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Shame Upon Shame: Use BitTorrent to Snag Some Free Porn? The Feds May Be After You

The Tangled Web We Watch: A Bizarre Episode of Father-Son Bonding in the 21st Century

PSY's "Gangnam Style" Dominates YouTube and Pop Culture

Biden, Ryan Battle Over Iran but Steer Clear of Cyberwar

Early in last night's vice presidential debate, questions came up about what to do over Iran's nuclear program. Things got fierce. Biden scrunched his brow and hammered away on Iran's lack of missiles to deliver whatever it enriches and driveled on about diplomacy. Ryan's giant w ... More >>

Florida Republican Reps Vote to Pass CISPA, Let the Government Root Around in Your Internet Data

For all their talk of small government, Florida's Republicans sure do like a bill that would let Big Brother spy on all the stuff you've been doing online.The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act would remove the legal barriers between the websites that have your data and the governmen ... More >>

Orgy.xxx and Other Future Porn Websites Sold Yesterday at Fort Lauderdale Auction

sikworld.com​The future porn websites of American were sold at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Fort Lauderdale yesterday afternoon, with both normal ".com" suffixes and the newly released ".xxx" domain names up for auction.The company hosting the auction, TRAFFIC, had listed 120 domain names to be aucti ... More >>

.xxx Domain Names Will Soon Be Available for That Porn Website You've Always Wanted

​You know that porn website you always wanted to start? Yes, the one with the 7-foot-tall women and the action figures. Well, you'll have to wait a bit longer to register for the .xxx domain on it, since the company is allowing only preexisting porn sites to register for now.ICM Registry, the Palm ... More >>

Naked Jogger Stopped by Cops in West Palm Beach; Unfortunately, There Are Pictures

via Twitter user toughguy1967​Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do -- like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp t ... More >>

Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch Photos From 36,000 Feet

via Twitter user ChadGraff​There might not be much sightseeing from the window seat of a commercial airplane between Baltimore and Fort Lauderdale, except for maybe a rocket going into space next to your plane.The Huffington Post reports these pictures of the space shuttle Atlantis launch were ... More >>

Help Wanted: Full-time Food Writer in Fort Lauderdale

Flickr/ rosy outlook​Can you tell cumin from coriander? Do you have a nose for (restaurant) news? Can you spell "hors d'oeuvre"?  Are you willing to spend your life blogging, eating, and then blogging and eating some more? New Times Broward-Palm Beach is looking for a full-time food writer /b ... More >>

".XXX" Domain Suffix Looks Promising for a 2011 Release

via ICM​Palm Beach Gardens company, ICM Registry, was established in 1999 for the sole purpose of gaining approval for ".xxx" web addresses and subsequently selling them. After a 10-year battle, ICM took one step closer to its goal on Friday, when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... More >>

Meals on Wheels: The Food Truck Phenomenon Sweeps South Florida

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

The Next Big Tech Money Maker: Virtual Goods

​​A couple of years ago, if you'd have said "virtual goods" to someone, they would have assumed you meant digital consumer items like electronic books or music. Not anymore. Now, Virtual Goods are the hottest new market on the Web and it's expected to hit $1 billion or more next year in the U.S. ... More >>

Are Florida Gang Members Using Twitter?

​A recent news story on The Business Insider got me thinking about something. If New York gang members are using Twitter to talk to one another and organize fights, robberies, etc. then could Florida gangsters be doing the same?Of course, Twitter has sub-cultures just like any other group ven ... More >>

Social Commerce and Online Porn: What They Can Learn From Each Other

​Social media and websites such as Facebook and YouTube are now the leading activity on the Internet for most of the U.S. and Europe. What's interesting is that while the social networking sites are growing exponentially, the commerce that attempts to take advantage of them doesn't seem to be near ... More >>

South Florida WordPress Meetup and WordPress Security

​Last week, I attended the South Florida WordPress Meetup for the first time. The topic was WordPress security and the presenter was John Carcutt of West Palm Beach. The meetups are held in Pompano Beach every second Wednesday of the month.Carcutt is the group's organizer and is the search engine ... More >>

The Domain Name Industry, South Florida, and Professionalism

​Last week, I attended the SouthFloridaDomainers.com event, which was put on by the company Oversee.net. Most of the early innovation in domain name trading, development, and selling originated right here in South Florida. The founders of SFD, Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, and Brian Diener, are some loca ... More >>

What Is a Social Media Expert Anyway?

