Subject: Internet

• P-Town Provincialism 101

  December 28, 2006

• Time flies when you're blogging

  January 8, 2007

• It Came from YouTube: MC Bener One represents the PHX

  June 4, 2008

• The new Metallica album leaks onto the Internet; singles available for download

  September 3, 2008

• Eddie Recommends: What to do with three bucks

  September 15, 2008

• Missing Links

  Tempe council challengers seek access to city's popular Web site

  December 4, 1997

• The Top 50 Donors

  November 25, 1999

• Abigail Williams

  Melodic possession

  December 29, 2005

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 29, 2009

  January 29, 2009

• Barack Obama to Take Fireside Chats into the 21st Century with Weekly YouTube Clips

  President-Elect Barack Obama is showing his social savvy in the Digital Age. As reported in The Washington Post last week, Obama not only put his weekly Democratic address on YouTube last Saturday, but plans to regularly post online Q&A videos and interviews both at his Web site, change.gov, and on the popular video Web site, YouTube. The next step, say political observers and YouTube head of news and politics, Steve Grove, is an Internet video version of the "fireside chats" first popularized on radio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944.

  November 18, 2008

• Alice Lara, Newly Elected County Health Care Board Member, Won't Reveal Identity of Interviewer

  Maybe she wrote the softball questions herself. It is also no stretch to imagine that either her boss or someone doing the bidding of her boss wrote them.

  November 19, 2008

• Shaq is Really on Twitter, and He’s Following My Mom

  Twitter is a social networking site where people send updates from their computers and cell phones about what they’re doing and where they are at any given moment. There have been plenty of faux accounts where people have posed as celebrities (there was a guy pretending to be Stephen Colbert early this year), so when I heard that basketball superstar Shaquille O’Neal had an account as “The Real Shaq,” I was skeptical.

  November 20, 2008

• Shaq and the Suns Give Game Tickets Away on Twitter

  Yesterday, we reported that Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O’Neal had an account on Twitter, a social networking site where users post updates about their activities. Now Shaq, along with Phoenix Suns Digital Media & Research Director A. Jo. Martin are giving away Suns tickets via Twitter, and Shaq has actually requested to meet certain Twitter users in person.

  November 21, 2008

• Phunk Junkeez to Release Live Album in Spring

  The Phunk Junkeez announced on their MySpace page that they will release a new live album sometime this spring. The disc, a follow-up to 2007's "Hydro Phonic," will feature new and unreleased tracks from the local high-energy rap/rock band. The group recently posted "Come to Party," a new track, on their MySpace page from their latest disc.

  January 23, 2009

• Jimmy Eat World Is on Twitter

  Hey, Tweeps! One of Arizona's finest, Jimmy Eat World, is on Twitter. The band is joining the ranks of popular local groups such as The Loveblisters, Miniature Tigers, and The Maine who use the social-networking site to Tweet about band news, share fun anecdotes, and photos in 140 characters or fewer. And the band already has 2,552 followers. Some of their latest tweets: Today: Happy Birthday to Ricky Burch! 34! The eldest member of the band. Earlier today: Sorry for everyone who is ticketless

  February 5, 2009

• Facebook Will Revamp Web Site Terms Due To Public Outcry

  After a mass backlash from its users, Facebook is trying to make nice after the Consumerist posted an item stating that the social networking Web site owns everything its users upload, even after deleting their profiles. The site will revert back to its old terms of use, according to a blog post by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday. Zuckerberg stated on the company blog that the site will revise their terms to clarify some parts for its users. "Many of us at Facebook spent most

  February 18, 2009

• Shaq Meets Fans at 5 & Diner in Phoenix Through Twitter

  As we reported on this blog back in November, Suns star Shaquille O'Neal's on Twitter, the "micro-blogging" site where users can post short messages on the Internet (through computers or their cell phones) that detail what they're doing at any given moment. (For example, Shaq Twittered on January 16 at 10:57 p.m.: "I cant sleep gotta get 2 walmart").  But it was this Twitter from Shaq last Thursday that really caught the attention of Twitter users in Phoenix: "Im at 5 n diner n phoenix."

