Perhaps the biggest, most pervasive, most important shift in media during the last year has been the rise of location-based services, particularly those used when mobile. New companies with names like FourSquare, Gowalla, and Loopt are letting everyone know where you are, where you aren’t, where you’ve been, and maybe even where you’re going.

Call me a sucker for T Pain, but I love the “I’m on a Boat” video from Lonely Island, the talented trio that produces most of the SNL Digital Shorts you enjoy so much. Well, when doing some “research” today, I discovered a funny re-mix of the video created by some U.S. navy enlisted sailors [...]

When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When they let their users know what it might look like, people debated whether that was the right way to deploy it. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked it.

I use Twitter a lot, but I was not among the very first to see the new Lists feature. I can now, though. And what I find much more interesting than actually using the feature myself is the fact that I woke up this morning to find that I was on dozens of other people’s [...]

Greetings world, and welcome to the second installment of “Tweets On A Plane,” whereby I amuse myself on board a flying chunk of metal in the sky by perusing your wit and wisdom in 140 characters via a pre-loaded Tweetdeck. I’m flying Porter Airlines, which rules — free wine, people, and do you think I’m indulging? Well what else goes with my free almonds, Terra chips and cookie? — and I am not lamenting the lack of on-board wifi one bit. Seriously, do I need to be wired all the time?

The same week that Saturday Night Live skewers President Barack Obama for accomplishing absolutely nothing, he has won the Nobel Peace Prize? Spin this: President Obama was 11 days into his presidency when nominations closed for the Peace Prize. What exactly was he nominated for? Forget Jimmy Carter waiting over two decades for his – One could argue that George W. Bush should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize, since he literally may have done more for world peace by leaving office than Obama did by entering it.