By Phil Butler on Jan 31, 2008 in Featured, Uncategorized, social networks | 25 Comments
For over a year I have been in “hate“with MySpace. Then along came Facebook, and I was immediately in “like“with it. Then a cool, dark reality set in. Even the best laid out developments are prone to run out of gas. I think this happens after the initial “spurt“ of creativity and newness wears off, [...]
By Phil Butler on Dec 13, 2007 in Featured, sport | 6 Comments
We have been hearing about Barry Bonds and his alleged steroid use for some time now, isn’t it getting sticky in sport these days? Today I was reading a story about the literally dozens of baseball players being investigated in light of the “Mitchell Report”.
Senator George Mitchell gave a report that lambasted MLB owners [...]
By Phil Butler on Nov 19, 2007 in Asia, News | 11 Comments
South Korea is one of the most “wired” nations on the planet as is commonly known. I ran across an interesting bit of news today dealing with what can be termed “Web addiction”. Evidently the South Korean government has established a network of 140 Internet addiction centers to curb compulsive Internet usage by “afflicted” people. [...]