Robert Scoble, a top hi-tech blogger, recently asked his readers, “Are you ready for virtual actors in movies?” For me, the answer is no. I do occasionally enjoy watching a cartoon, like The Simpsons, or a claymation production, like Wallace and Gromit. However, in general I’d rather see real actors instead of computer generated faces [...]
Twitter is a service where people send frequent, often meaningless, text messages to their followers. The service has suffered some bad news in the press recently. First, some high-profile accounts, including Barack Obama’s, were recently hacked. Mike Arrington reports on his Techcrunch.com site: …someone hacking into Twitter’s internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile [...]
I posted earlier about how to obtain coupons for digital converter boxes. Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports that President Obama wants to delay the conversion: …President-elect Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a bill delaying the transition by three months. Lawmakers are weighing whether to push back the scheduled Feb. 17 transition [...]
President-elect Barack Obama and VP-elect Joe Biden were not the only ones traveling to Washington DC by rail this weekend. Markus Garner wrote an article for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about citizens riding the Amtrak Crescent to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration: “I thought it was neat that Barack Obama was riding the train” to [...]
I did not see the train in person, but the crowds turned out to see the Amtrak special carrying President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden to their inauguration in Washington, D.C. The train departed Philadelphia, PA with Obama and stopped in Wilmington, DE to pick up Biden. In Wilmington, Obama gave a speech [...]