Digital Age
Comcast Says It Will Offer Super-Fast “Gigabit” Service This Year
Comcast’s Internet service is about to get blazingly fast, Gizmodo reports: In an exciting if suspicious announcement today, Comcast, everybody’s least favorite company, just told […]
Why Do Trolls Especially Hate Women?
If you’re a reasonably well-adjusted person, you probably don’t spend much time in the comments sections of local news stories — maybe not any time at […]
ESPN Unbundles from Cable. Can Comcast Compete?
One thing that’s kept cable from going the way of the music industry in recent years, observers agree, is this: Hulu, Netflix, and other mainstream […]
PhillyVoice.com Unveils Star-Studded List of Contributors
PhillyVoice.com, the nascent online news organization backed by former Inky owner George Norcross and led by his daughter, Lexie, appears to be trying to corner […]
How Do I Cure My Online Rage?
What would I like for Christmas? How about some small bit of my lost humanity? It was a reader (of course) who accidentally let me […]
Philly.com Absorbs Inky, Daily News Sites
Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com are no more. As announced in October, the websites of the city’s two major news sites have been swallowed up by the […]
The Unexpected Thing Google’s Street View Team Saw in Philly
Props to Redditor Iceman705 for this discovery on Google Street View:
Lynne Abraham Declares for Mayor, and the Mummers Played Rocky
Former District Attorney Lynne Abraham just declared her candidacy for mayor. Philly Mag’s Patrick Kerkstra was there and live-tweeted the announcement: Abraham sends message w/ […]
Why Hunt for Deer When They’re Lying All Over the Road?
Sunday, on our way home from a trip to upstate New York, my husband and I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts. When we came back out […]
Philly Voice Poaches Kempski, Tevis From IGM
Jimmy Kempski, Philly.com’s popular Eagles blogger, is joining the staff of PhillyVoice.com, George Norcross’s forthcoming startup online news source. Kempski is not the only new […]
Almost Nobody Believes Comcast on Net Neutrality. Why?
Comcast wants you to know it really, really believes in net neutrality*. But almost nobody on the Internet believes them. Why is that? *For a […]
(Updated) Over Comcast’s Objections, Obama Urges FCC to Reclassify Internet
[Update 12:20 p.m.] Comcast has issued a response to the president’s announcement, from Executive Vice President David Cohen: “Comcast fully embraces the open Internet principles […]
In Praise of Surveillance Cameras
So: Thank God for our dystopian Orwellian future, eh? I kid — kind of. But we’re all glad that Carlesha Freeland-Gaither is alive and well […]
Interview: Jim MacMillan of GunCrisis.org
GunCrisis.org announced this week it is “curtailing” its operations due to funding shortfall. While the curtailed site will still offer the occasional reports and analysis, […]
Here Are the Philadelphians Who Made SI’s “Twitter 100” List
Sports Illustrated has published its list of the Top 100 Twitter users in sports — and the list has a few Philadelphia entries: