Subject: Internet

• Whither MySpace?

  August 16, 2006

• An Outing That Might Out Our Bloggers

  April 16, 2007

• Top Three YouTube Music Videos Are of a Topeka Guy

  May 2, 2007

• This Murderer Needs a Friend

  May 21, 2007

• Local Blogroll

  May 29, 2007

• MySpace Remembers ACE, This Year's 39th Homicide Victim

  June 7, 2007

• Hall's MySpace Page, Part 2

  June 8, 2007

• Maximo Park and the Cribs at the Record Bar

  July 19, 2007

• Kansas City: Small But Eager

  July 23, 2007

• New Local Jazz Blog Shows Promise

  July 25, 2007

• New Magic from Bruce Springsteen

  August 29, 2007

• Now's Your Chance: Remix Radiohead

  April 1, 2008

• Daily Briefs in Brief: The 2008 Sparkle Olympiad

  August 8, 2008

• The Download Extra: New Rogue Wave MP3s

  October 6, 2008

• TIF Commission meeting raises question of Internet access for public library patrons

  February 17, 2000

• Nature versus nurture versus Napster

  June 29, 2000

• Letters

  August 10, 2000

• Missouri Matters: Missouri politics' Facebook

  Forget Facebook and MySpace, Missouri political junkies. Scooter Jackson, the man behind the not-at-all-Republican Missouri Political News Service, has started a social networking site for Missouri politicos called Missouri Matters. So far, 163 people have signed up. Hey, who wouldn't want to be friends with Matt Blunt's former chief-of-staff Ed Martin (pictured)? Except for maybe, Scott Eckersley. But at least that whole e-mail lawsuit is finally settled.

  January 6, 2009

• Another argument for thrift store shopping

  I got a text message on New Year's Eve from a friend who showed up to a party wearing the same dress as another friend. The matchy-matchy event was "a disaster," according to the text, which I thought was a pretty ridiculous exaggeration. Apparently I underestimated a serious matter, because some chick named Sacha Nana (really?) in Fairway created a whole Web site about it, called That'sMyDress.

  January 22, 2009

• Clara Cannucciari: 93 and cooking

  I'm a little late on this one. I found Clara on Just Me and since it's right down Fat City's aisle I couldn't pass on the 93-year-old's sage advice and Great Depression recipes.Clara Cannucciari was a sprightly 91 years old when she started making videos with her great-grandson, Christopher Cannucciari, who posted them on YouTube. Each video follows the same format: Clara makes a depression-era dish like pasta and peas or egg-drop soup, and talks about what it was like living through the Great D

  January 23, 2009

• FDA lurves new media

  Unless I still get salmonella from a Clif bar or there's another outbreak, I promise this will be my last post on the peanut butter panic of 2009. Partly because I'm thinking about switching off of peanut butter to Vegemite (oh wait!) and partly because the FDA and CDC are releasing enough gadgets to make Q of the James Bond films happy. First there are the CDC's badges seen below. You place the code for these badges on your social Web sites like Facebook and MySpace to "let your friends know th

  February 5, 2009

• Best Local Blog

  October 7, 2004

• Best Media Blog

  October 7, 2004

• Best Reason to Buy 2005 Royals Season Tickets

  October 7, 2004

• The Download

  November 3, 2005

• At Fort Leavenworth, officers are marching on a new target: the blogosphere

  February 5, 2009

• Set to make millions with their YouTube-beating technology, the upstarts in Lifted Logic found a better market for their talents

  January 29, 2009

• Facebooked

  The Star’s wanna-be Hemingway enters the digital age. Will you be his friend?

  September 11, 2008

• Use Your Imagination

  May 15, 2008

• Youthful Vigor

  November 8, 2007

• Charles S. McVey

  Modern Living
  (self-released)

  November 1, 2007

• Stream On

  Royalty hikes shouldn’t dam Web radio’s flow into the future.

  May 10, 2007

• No Static at All

  Local webcasters offer alternatives to the airwaves.

  April 19, 2007

• The Shins

  February 8, 2007

• Downloads

  Joe Good

  January 26, 2006

• Mayor Kay's MySpace page

  January 12, 2006

• What's the 411?

  Rob Walch brings podcasting to the people.

  August 11, 2005

• Peer Pressure

  Last year, we found out who our true Friendsters were.

