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Obama turns Facebook fans into delegates

Barack Obama's victory in Iowa was marked by heavy participation by young and first-time caucusers. The San Francisco Chronicle takes note that this may mark the first time that politicians talk about bringing in young voters actually materialized on the ground. The Obama campaign "had...

Tags: Facebook, Campaign, San Francisco Chronicle, MTV, Obama, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-06

License-plate scanners are transforming police work

The suspect: A man had rammed a 12-year-old girl with his car, pulled her inside and tried to sexually assault her. The girl fought back and escaped. The officer: San Jose, Calif., Officer Max Boyer, on routine patrol discovered the car parked last Monday. By Friday, Donald Bachmann, 27,...

Tags: Car, Scanner, San Francisco Chronicle, American Civil Liberties Union, Technology, Productivity, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Outsourcing The News

The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced a 25% cut in its editorial team. Will that mean 25% less news in the already hard news deprived Chronicle? Or will the remaining 75% of Chronicle journalists be working 50% harder to produce the same amount of news?Alternatively, the Chronicle...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Additional Resources

San Francisco Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

San Francisco Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of San Francisco. The current sites include San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, NBC San Francisco - KNTV, ABC San Francisco - KGO, CBS San Francisco - KPIX, FOX San Francisco -...

Tags: Mobile, San Francisco, Martian Technology LLC, San Francisco Local News Free, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-28

SF Bay News 1.0.1 (Mobile)

SF Bay News is an iPhone application that lets you access all of news from around the San Francisco Bay area. Not only can you view the latest headlines, but you can also read the related news articles from within the application. You can also play pod casts created by...

Tags: Mobile, YeoSoft, SF Bay News, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-02

Works of Anthony Trollope. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Scarborough

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Works of Anthony Trollope. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference, Scarborough

Software downloads 2009-09-01

San Francisco Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

San Francisco Local News provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of San Francisco, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites includes San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, NBC San Francisco - KNTV, ABC San...

Tags: Mobile, San Francisco, Martian Technology LLC, San Francisco Local News, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-24

Did crook lure victims with oven door disguised as plasma HDTV?

I know plasmas are becoming popular again, but I didn't realize they were this "hot." According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, con artists are using fake HDTVs to lure marks in store parking lots and then robbing them. There may be nothing new about the technique—crooks have...

Tags: Plasma, Crook, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-22

If FaceBook is a "must-use", where does that leave us?

Yesterday I read with interest that Facebook has become a "must-use" application. The San Francisco Chronicle article noted that As for the marketplace, I suspect that, as eBay came to dominate auctions, and Amazon dominates books, Facebook is about to become the dominant social networking platform....

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Shock Horror 'Social Media': Who Will Save/Train the Children?

An interesting US national poll from Common Sense Media asking 'is social networking changing childhood?' opens up some wider issues. Common sense media suggest their poll... ...illustrates a continuing disconnect between parents and kids when it comes to kids’ digital lives....

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Media, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Make the best out of your photos while traveling

The San Francisco Chronicle's Travel section posted an in-depth guide on basic travel photography. According to the article, Americans will shoot 27 billion photos this year, but "it's also likely, however, that many of those photos give or take a billion will be bad." True, but...

Tags: Photograph, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-06-22

On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, Bing

This can't be any surprise. But we will not forget. According to reports, with the 20th anniversary of Tianamen Square China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft's new Bing search engine on a massive scale. And the repression goes beyond...

Tags: China, Flickr, Twitter, Huffington Post, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

The anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests recalls the courage of the Chinese people and the vicious response of the Chinese government. It also recalls the gutless behavior of Silicon Valley tech companies towards the Chinese government in pursuit of profits rather than morals. Many are guilty...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Government, Vertical Industries, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Will Google Squared make GOOG a better research tool?

Even in the face of Wolfram Alpha, no one will deny that Google is a powerful research tool for our students. However, teasing out truly useful results can be challenging at best from the millions of pages returned by the average search. In response to this, Google revealed...

Tags: Google Inc., Tool, Productivity, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Newspapers as non-profits? Not a bad idea

Newspapers as non-profits? Not a bad ideaWatchdogs of governmentSome of us are old enough to remember when newspapers actually took that responsibility seriously. Now, with one Party in charge of all branches of government and the press, it is not hard to see the end of democracy looming large...

Tags: Vertical industries, Litigation, watchdog, government, bad idea

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

Note to newspapers: I can't read what you don't sell

An off-topic rant about newspapers and how they really seem to be giving up the fight: My morning commute from Silicon Valley to San Francisco today involved a carpool with my wife to her office at Stanford University, where I would pick up an express train into...

Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Citizen Pain: Who Needs Another Electronic Reader?

So today’s the day when reviews are coming in from CNet and Between The Lines on the second edition of Amazon’s Kindle electronic book reader. You decide whether you want to spend $350-plus for a device that lets you, essentially, read one type of publication. The Kindle...

Tags: Hearst Corp., Kindle, E-books, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Green is still Gold (But Beware of the Politics of Gesture)

Foolhardy it may be to go out on a limb here to take on my boss (in this carnation I mean my editor, Larry Dignan) and a force of nature that is my fellow ZDNET blogger Dennis Howlett but I have to disagree with both on the subject of viability of the green market....

Tags: Sustainability, Oracle Corp., Gesture, Dennis, Hugh McLeod, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-02-28

Top Newspaper Web Sites in December 2008

Site Dec 2007 Dec 2008 UA Growth, YTY Top 10 Online Newspapers 34,602 40,093 16 NYTimes.com 17,17 18,187 6 USATODAY.com 9,939 11,420 15 washingtonpost.com 8,478 9,470 12 LA Times 4,607 7,963 73 Wall Street Journal Online 5,409 7,235...

Tags: Newspaper, Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2009-02-03