Subject: Internet

• That Girl Is Top Eight Material

  April 25, 2007

• Down and Dirty Entertainment

  May 31, 2007

• Sex Offenders on MySpace? No Way!

  June 14, 2007

• I Want My MP3

  June 21, 2007

• Miss Pop Rocks: I Can’t Get Enough of Marie Osmond Fainting

  October 29, 2007

• Twitter This

  April 28, 2008

• Facebook Responds to the Texas Attorney General's Office

  May 13, 2008

• Twitter Is Very Important!

  July 14, 2008

• Sole of Houston: Strip Mall Taverns on the Southwest Side

  August 12, 2008

• Miss Pop Rocks: Special Hurricane Ike Edition

  September 19, 2008

• Facebook Lawsuit Has A Houston Connection

  September 30, 2008

• When Online Got Off Base

  Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz

  April 11, 2002

• Three Stooges?

  Plus: Aid for AIDS, No Dogfight, Boys of Brazil

  July 18, 2002

• The Secret World Of Dan Patrick, Via Twitter

  Dan Patrick -- hyperbolic talk-show host, slightly unhinged state senator -- has joined the Twitter world.Normally, that wouldn't be too exciting, as his Twitter page proves ("Getting ready for the 81st Texas Legislature session").But the decision gave his compadres at Lone Star Times the chance to come up with what Patrick should be Twittering, if only he just said whatever came into his mind (Wait, he doesn't?) The result is a pretty funny deal called "Dan's Secret Tweet" and includes som

  December 18, 2008

• Will Blog for (Free) Food?

  It must be an interesting time to own a restaurant. On the one hand you're pummeled by a shrinking economy and rising food costs. On the other hand you're assailed by a growing number of (mostly uncredentialed) food bloggers ready to pounce on even the slightest misstep and proclaim your restaurant an unmitigated failure. Even a few years ago food bloggers wouldn't have registered a blip on a restaurateur's radar. But a funny thing happened on the way to making a dinner reservation. People star

  December 22, 2008

• Tweating Out

  Twitter, the microblogging and social media tool that's become increasingly popular among the technologically hip, both young and old, has literally thousands of applications.  How any one person (or company) uses Twitter is unique unto them.While some people (also called Twitterers or Tweeple) use Twitter to keep in touch with friends or to share useful information, others use it as a business tool or marketing platform.  Still others use it primarily for networking.  Foodies,

  January 6, 2009

• Burger King Urges You to Abandon Your Friends for Whoppers

  I have to say, I wish Burger King's food was better. Because their marketing department is evidently full of interesting people who, unlike other companies who balk at any controversy whatsoever, simply do not care whose feelings get hurt. Burger King has announced the implementation of the Whopper Sacrifice promotion, which is an application you add to your Facebook profile. Once you've added it, for every ten friends you delete, you get a free Whopper. If I liked Whoppers more, I'd call it

  January 9, 2009

• Facebook Hamstrings Whopper Sacrifice Application

  It was easy to guess that Burger King's somewhat mean-spirited Whopper Sacrifice Facebook application was going to draw some kind of fire; less easy to guess was that the fire would be drawn from Facebook itself, because the application, to put it bluntly, worked too well. In the world of Whopper Sacrifice, ten friends de-friended equaled one Whopper. Part of the ingenuity of the Whopper Sacrifice application was that when one de-friended people from one's Facebook, the application sent them a

  January 15, 2009

• A Call for More Honesty in Facebook Status Updates

  I'll admit it...I'm as self-absorbed as the next person when it comes to writing Facebook status updates. I know no one really cares if I'm watching Larry King or filing my nails or whatever, yet for some reason I choose to update my status line constantly. Have you noticed that very few people seem to have negative Facebook status updates? Everyone on Facebook is happy, or looking forward to a new day, or taking a bath, or reading a great novel. The Facebook status line is the new designer

  February 5, 2009

• Follow Friday for Foodies

  The group collective on Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging and social networking platform, has developed a recent tradition called Follow Friday.  Follow Friday is part circle jerk, part honest and helpful advice from your Twitter friends on who to follow if you're new or simply looking to expand your circle of friends and acquaintances.  Every Friday, those who participate in the weekly routine send out a Tweet or two with suggestions of influential, interestin

  February 13, 2009

• A New Way to Crawl

  Lennie Ambrose, events and marketing director at Saint Arnold and @saintarnold on Twitter.Any Houstonian who's fond of beer is familiar with Saint Arnold, our hometown hero microbrewery.  And anyone familiar with Saint Arnold has been on at least one of their famed pub crawls through Rice Village, Galveston, Midtown or any number of other locations (even Austin!). As of late, the pub crawls had become enormous, the hordes of people careening from location to location like a tida

  February 19, 2009

• Changing the Music Industry Bit by Bit

  December 24, 1998

• Dept. Of Good Ideas: Transtar Is Twittering

  Transtar, the umbrella agency that coordinates traffic on Houston roads, is entering the Twitterarium, or whatever the kidz be calling it these days.Go to their main link and you can get individualized Twittering for all of the area's main roads."Twitter is a great way to give travelers the quickest, simplest news about what's going on with the roads they travel most often," Jack Whaley, Director of Houston TranStar, said in a release. "When it's rush hour, getting through an entire traffic upda

  April 7, 2009

• Local Guy's Suit Against Pat Robertson Helped By Racism From Pat Robertson's Students

  New evidence may help a Spring man prove the freedom of expression case he's filed in federal court claiming that Regent University, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in Virginia, unconstitutionally kicked him out of school for posting a picture on the Internet of Robertson scratching his face with his middle finger extended. Former Regent University law student Adam Key made national headlines when, the lawsuit claims, he was banned from classes in 2007 after he posted the picture of Rober

  April 14, 2009

• Musicians on Twitter

  Is the "microblog" Internet phenomenon the next leap forward or just a tweeting waste of time?

