins and MySpace is a social literary site geared solely to teens. The space is dedicated to becoming a place for teens to talk about what they are reading and writing, and hopefully to discover new literature of all types. It also provides a place for literary teens to [...]

It was a match made most begrudgingly by two clashing factions, and one which often seemed far too uncomfortable for all involved and more trouble than it was worth to keep together. But it was nonetheless a partnership widely viewed as a critical compromise that would have to be maintained, against all odds, if the [...]

Blogs can be wonderful things. They can be informative, and can perhaps be taken as trustworthy authorities on various subjects. They can be irreverently grim and/or humorous to levels mostly avoided by the industry of old media, a freedom which can be exploited to their great advantage. They can be quite inclusive as far as [...]

Know what hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and tech industry extraordinaire Steve Jobs have in common? Apparently a record company. So some in the blogosphere are predicting will be the news later this month, anyway. The Boy Genius Report was one of the first to point out Wednesday the odd indication that a joint venture by the [...]

Not a week has passed since I assembled a list of predictions for 2008 for your amusement, and already we find two well-known corporate entities deliver an official press release proving one postulation to be quite on-target. Indeed, both Netflix and LG have teamed together to form a sort of digital download alliance, giving something [...]

It’s hard out there for…a Saudi Arabian blogger. The headlines on Technorati are many today. It’s now been made officially clear by the Saudi Interior Ministry that a widely-regarded Arabian noisemaker, Fouah al-Farhan, was recently “taken in” for questioning “about specific violations of non-security laws.” Mr al-Farhan covers, among other items, the subject of social [...]

One unpopular prime minister, John Howard, was ousted in Australia’s November ’06 election for his unwavering support for Operation Iraqi Destruction. His replacement, Kevin Rudd, is now under fire not two months into his first term for an initiative which would enact the filtration of the nation’s entire Internet backbone, much to the apparent anger [...]

I tend to keep my eye on about a dozen or so feeds (gathered by Google Reader, if you’re curious to know) every day in order to scrounge up enough fodder for my posts here at Profy. (Si, soy un moocher.) Some of course receive more attention than others. Case in point: I passed over [...]

It’s January 1st, and we’re creeping ever closer to the day of the 700MHz spectrum auction, a so far widely publicized event to be orchestrated by the FCC. Some 260 or so applicants have submitted their names as participants in the process, including Google, AT&T, Qualcomm, and Alltel. Even Chevron is on the roster. We [...]