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Business sites see uptick in visits

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Business news commonly doesn't attract a lot of eyeballs online, but these aren't common times.

Sarah Palin: the talk of the Web

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

You can argue all you want about the wisdom of Gov. Sarah Palin as a vice presidential nominee - and online America has been doing just that.

We're all a-twitter being succinct

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Samuel Morse tapped out this historic message upon inventing the telegraph: What hath God wrought?

The downside of the Internet: some cases in point

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

News item: A music blogger was arrested for posting several not-yet-released songs by the rock band Guns N' Roses. Prosecutors argued the leak could cause a financial loss for the band.

News from Apple sparks a posting frenzy

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Today is Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July - for the bloggers who follow Apple.

Running Ravens sites isn't a snap

Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

T ony Lombardi's answering machine ends with the message, "Remember, do what you love and love what you do."

Obama bests McCain in battle of Web sites

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The allure of Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy to people nimble with the Internet was clear long before he became his party's front-runner. A Web designer produced an online video mimicking a famed Apple Computer commercial to mock rival Hillary Clinton before the first primary vote was even cast.

Time for a change in Obama's playlist

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Questions posed to presidential hopefuls reflect their times. Remember the famous one for Bill Clinton during the Rock the Vote forum - boxers or briefs?

Screen, paper create reading overload

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Print is having some issues at the moment, which may be like saying New Orleans took on some water. Insults fly, playground-style, about how long one published entity or another will be alive. Microsoft's CEO says no ink-on-paper newspapers or magazines by 2018; someone else says there'll be no Microsoft by then either. Newsweek will be gone in five years, predicts a columnist willing to bet dinner on it; I prefer steak, the magazine's editor shoots back.

A social site just for lacrosse? Just ask him

Sun, 25 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

As the top men's teams in college lacrosse face off for the national championship outside Boston this weekend, Web designer Glen Doss plans to be competing there, too - for fans' attention.