Google Books released an incredibly interesting time-waster research tool that can graph the use of any word in six language since 1500 from some 500 million digitized books, as I reported this morning for Technically Philly. While, as showed there, lots of interesting Philadelphia-related graphs exist, I admit that even more broad conversation-worthy displays exist. [...]

After a few months since my first appearance on Carole’s Technology Corner, an hour-long Wednesday radio show on 900 AM WURD, I was asked back tonight, focusing largely on a collaboration of Philadelphians pursuing Google money for a super high-speed broadband network. The fill-in host was James Cartwright, a former IT specialist for the City [...]

I don’t want to repeat this anymore, so let me direct you elsewhere. I got an e-mail from a young aspiring journalist, still in high school and already coming to the questions I just started coming upon late in college. Her question: how do you buy spaces on a google seerch? Hey, even she will [...]

In the late 1990s, a host of Web sites democratized the Internet, giving the average Internet-user the chance to have his own online home. In 2003, MySpace used the model and brought in a new age of social networking. Last week I posted that MySpace is on the way out, and briefly mentioned that WordPress [...]

Updated 6/27/10 @ 8:50 p.m.: Added additional Gmail improvement suggestions Yeah, we’re all on Google’s bird. It may be a phenomenon, financially and socially, but I still have my complaints. I’m sure you do too (even if you just blame them for killing newspapers, like the French do.) As Google applications have grown in popularity [...]

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As a young, aspiring journalist, I want to know what it is I need to have, what I need to know and what I need to learn. I’ve spoken to some friends, colleagues and with a few professional internships in my past, I think I am ready to fill the vaccum. What needs to be [...]

I recommend an occasional IV for everyone. Yes, the Internet vacation is a necessity. Through the magic of forward posting on this site, RSS feeds of this blog on all my social utilities and a reckless abandon when it comes to e-mail, I can do that with some regularity now that I am in between my post-graduate internship and an [...]

A photo of an infant clutching a beer is currently paired with a story of mine on Google News, as seen above. Google’s news aggregation tool couples top ranked news stories with photos from related stories that are similarly rated. So, while my story on college presidents calling for a dialogue on underage drinking ran [...]