  January 1, 2004

• When Online Got Off Base

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

  April 11, 2002

• Ransom Notes

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

  November 9, 2000

• Kids in America

  Barnstorming overseas has earned the Get Up Kids plenty of new fans, but the group looks forward to seeing some familiar faces.

  August 31, 2000

• 'Uncle' Ed gets freaky on YouTube

  Here's a helluva find by Independence's newest and best blogger Midtown Miscreant: former children's show host "Uncle" Ed Muscare's bizarre YouTube page. Videos like this: There are many more videos of "Uncle" Ed on YouTube, and he's looking a little lonely. Maybe it's because, as the Miscreant points out, "Uncle" Ed is a registered sex offender in Florida. He's a long way from joking around with Cloris Leachman.

  April 28, 2009

• Are Ringtone Sales Public Performances?

  In the past few days, both the LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle published pieces wherein they discuss recent moves by ASCAP and other music publishers to try and gather even more money from ringtone downloads. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunnicula/ / CC BY-ND 2.0Essentially, the argument made by the music publishing agencies is that songwriters are due two payments for ringtones. See, when ringtones are downloaded, then that's payment #1. The second payment comes into effect because the ri

  July 6, 2009

• Republic Tigers do Sinatra on iTunes exclusive tribute

  What have you done for Ol' Blue Eyes lately? Me, I tried to watch Guys & Dolls over the weekend. (Fell asleep.) Kansas City's Republic Tigers, on the other hand, sent Frank Sinatra an epic, trance-inducing, acoustic-layered, electronic-lathered valentine via the July 7 iTunes release of Sinatra: His Way, Our Way, a compilation of contemporary artists covering songs that the Chairman made famous. The Tigers' contribution: "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)," originally composed by Mitch Leigh an

  July 8, 2009

• Awesomely Bad Lyrics

  A new blog launched last month that could, quite honestly, be the new Look At This Fucking Hipster or Stuff White People Like. It is simply and elegantly entitled Awesomely Bad Lyrics, and that is its focus. The posts follow a basic format: line-by-line (or couplet-by-couplet) analysis and mockery of songs. Awesomely Bad Lyrics looks to be primarily focusing on classic rock, although Live's "The Dolphin's Cry" has been roundly ridiculed as well. The blog's author states that the primary intent

  July 22, 2009

• A step backwards for General Caldwell's mil-blogging plans?

  Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell​A story on Wired's website a week ago outlined how a Department of Defense "warning order" solicited feedback on a potential ban on the use of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook by military personnel. Such a ban seemingly would fly in the face of efforts by Lt.General William B. Caldwell, who oversees the Army's Command and General Staff College on the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, Missouri. Caldwell recently ordered every officer at

  August 7, 2009

• President talks health care to Congress -- Rightbloggers make it all about a guy named Joe

  ​ Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.Last week the President delivered a health-care speech to a joint session of Congress. The most newsworthy part of the event, from the rightblogger perspective, was Rep. Joe Wilson's cry of "You lie" during a section having to do with coverage of illegal immigrants. (Whether the still-fluid health-care reform plan will cover illegals is a matter of debate, whi

  September 14, 2009

• Rightbloggers defend America against dangerous Nobel Peace Prize

  ​Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.This week Time magazine had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration's alleged realization that it needed to strike back at "what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims..." You have to wonder what took them so long -- and whether such a counter-attack could possibly do any good.As we've shown here ceaselessly, the rightblogge

  October 12, 2009

• Flaming Lips cover Dark Side of the Moon

  When I interviewed Kliph Scurlock a couple of weeks ago, the Flaming Lips drummer talked at length about a very exciting project the band was putting the finishing touches on: a full cover version of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. That news excited me easily as much as the release new Lips studio album, Embryonic.​ A few days after the interview, though, Scurlock contacted me and politely asked that I not mention anything about the DSOTM project. Originally planned to accompany the r

  October 19, 2009

• Rightbloggers get a scalp, and perhaps a party, in NY-23

  ​ On the weekend before a nationally-covered upstate New York Congressional election, the Republican candidate endorsed the Democratic candidate. This is a rarity in American politics, if not a first.Rightbloggers played a key role in this historical achievement. Let's step back several weeks and see what happened.Once upon a time Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was running for the 23rd Congressional District seat, which Republican John McHugh recently abandoned to serve as Obama's Secret

  November 2, 2009