Shark Bitten in Half by Other Shark Show’s Potential of Internet Nature Programming

The nature of the nature documentary business is quite sluggish. Crews post up in rainforests or on towering piles of bat guano for hours, days, or weeks waiting for the perfect shot. I mean look at Planet Earth, probably the most successful nature doc in a long time. It took four years to film and [...]

Digg Ups the Ads

Digg’s advertising has been on the incline of late. It started with the banner ads. Though I was slightly miffed to see them, I was fine with it. Digg gots to get paid too. Next, the fake stories on the front page. Hmm. These are stories that are denoted by faint lines and “sponsored by” [...]

Thank You for Saving the World, Stanislav Petrov.

On Sept. 26, 1983, one man saved the planet. He attributed a heroic action (inaction) to “a feeling in the gut.” He was persecuted for maintaining peace and avoiding a nuclear holocaust. Who is this social pariah? Never before (probably) have nerves of steel and icy veins combined to prolong the existence of mankind. The [...]

Digg iPhone App Awkwardly Confirmed By Kevin Rose

This week the FOWA (Future of Web Apps) convention went down in London. There, two lucky bloggers for the tech sitre, Sofaprat, got to interview Kevin Rose, founder of Digg. Before their recorded interview, Rose let the reporters sneak a peek at the Digg iPhone app, currently in development. Rose certainly did not think these [...]