  February 12, 2009

• Meiko

  February 5, 2009

• Caught In The Net

  August 21, 2008

• Damming the Streams

  The major labels want the Internet to be as arid as the airwaves

  July 4, 2002

• “Lawndale Has Many Friends”

  Brian Piana creates an entire art installation to gain Top Friend status

  December 6, 2007

• Rev It Up

  Roaring engines, screaming guitars and...Net safety?

  July 13, 2006

• Move Over, MySpace: Not So Fast

  Local musicians aren't ready to write off MySpace just yet

  July 12, 2007

• Move Over, MySpace

  With friends like these...

  July 12, 2007

• SoundExchange Wants to Kill Internet Radio

  On "lost" artists, found money and the murder of free enterprise

  May 17, 2007

• The Upside of MySpace

  How it's changed things for the better

  May 10, 2007

• Podnography

  And you thought those audio files were only used for music

  December 29, 2005

• Electric Avenue

  Is MySpace.com the future of the music business, or just another Web site?

  December 16, 2004

• The Blog Age

  October 28, 2004

• Napster's Spawn

  File-sharing copycats keep free music alive on the Net. The Big Five labels still call it theft.

  January 10, 2002

• Ransom Notes

  Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

  November 9, 2000

• Better Watch What You're Putting On Your Facebook Page

  Allegedly, more people use Facebook than e-mail, and during the last several months, Twitter became a verb. But for Corporate America, that could cause some problems, according to Houston attorney Chris Schaeper. "Twenty years ago, you might be having beers with an old frat buddy from college and have a conversation you probably shouldn't have, but who's going to find out?" Schaeper tells Hair Balls. "With Twitter, now there's a track record. It's out there forever."The problem lies in all those

  May 1, 2009

• Perverts, Beware

  May 28, 2009

• What It's Like To Get Outed On The Blogosphere

  Photo courtest STCLBlevins the BloggerThe famous blogger was on the computer in his mother's basement when he got the news. A rival had uncovered his true identity and would soon reveal it to the world.And so John Blevins gathered his kids and went to lunch.Blevins, a professor at South Texas College of Law in Houston, has used the nom de blog "publius" for more than five years, currently with the popular group site Obsidian Wings. He was back in Kentucky visiting family when he became the cente

  June 12, 2009

• Social Distortion: Every Blog Has Its Day

  Stardate: 1999 (or 02254.5, if you're nasty). Also known as Pretty Much the Stone Age, when talkin' 'bout the internets. Al Gore had barely invented the term "social media," and no one called themselves social media gurus. Yes, those were the good ol' days. Amidst the tumult that climaxed in the dot-com bust, a new species of online content creator was swiftly emerging - the blogger. What'd "blogger" mean way back in the paleolithic past? To the world at large, blogging was a stupid, self-i

  June 15, 2009

• Outed on the Internet: A Houston professor's plight becomes a web phenomenon

  June 25, 2009

• Byte This

  June 18, 2009

• Social Media Smackdown: Facebook vs. LinkedIn

  They tell you landing a job via social media that won't trigger your gag reflex is a piece of cake. They share insider tips and tricks like Carrie and Samantha dishing blowjob techniques over Cosmos. They tell you to keep your nose clean, but if you can't, don't post photos of it online. So when it comes to making those cash money connections, who gives you The Big O? Uh, and "O" stands for "opportunity." Pervert. Euphemisms aside, which social networking site is gonna getcha the green? Whe

  June 26, 2009

• Social Distortion: The End-All, Be-All Cure For Your Social Media Sickness

  You log into Facebook, and you're hit with the sudden pang of 172 unread messages in your inbox, 146 unread updates, 59 event invitations, and a partridge in a pear tree. Your Google Reader is uncomfortably lodged at 1000 unread, and it hasn't been touched in ages, sorta like your sexy bits. You blindly scroll down the Twitter updates to which you subscribe, your bleeding eyes not focusing on anything in particular and nothing at all. Your blog, still blatantly hosted for free on WordPress

  July 3, 2009

• While You Weren't Tweeting: Now With More Harry Potter

  C'mon, 'fess up. You spent early last week camped out in front of the Angelika in your Hogwarts uniform, awaiting the arrival of the new Harry Potter movie in theatres. Then you spent the rest of the week basking in the afterglow of Daniel Radcliffe's smoldering gaze, and engaging in heated discussions online of how the movie deviated wildly from the book, didn't you? Yup. 'Fraid you've been caught. But while you were geekin', the magical technosphere was in dire need of some witchcraft of

  July 20, 2009

• Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs

  Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. I'm Never Full: Although she uses Twitter as her main communication tool these days, Jenny Wang still maintains her blog on occasion. And the exciting announcement this week about the upcoming Bivalve (oyster) Throwdown is her latest post. Read all about it and score tickets whil

  October 29, 2009

• Metro Rolls Out Facebook & Twitter Accounts To Zero Fanfare

  ​In a press release clearly launched from the Stone Age, the Bayou City's Metropolitan Transit Authority (that's Metro, if you're nasty) puffed up its chest and triumphantly declared today that it is "expanding the conversation by adding social media tools Facebook and Twitter to its communication portfolio."Oh goody gumdrops! Yes, folks, that's a bona fide quote, straight from the horse's mouth. We know you're trying to decide whether to yawn or vomit. Just remove your finger from your th

  November 17, 2009