I hadn’t heard of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) or the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (Protect-IP Act or PIPA) until an email from Demand Progress showed up in my inbox. Since I hadn’t received any politicking emails in a long time, I became interested when I read that the PIPA …
On December 7 at 9:30am, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by the British police on accusations of sex crimes. This apparently had “nothing to do” with Wikileaks. Hold on for a minute. Consider the popularity, or should I say infamy, of Mr. Assange during the past 3 months or so. It began with the giant leak of Afghan war …
This just shocked me. This was pretty obvious from the statistics of his sales after the free weekend, but it's official: Notch, the developer of Minecraft, is a multi-millionaire. This is from money coming from no other source than $14 per-person purchases of the Minecraft alpha. That is to say, he's made more by selling the pre-pre-release version of his …
Well, I’ve been waiting for what seems forever, but my preview of the new Twitter has finally come. I absolutely love the aesthetics of the new Twitter! Here’s some of my favorite new features: [slideshow]
Yes! This is what I’ve been waiting for! You may have noticed a change to your stat charts a couple of weeks ago. We ditched Flash in place of a more robust charting library called Flot. If you didn't notice, go check it out because you can view all of the new charts with modern browsers including mobile devices such …