Category Archives: Technology

Forget mining bitcoins – mine IPv4 addresses

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Back before the beginning of the Internet, folks at ARPA sat down to figure out a reasonable way for defense contractors at Universities to get their computers to talk to each other. They eventually created a thing called IP, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Instability, Technology | 14 Comments

Mozilla is so gay!

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The co-founder of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript is under fire. Three of the six board members have quit because Brendon Eich committed the outrageous act of giving money to Prop 8 in California to define marriage between one man … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Technology | 74 Comments

I have 10 lumosity points

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This is incredibly silly, but will be wildly successful. I saw an online ad for a service to help you train your brain. Like the NSA doesn’t have enough insights into us yet? You play “games” and the service trains … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Global Instability, Technology, Totally random stuff | 11 Comments

Difference between a Podcast and an Archive

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Fred Stiening

I’ve written about this before, but since I’m going to start paying more attention to this, here we go again since a lot of people in radio either don’t get the difference or don’t care. A “Podcast” is a feed … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Mobile Streaming | 1 Comment

Becoming a glasshole

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Google emailed me today, wondering if I’m interested in buying Glass. I looked at it with eye of a developer just far enough to decide I wasn’t interested. Everything the glass device does is bounced off a Google Server which … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Totally random stuff | 11 Comments

Americans spend 11 hours/day interacting with digital media

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://mashable.com/2014/03/05/american-digital-media-hours/ Half of that is watching TV, a bit under three hours listening to radio It’s probably worth noting that people often do more than one at the same time, like listening to radio while reading email

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 4 Comments

Kaliki is here – move over iHeartRadio

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The new Rusty Humphries daily news show from the Washington Times will be distributed by Kaliki, an app that is already being built into new GM and Ford vehicles. When your car is connected to the Internet directly and can … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz, Talk Radio Network | 5 Comments

FCC wants Internet fairness

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/fcc-plans-to-allow-online-discrimination-20140219 The Federal courts have repeatedly told the FCC it has no legal authority to create “net neutrality”, but the new FCC chairman is at it again. With the courts pretty solidly in the hands of progressives, a pretty successful … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Internet Insecurity, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz, The FCC | 15 Comments

Microsoft’ s to do list

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Microsoft’s new CEO is an immigrant from India who most recently was involved in leading the effort to switch the corporate business model for Office from buying software to renting it. Real Clear politics asks where will the company go … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Technology | 38 Comments

Is that a twitch?

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Fred Stiening

If 40 and under folks are not listening to radio, losing interest in Facebook and not watching MSNBC, where are they? One place is Twitch http://readwrite.com/2014/01/18/the-twitch-tv-phenomenon-is-bigger-than-you-think As odd as it probably sounds, large numbers of people get online to watch … Continue reading →

Posted in Online Gaming, Technology | 1 Comment