Quick - you’ve got a music file that someone (a collaborator, a client, a friend) needs to hear. How do you send it to them? It seems countless Web entrepreneurs have new ways for sharing media - there are online Flash-based music editing applications, social networks, elaborate MySpace and Fa...

Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

The French attempt to pass the world's toughest "graduated response" law against P2P file-sharers has been en retard for months. But the negotiations are finally over, the "Création et Internet" bill has been drafted, and today it finally came up before the National Assembly for debate. Despite fur...

 I have been reminded of my friends down on the other side of the world while out shopping in the northern hemisphere. Proving that the other side of the planet can be a strange strange place indeed. The first time was when I was in Germany. I remember Eggy once telling me that I should get ye...

News broadcasts just love to talk about Jesus. In a quirky, mocking way! Mostly their coverage is limited to people who find Jesus (and sometimes Mary) in various items. Sandwiches, cats, lampposts, etc. A compilation: Note that these segments always seem to come at the end of the broadcast, when pe...

A lot of "buzz" has been going on about Skittles "homepage redesign" For those of you who've been spared from the tempest in a teapot, essentially Skittles decided to go all Modernista! (an agency that made Wikipedia their homepage; irked Wikipedia purists and as you can see,...

A lot of "buzz" has been going on about Skittles "homepage redesign" For those of you who've been spared from the tempest in a teapot, essentially Skittles decided to go all Modernista! (an agency that made Wikipedia their homepage; irked Wikipedia purists and as you can see, became a little too tra...

Sometimes back we talked on how to find biggest folder of file size in windows but its bit of manual process and needs to be done when you really want to drill down whats occupying space on your hard disk.  Not for vista but at least for the previous version there is a solution, called as Folder Si...

Windows only: You've got a hard drive filled with media, but no idea what you want to watch or listen to next. Pick Me produces a list of random files for you to choose from. Pick Me is a really, truly tiny application (about 122k) with a singular function. You point Pick Me at a directory and it re...

If you got a large hard drive with all kind of multimedia files you might sometimes need someone else to tell you what to watch or listen to. We all have this moments of indecision where to much choice can make it harder to make a decision. Shall I watch 24, Lost or The IT Crowd? Do I want to listen...