  February 23, 2009

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Impersonator Posts Funny Updates on Twitter

  Faux Joe captured on screen.   There's no way it can be the real Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Twitter -- we doubt he's anywhere near tech-savvy enough to micro-blog on a social networking site with applications like "Twitterfox" and "Twim," and the Twitter updates he's been posting are way too funny to come from a guy who's perpetually scowling and grumbling. But somebody has opened a Twitter account as Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claiming on the page that he's "proudly keeping watch over the gr

  February 25, 2009

• Phoenix Suns' Twitter Takeover Continues With a Suns Tweets Web Site

  Sunstweets.com gathers together all Twitter updates related to the Suns. The Phoenix Suns have built a presence on social networking site Twitter, and now some local Twitterers and Suns fans are helping to bring Suns players and fans together via a site called sunstweets.com. Several months ago, the Planet Orange presence on Twitter was started by Amy Jo Martin, Director of Digital Media and Research for the Suns, and Suns Public Relations Manager Krystal Temple. Soon after, they recruite

  February 27, 2009

• iPhone Users Test AT&T at SxSW

  The music portion of SxSW starts today, but the interactive portion finished yesterday. One of the big stories out of interactive this past weekend was how ill-prepared AT&T was for the influx of iPhone-wielding hipsters and geeks descending on Austin. Tens of thousands of attendees are using their phones far more than usual to stay in touch with everyone else at the conference, meet up with co-workers and do the sort of networking that people who go to this kind of industry event do. Als

  March 18, 2009

• A New Way to Tell Who Was Buzzing at SxSW

  If you are like most people reading about SxSW on every blog out there, it can be a bit overwhelming. But that is nothing compared to how overwhelming it can be to actually be at a festival where 300 bands are playing at every minute (how many stages does Coachella or EdgeFest have going at any one time? Three? Four? SxSW has HUNDREDS at any moment). Well, the people over at Digital Music News came up with a way to see who really was creating a buzz at the festival this year. Twitter. They searc

  March 23, 2009

• Groove Candy Lands at Doc's Place

  Less than a week after getting booted from the now-extinct Lyte Lounge & Bistro, Wednesday night hip-hop throwdown Groove Candy will take up residence at CenPho restaurant/jazz spot Doc's Place starting on April 8. Power 98.3 mid-day jock Karlie Hustle, who hosts the weekly event, made the announcement over her Twitter account tonight. Per my post from yesterday (as well as food critic Michele Laudig's dispatch from earlier this evening over on Chow Bella), Lyte closed up shop last we

  March 31, 2009

• Pete Wentz is in Phoenix and Giving Out Fall Out Boy Tickets on Twitter

  It looks like some of Fall Out Boy - bassist and band sound piece Pete Wentz - have arrived in the Valley early. Wentz has been twittering about being in Phoenix on his page (Pete Wentz), noting that baby Bronx is with him, which means wife Ashlee Simpson - whose uncle is owner of the Arizona-chain Blue Agave restaurants - is most likely in town, too. "Phoenix, AZ: Lots of ocean front property. Also, no ocean," he tweeted earlier today. The bass player and FOB song writer gave away some spe

  April 2, 2009

• Sony Ruins eMusic's Indie Credibility, Raises Rates

  eMusic adds Sony and pisses off its indie rock-savvy clienteleThese troubling financial times call for belt-tightening across American society. We all know what's going on with the auto industry, and the record industry is not safe from this recession. As announced Monday, online music retailer eMusic -- one of the largest on the web -- made a deal with Sony Music Entertainment to feature Sony Music tracks through their service. eMusic, a New York-based company, has some 400,000 subscribers, gen

  June 3, 2009

• The Maine Achieved National Success Thanks to Twitter, MySpace, and Buzznet

  February 5, 2009

• People of Pixels

  October 9, 2008

• Nerdstock

  KoL game boys invade Tempe

  September 25, 2008

• Andrew Thomas, Maricopa County's top prosecutor, burnishes his . . . Wikipedia page?

