[2006-02-28] President Bush Hails Alternative Media The various blogs, websites, and radio shows supportive of the President and his Administration's agenda have given George W. Bush an edge against a frequently hostile mainstream media. [2006-02-28] Sopranos Google Maps Mashup One of the sessions that I covered over at Search Engine Roundtable was Rich Media and Video Ads where speaker Ian Schafer of Deep Focus previewed the Sopranos Google Maps mashup where you can view show episodes and other details by their location. [2006-02-28] Check this out: Virtual Earth Streetlevel Remember how A9 took a car with a few cameras on it down streets of major cities and let you see what the storefront looked like at a particular address? [2006-02-28] Nike Basketball Launches a Blog One of my readers writes in that Nike has launched a basketball weblog! [2006-02-24] The MySpace Mirage With 50 million registered users, MySpace should be one of the most powerful online communities on the Internet; but many of those users register and depart, to never be seen again. [2006-02-24] Jeeves Retirement Video We promise, Jeeves is retiring, he's just taking his time. [2006-02-22] Technorati Has Its Favorites A new feature on the Technorati blog search site lets users dub blogs as Favorites; users can track those blogs for updates and share those Favorites with others. [2006-02-21] Your Favorite Google Employee Blog? There have been a lot of official Google blogs and some not so official, yet they all tend to focus purely on the business-end of the company. [2006-02-21] Ask Jeeves Butler Offers One Last Hidden Gag Are you a fan of easter eggs? Not the chocolate kind, but the kind hidden away in web sites or software. [2006-02-19] Imagine if Chevron Had Used a Blog Instead Listening this morning to a BBC World Service radio interview with Peter Robertson, vice-chairman of the Chevron oil company, I was struck in particular by his commentary about a website where the public can join Chevron in an online discussion about the future of energy. [2006-02-17] Search Censors Can't Swat A Sparrow One Chinese blogger stays on the move, uses multiple blogs, and says the demand for non-corrupt political officials is the real foe of censorship. [2006-02-17] Track The Sopranos With Google Maps In ten days, HBO plans to go live with a Google Maps mashup that will help viewers track the actions on the Sopranos. [2006-02-16] When Lawyers Attack With Email The summary - a young lawyer applies for a position with a firm, which extends an offer, then cuts the offered salary; the young lawyer fires off an email declining the position, after which the fun really began. [2006-02-16] Sergey Smokes Larry In Hotties Competition Valleywag is running "Valleywag Hotties", a competition asking who the hottest man in geekdom is. [2006-02-13] PostSecret Puts Hearts On Museum Display The secret-on-a-postcard collection website has a show planned for St. Valentine's Day, featuring over one-hundred never before seen cards on display. [2006-02-13] Get SimplyFired Over Love The SimplyFired website provides ten tips on interoffice dating, but for those whose office amore turned into nothing less than a disaster, a trip for two to Las Vegas awaits the pathetic paramour with the best bliss blow-up story. [2006-02-13] Googlepark is Caught in Spaghetti Code Jamie, you've done it again. You've caused me to spit Diet Coke all over my monitor. [2006-02-12] Danny Sullivan Good Humor Danny lays down the vocals, in this tryout for American idol promotion for WebmasterRadio.fm. Absolutely hilarious! [2006-02-10] WSJ, EFF Seething Over Blogs, Google A sense of general unhappiness pervaded over a couple of issues, with the Wall Street Journal hinting at A-list blog types not fully disclosing their relationships with startups while the Electronic Frontier Foundation blasted Google's Desktop 3 for its potential privacy threats. [2006-02-10] Beat Google At Tic Tac Toe, Feel Good For Once Google's latest Sidebar comes with a little game, just like every good operating system, in this case Tic Tac Toe. [2006-02-09] Touring Turin For The Olympics Google has added high-resolution imagery of Turin, Italy, to Google Earth and Google Local, so you can see lots of interesting terrain around the Olympic Games. [2006-02-08] Top MSN Messenger Apps Microsoft ran a competition for MSN Messenger (soon to be WLM) applications at worldsbestapp.com. [2006-02-07] Another CommentTracker Released Last Week Did you hear that MyComments was released last week? Nope? Weird. [2006-02-06] Music Video Using Google Earth British DJ Flavorjenkins wants a job at Google, so to prove he deserves it, he's showing off a music video he made in Google Earth. [2006-02-06] More Fans Seek Movie Reviews Online Instead of waiting to pick up a copy of the Friday newspaper to read what critics have to say about new releases at the theater, fans have moved their attention online. [2006-02-06] Google Choose Your Own Adventure Game Philipp has made a game he calls "The Google Adventure", a choose-your-way text game. [2006-02-02] What if Google Made Cola? It seems that just about any Google rumor is valid, even when the company denies it. [2006-02-02] If Google Made Cola… Okay, ladies and gents, time to put on your thinking caps. Andy Beal asks, "What if Google made cola?" and asks for opinions on it. Submit it to the Search Engine Roundtable forum or comment below. [2006-02-02] Wilt’s 100 On Google Video Google Video now has Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point performance. Or rather, they have the audio of the fourth quarter. For $3.95. Uh, a bit much? [2006-02-02] Valleywag Debuts From Gawker Media After Nick Denton enticed Nick Douglas away from Blogebrity, it was learned that Douglas would be the scribe behind the then-unnamed Silicon Valley outpost of Denton's Gawker empire. [2006-02-02] cNet Uses Google Earth Imagery in NFL Contest cNet (news.com) has come up with another clever contest using imagery from Google Earth.. funny, I could have sworn that clipping and reposting images from Google Earth on a commercial website was against the terms of use?? [2006-02-01] The Woes Of Tech Billionaires Bill Gates' personal fortune overtaxed the IRS tax computers, while Larry Ellison's accountant fusses at him for maxing out a $1 billion credit limit. [2006-02-01] The Pizza Man Knows Everything! John Battelle links to this scary/thought-provoking/it-could-happen Flash video on the ACLU's website showing a world where any business you call can know pretty much anything about you.