Hypercrit

Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general.

Month: February, 2008

Wikileaks.org ordered offline

A California court recently ordered that the whistleblower site Wikileaks.org be removed from the Internet after a Swiss bank said the site had posted information about its offshore activities.
Wikileaks allows its users to anonymously post government and corporate documents to the pubic. The Swiss banking group Julius Baer said several hundred of its documents were posted […]

Quickorder app to keep iPod touch owners hooked on Starbucks

Quickorder, a potential Web app for the iPod Touch and iPhones, would allow Starbucks customers to order online and avoid all that awful human interaction. This is only a mockup and the app isn’t live yet, but I think this is another look at the consumer world to come. Technologies like this one, and like […]

Twitter-ific

Okay, so a lot of people are using Twitter these days, and I admit that I’ve been lagging behind the curve on this one. I thought to myself, what’s the point of this microblogging stuff. Why post a one-line update when I could just post a real article? Well, then I started getting busy with […]

Something Stirs…

I’m not sure, but this whole blog thing might be on its way back to the front of my brain…