Posts Tagged with ‘al-gore’

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

Launched today (officially), News Groper is a collection of 70+ parody blogs written in first-person form with various “newsmakers” as authors. Well, people purporting to be the newsmakers, anyhow.
No, Barack Obama didn’t really write that come-on to YouTube-based Jaimie (read post labeled: “YouTube debates round one: Wolf, I already miss you”). And Katie Couric didn’t really have a fit when speaking of the one who came before (See: “I’d Rather be a tart than unemployed, you stodgy hack”). [...]

Let me state right from the start that I am very, very skeptical about the veracity of the figure quoted by the organizers of this past weekend’s Live Earth event in counting the event’s audience – both online and offline. Why? Well, it’s hard to believe roughly 2 billion people visited the arenas, tuned in their televisions, and pointed their Web browsers to the sites bearing video streams broadcasting the action from around the globe. To say the least, [...]