Blogcritics Category: Sci/Tech: Blogging

Beginners Suffer from Technoparalysis

Alan Hammond — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 08:12:38 EST

Many people are preventing themselves from starting a business, publishing a Web site, or earning more income due to their technology fears.
Have you ever seen a particularly aesthetic Web site, not a “busy” one with lots of techno-features, but a simply great site? If you’re ever on the 'Net, you’ve seen at least a few. If you’re like most Generation-Xers and older, you have no idea how it’s done. You may even feel like you could have a...

Oh, Now What's Wrong With The Right?

Heloise — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:55:25 EST

If the right wingnut bloggers want war then the lefty bloggers should oblige.
Like a crying baby awaiting a bottle or with a wet diaper drooping full and needing change, the right is whining again. They have it down to a science. Still smarting from November 4th’s thumping — word is they are retooling, trolling and trotting out actual ideas to be on par with lefty blogging fools. Imagine that, trying to beat the...

Outrageous Porn Pop-Up Case In Connecticut Is Over

Ed Dickson — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:47:06 EST

If you want to see a modern day comparison to the Salem Witch Trials, all you have to do is follow the prosecution of Julie Amero.
If there were ever a modern case that could be compared to the Salem witch trials, it would be the effort to prosecute Julie Amero, a Norwich, Connecticut school teacher, for (allegedly) exposing her students to pornography. Julie was convicted on four counts of exposing kids to pornography after she turned on a spyware-infested (school-owned)...

I'll Take One Hot Palin And One Cold Piyush "Bobby" Jindal To Go... Please

Heloise — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:45 EST

Whats an unpopular party to do? Give a party where everyone is invited and not just the rich, the WASP, and the redneck.
You have to admit that the GOP is really the COP, comical old party. I am still laughing. Sarah Palin single-handedly put the “bet” in "you betcha." Conservatives and radio pundits in the past election cycle have deigned to give the Democrat party advice, earning my famous rejoinder “Thanks, but no thanks.” And I...

Book Review: Taking On The System - Rules For Radical Change in a Digital Era by Markos Moulitsas Zúniga

Heloise — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:18:18 EST

A clarion call for this Why Generation, Taking On The System is a well-written how-to tome about grabbing political power.
Kos may be the longest name among politicos both left and right who use the Internet as their medium to network with like-minded individuals. In his third book Taking On The System, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga flexes his political muscle for a book that might also be titled How To Take On The System. In 272 pages Kos, a moniker he acquired from...

The Lisa P. Maxwell Agency's Radical Approach to a Business Web Site

Mark Schannon — Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:01:35 EST

This public relations firm needs to do a lot more website testing before promoting its new online approach.
Blogcritics received an e-mail yesterday from Aneisha Howard, public relations director for Lisa P. Maxwell. As she wrote, this "small creative agency based in Chicago, IL, recently launched a new web site. We feel that the site will be unlike anything you have ever seen and that it has the capabilities of changing the way companies interact...

BC Politics Rocks! Take That!

Mark Schannon — Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:37:37 EST

BC Politics rocks! And that's the truth... sort of.
There were times, many years ago in a galaxy far away, when I was a BC Assistant Politics Editor, that I despaired at the vitriol spilling from the comments on the politics site, infecting the rest of our esteemed BC and threatening its integrity, honor, and decency.You betcha!But in my too-long hiatus, from which I still have not yet fully...

Book Review: Men With Balls - The Professional Athlete's Handbook by Drew Magary

Matthew T. Sussman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:48:50 EDT

If you discover a funnier book about football this year, you somehow got ahold of Eli Manning's diary.
There are numerous signs a part-time blogger has made it. Maybe they are able to quit their job and be a full-time basementeer. Maybe they scoop the mainstream media on a story that gets talked about for months to come. And maybe they just write a book about football and dick jokes.Drew Magary? Congratulations, you're the last of the...

Interview with Iloz Zoc of Zombos Closet of Horror, League of Tana Tea Drinkers, and Blogcritics

Mayra Calvani — Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:35:13 EDT

"Gore for the sake of gore is detrimental to the genre, as are the undying DVD quickies looking to capture our attention and dollars."
Horror fan, blogger and commentator Iloz Zoc is the founder of Zombos Closet of Horror Blog and League of Tana Drinkers. He's also a regular contributor to Blogcritics. In this insightful, fascinating interview, Zoc talks about his blogs, the best and worst horror movies ever made, what makes a scary movie really terrifying, and the...

Give It Away: One Solution To The Book Publishing Blues

Richard Marcus — Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:38:02 EDT

I'm willing to let people read what I've written. Now the question remains - are people going to be willing to read it?
It's been slightly over two years since I finished writing my first novel, The Paths Life Takes. Since that day she has sat quietly in various computer hard drives, on CD data discs, on a floppy disc, and even in a cardboard box awaiting shipping to a publisher. She's been very patient waiting to see if I'll ever help fulfill her...