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1938 had a video on the Federated Media blog-plosion this weekend. It’s a pretty cynical look at what happened, but still worth checking out. I’m still trying to get a handle on the whole situation- there is a lot more to it than a few banner ads…

I don’t use Apple computers, but I can’t help but get swept up in all the keynote excitement. These are generally the best covered tech speeches of the year so it’s really fun to keep track of them.
The two big sites to stay up to date on Engadget and Gizmodo, both of which will probably [...]

Tamron has some pretty cool new photography podcasts. They are kind of advertise-y but if you are interested in learning a little about lenses and what Tamron has to offer they are probably worth checking out.
I am not really much of a photographer, but I like the gear and have really seen my pictures improve [...]

The people over at mini-itx.com have posted the first review of a Pico-ITX motherboard. I’m not quite sure how they got their hands on a motherboard so early but I am guessing they bought a sample board from a retailer somewhere. Supposedly some retailers received a few boards as samples (though they sold out fast).
So [...]

There was a lot of news about Fujitsu’s upcoming UMPC in the news yesterday. This is the convertible “flip” unit that we have been seeing pictures of for a few weeks now, but some real details are finally out. There has been an official announcement…
Specs:
Processor: Intel processor A110 (CPU: 800MHz)
North Bridge: Intel 945GU Express [...]

Barron’s is reporting that internet retail giant Amazon just bought dpreview.com. In case you are not familiar with dpreview.com, it is a wildly popular digital photography review site that does an excellent job with it’s reviews, but is not nearly as approachable as something like Cnet.
Over that dpreview they are saying that the site pulls [...]

There is a great open thread over at Web Worker Daily about text editors. Just like everyone has their own writing style, everyone has their own method for putting that text down on the computer.  There are a lot of great word processing programs out there and text editors so there is no method that [...]