Michael Silence notes that Sen. Jim Tracy is trying to pass legislation that would make it illegal to read or send text messages while driving. These nanny state laws treat symptoms and not problems. My comment on No Silence Here: We don’t need a nanny state! We need better education. IF we wo...

For those listeners of the Spark Minute on Green 960 or 910 KNEW in San Francisco, you’ve found the summary of all the follow up information and reports you heard on air for the week of 3/9/09. The number one spot for prostitution: Nevada or Craigslist? The market for used games, online and offlin...

In art exhibition opening in the Netherlands will allow people to call a telephone number designated for God - but they will have to leave a message, according to the BBC. Dubbed God's Hotline, it aims to focus attention on changes to the ways Dutch people perceive religion. Dutch artist Johan van d...

Today I realised that the only thing more annoying to me are men that insist on sending text messages EVEN AFTER BEING TOLD THAT TEXT MESSAGES ARE NOT WELCOME are the ones that ask me to send them a picture.Today, for instance, I was walking along We...

Filed under: Cell Phones Christians and Catholics traditionally observe Lent, the approximately 40-day period between Ash Wednesday and Easter, by praying frequently and fasting from certain types of food. Abstaining from food -- and vices such as drinking and smoking -- is intended to help the beli...

Over a year ago, I talked about a Skype/Spinvox deal and I was admittedly lukewarm to the idea. I have been critical of Skype's Voicemail Strategy (VM) and I think for good reason. Skype's VM service is proprietary and closed, this severely limits its usefulness, and for some reason Skype refuses to...

Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS shortcode, but until today only US Tweeters could receive SMS messages on their mobile. Not anymore! After pulling the plug on outbound SMS for Canadian users in November of last year, Twitter is happy to welcome them back into the fold through a partne...

Filed under: Cell Phones digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/02/18/teen-arrested-for-texting-in-class-hides-cell-phone-in-butt/'; While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help any...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Computers Living in the connected age -- where things like Twitter and text messaging are an accepted part of life -- is great. We're able to pass information quickly across vast distances to large amounts of people. There is the inevitable downside, though; once you get th...

The format for last Thursday's show was pretty open. First on the agender was SEO Detlev Johnson having a sex change and showing up at SMX west as a woman. This has to be the WTF moment of the search engine industry.  Followed by his ex-wife Heather Loyd Martin feeling the awkward moment of the yea...