Archive for June 27th, 2007

Will Sullivan officially elevated to pundit status. Demands for hefty consulting fees to follow? »

By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in newspapers | 3 Comments

Colleague Will Sullivan does the Q&A thing over at the Innovation in College Media blog, and reveals that he currently subscribes to 986 RSS feeds, which is TOTALLY INSANE. And to think Scoble gets all the attention for his paltry 622 subscriptions. Seriously, though, if Will tops 1,000 feeds I’m going to kidnap the guy [...]

If a tree fails to download in the forest due the server timing out … »

By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in whinging | 0 Comments

Put this in your Philosophy 101 pipe and smoke it: If bandwidth at your office is so choked by co-workers watching Possessed Demon Cat on YouTube and bidding on Bob Dylan memorabilia on eBay that normally fast-loading web sites time out or are rendered as unstyled HTML, and even the site that tests your bandwidth [...]

Florida’s superiority in the field of weird news remains unchallenged »

By William M. Hartnett on Jun 27, 2007 in newspapers, oddities | 0 Comments

What an extraordinary week it’s been for strange news on the cops beat ’round my way. Consider the following five stories from Paul Quinlan, The Post’s new St. Lucie County cops reporter, and Allyson Bird, who just left the same job and now works in the north Palm Beach County office.

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