While a lot of my internet-politics post will focus on the 2008 presidential race, I found Arkansas Representative, Steve Harrelson’s blogger blog Under the Dome last night. He serves as the Arkansas House of Representatives Majority Leader and posts to his blog multiple times throughout the day from on the [...]

The Internet is playing an increasingly important role in help citizens shape their political reviews. The Pew Internet and the American Life 2006 Elections Online (pdf) released last month presents a revealing look at how Americans use the Internet with relations to politics. The findings in this report include 15 [...]

The Washington Post launched On Being this week. Is this the new product that Rob Curley was talking about last week when discussed the Naples Daily News Studio 55? Howard Owens has some questions about it, too. And I guess that I don’t completely get it, either. Even though the [...]

This past weekend we found a Nintendo Wii. I’ve been looking for one since Christmas. Looking is probably overstating it, but whenever I was at the local Wal-Mart or electronic stores, I’ve check out their videogame section to see if they have a Wii in stock. On Sunday afternoon, I [...]

Just as I was explaining to a class about web 2.0, I ran across this wonderful video mashup from Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University of text, screenshots and music explaining the Web 2.0 concept.

Kodak whose photography business has virtually collapsed with the popularity of digital photography is flipping the traditional printer pricing model on its head. Instead of selling the printer cheap and charging enormous sums for ink, Kodak plans to sale the printer between $100 and $200 and sale the ink for [...]

At the NAA Marketing Conference Tom Mohr breeched the idea this week that “local is no longer an organizing principle in the interactive world.” Seeing that this is a newspaper conference and newspapers are locally oriented, this statement is like another nail in the newspaper coffin. In his presentation (pdf [...]

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has had many critics since it was enacted, but now the enforcement of it has to been taken to the extreme in recent days. Here’s two sample cases. The inventor of the dance the “Electric Slide” has begun filing DMCA take down notices to YouTube [...]

The Arkansas Highway Department was forced to close the Arkansas Hwy 7 bridge over the Ouachita River South of Arkadelphia due to flooding on the South side of the river. When they close the bridge during a flood long-time residents enjoy walking out over the river to watch the swift [...]

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette launched a much needed redesign today. The site had some small enhancements over the past year, but desperately needed some major help. I’m sure their web staff is glad to get the redesign monkey off their back and out the door (I’ve experienced that kind of relief [...]