There is nothing magical to social media​Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in "instant gurus" is to title yourself a "social media expert." Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talki ... More >>

Will the Internet Be Full Next Year?

​If you haven't gotten an iPhone, registered your preferred web address, or otherwise secured your location on the internet, you might want to do so now.  According to the European Commission in a recent survey of organizations, most have not upgraded to the new IPv6 internet protocols and ar ... More >>

TechSqueeze: SheBlogs Shows That Girls Have All the Fun

SheBlogs.org founder Julie Wohlberg.A new startup in West Palm Beach is hoping to combine the more traditional public relations sector with the new media niche of women who blog. There are a lot of them, and they are likely more active than most of their male counterparts, some studies might suggest ... More >>

Foodbuzz.com Brings Food Blogs to the Forefront

​This weekend, self-proclaimed "foodies" with a gift for prose will descend on San Francisco for the first ever Foodbuzz.com Blogger Festival. The three-day gathering will culminate with an awards ceremony where Foodbuzz will hand out golden forks to the top food blogs in a number of categories (e ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Whisk​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.The South Florida page of Dine Mag is packed with news of upcoming chef related events and plenty of reviews of eateries. Most ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Chadzilla.com​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.Will Jog for Food is keeping up with the whole "Let's exercise AND eat so we don't turn into huge hogs" thing. But don ... More >>

And You Thought Twitter Was Worthless: Buy-One-Get-One Tickets to the Miami International Wine Fair

​When Facebook started gobbling up MySpace users, you were one of the first to jump ship. These days, your Twitter account has hundreds of followers and you update your status bi-hourly (4 minutes ago: I remembered why I used to love Captain Crunch so much as a kid). Well now all that social netwo ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Stephencooks.com​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.By now, you're probably checking out Burger Beast regularly, thanks to its reviews of Checker's' Baconzilla Burgers ... More >>

After Craigslist: Is "Hoes and Bitches" Video the Future of Prostitution Advertising?

Having romantic problems? A Pompano Beach man has just what you've been looking for... That is, if you've been looking for "easy girls" or "live ass hoes" or women he says he and his friends have hooked up with recently. The video above, posted to YouTube by J'Quan Kabal, shows a series of women, ... More >>

Weekend Blog Wrap

Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on dessert blogs:It's hard to tell what's more delicious on Cannelle et Vanille: the recipes or the photography. Take ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Cook To Bang... mmmm PoonchiladasAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on less-local blogs:Serious Eats is a... well a serious food blog. Professional ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Burger BeastAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs:Let's say you've already poured through Clean Plate Charlie, but still need more South Florida food blogging goodness. It's i ... More >>

Tweet Tweet: Sun-Sentinel Getting Social

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Lauderdale Votes for Non-Obama Candidates, Democracy Ignored in Non-Twitter Format

Voters in Fort Lauderdale will elect a mayor and an entire city council today, while over in Fort Myers, President Obama is speaking. Approximately four dozen or so Fort Lauderdale residents are expected to turn temporarily away from their Twitter accounts to vote, and, oh, over on the west coast, t ... More >>

Forget the PS-Triple

It’s all about the 360, baby.

Soulja Boy Responds to Ice-T

Blogged To Death

Beto Cuevas Announced as Special Surprise Guest at Tonight's Myspace Latino "Show Secreto"

Tego Calderon

OneRepublic

Outgrowing Tom

Bugged by MySpace's clutter and limitations, some musicians turn to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

Dire Emergency for Internet Radio!!

Pod Shots

A Deerfield pod-novelist may be close to striking literary gold

The Canucks Are Coming

Vincent Black Shadow

Sallah Sounds Off, Sort Of

Help a Dying Man? Don't Bother

Best Local Website

miami.craigslist.org

Aftershock

The music industry's ongoing problems continue to affect the local dance community

Blog and Pony Show

It's a Web phenomenon, but is it art?

When Online Got Off Base

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

Best Local Website

www.TheHoneyComb.com

Ransom Notes

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