  February 28, 2008

• Cyberspace Invaders

  County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

  December 20, 2007

• The Yoda of 9/11

  August 9, 2007

• Move Over, MySpace

  Friends like these

  June 28, 2007

• Everyone Gets a Deal!

  The son of Napster moves to sign every unsigned band on Earth

  March 22, 2007

• Jack's Mannequin

  See you at the Rec Center

  January 25, 2007

• Streaming Consciousness

  Wickenburg's KBSZ brings real Mayberry radio to the Web

  November 10, 2005

• Legal Love

  Getting the cream for free

  April 21, 2005

• Feed Your Head!

  How to get the most out of vlogging and podcasting

  March 24, 2005

• The ME Show

  See me, hear me, feel me, fund me! Are vlogging and podcasting the ultimate slacker careers?

  March 24, 2005

• Electric Avenue

  MySpace Music is virtual community of artists, fans

  December 9, 2004

• Art for Pete's Sake

  The downtown arts scene is thriving. And Peter Petrisko is stifling a yawn.

  November 6, 2003

• Against All Odds

  Two local promoters come together; Kazaa cooks up response to the majors

  February 20, 2003

• When Online Got Off Base

  Or: How Mark Cuban would have and could have saved the music biz

  April 11, 2002

• Ransom Notes

  Can one man persuade millions of people to pay for their 'free' music?

  November 16, 2000

• Ransom Notes

  Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their 'free' music?

  November 9, 2000

• Pirates of the Cyberspace

  Music, money and mayhem clog MP3 download sites

  May 11, 2000

• Sports Fight

  ESPN battles Phoenix webmaster over domain name

  February 10, 2000

• East Valley Tribune Web Site Back in Action Spotty After Sunday's Domain Name Foul-Up

    The East Valley Tribune web site displayed local news and advertisements again after about 12 hours of near-dormancy on Sunday due to a domain name screw-up. Evidence points to the explanation that someone at the Tribune or Freedom Communications, the Trib's parent company, forgot to renew the eastvalleytribune.com domain name before it expired on Saturday. In other words, a major "whoops." As we reported yesterday morning, the apparent mistake caused the Trib's Web site to

  April 20, 2009

• Meghan McCain Calls (Faux) Joe Arpaio a "Twitter Creep" Just Like Karl Rove (w/Update)

  from WikimediaCommons Sheriff Joe's keeping watch on Meghan McCain via Twitter... UPDATE: Sadly, Meghan McCain's "Twitter creep" isn't the real Slim Shady (read, "McCoy.") Rather, it's the faux Joe Arpaio that New Times has blogged about in the past. Score one for faux Joe. After painstakingly going through Meghan McCain's Twitter correspondence, I found only one comment from "Joe Arpaio," and it turned out to be Joe's satirical Twitter-doppelganger. Sorry to get everyone all excited. I s

  April 20, 2009

• Zack de la Rocha Protests Arpaio, Who Cozies up to White Supremacists, Plus, Jeff Farias Finds a Home with the Lord

  May 7, 2009

• Virgin, Universal to Offer Unlimited MP3s

  Can Virgin - with the help of Universal Music - effectively end online music piracy? We'll have to wait and seeIn an effort to help and curtail online music piracy, Universal Music will partner up with U.K. telecommunications ("telco," if you're British) provider Virgin Media to launch an unlimited downloadable music service. This service will set users back anywhere from $16 - $24 (10 - 15 pounds) a month and it allows them unlimited access to Universal's entire catalog. Users can either downlo

  June 15, 2009

• Home, Tweet Home: Jeff Moriarty Is Trying to Create a Cultural Identity for Phoenix, 140 Characters at a Time

  September 3, 2009