misc Webcomic About SF Startup Scene Launched by <em>Twitter Wit</em> Author Nick Douglas, former Gawker and Valleywag scribe/Twitter Wit author, created a glorious new comic about a nascent online internet e-web venture in San Francisco. It's called Big Damn Deal.
SF News UC Berkeley to Stop Printing Press Much to our surprise, the University of California at Berkeley still has an operable printing press. But? Not for long. According to CBS 5, "Within weeks, UC Berkeley will shut down its
SF News Anti-Gay Website Hacked with Viagra Ads, Now Finally Useful by Matt Baume Things the National Organization for Marriage hates: gays. Things the National Organization for Marriage loves: cialis. Don't believe us? Fine: go check out their site. Google terms like
SF News Cisco to "Forever Change the Internet" Today, San Jose-based Cisco Systems introduced some sort of newfangled "next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3," which boasts "about three times the capacity of its current platform.
SF News Ban Social Networking for Sex Offenders, Says Kamala Harris "The carrot is don't get on these sites, and the stick is we will prosecute you," says San Francisco DA Kamala Harris -- who is also running for state attorney
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eater Seeks New Editor In a move that makes us want to slice open an artery, Eater's much-loved and Schick Quattro-sharp editor Paolo Lucchesi is leaving his post. Sob, sniff. On the plus
SF News <em>WSJ</em> Editor Confused By The Internet Pompous Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is, for lack of a better word, dim. And old. Case in point, he was, for some inexplicable reason, asked to speak at Web Summit
SF News Salon Clips 20% Of Its Editorial Staff In an effort to become "more of a true Web publication," the AP English class of the interwebs, Salon.com, laid off six editorial staff members. CEO Richard Gingras confirmed to
SF News Murderer Scott Peterson Needs Your Help! The man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, has managed to set up a website. Why? Because he plans on going forward with his appeal. While death row inmates are forbidden
SF News Brand Makeover at Yahoo In an effort to make itself relevant again, Yahoo will undergo an extreme makeover. According to All Things Digital, "in what many sources at the company said is a major push, Yahoo
SF News Local Tech Company Shocked to Discover That It's Been Filtering Gay Content When Unite The Fight, a homosexual blog, discovered that Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf's wifi was blocking gay-themed sites, they were not thrilled. Because blocking access to gay site is,
SF News San Francisco Homeless Stay Connected The Wall Street Journal reports that many of San Francisco's homeless are savvy at finding ways to go online regularly. Shelter attendants say the number of overnight visitors with laptops is
SF News MyOpenBar.com to Shutdown SF, LA Operations This post will be the most difficult one your editor has had to write. We type these words as we head to the Golden Gate Bridge, ready to jump over the railing, prepared
SF News People Who Pay to Win Webby Awards Honored With Webby Awards on Tuesday Next to promises of penile enlargements and bank accounts of Nubian royalty, the Webby Awards are one of the best scams on the interwebs these days. The Webby Awards, which are beyond a
SF News Apple to Buy Twitter? Although it's known more for pretty computers and applications celebrating infanticide than Internet know-how, Apple is rumored to snatch up Twitter, according to Valleywag. While the SF-based company turned
SF News Texas Resident SFGate's Most Prolific Commenter Daring to go where no online writer in their right mind should ever, ever, ever go, SF Chronicle's Ryan Kim profiles SFGate's most "prolific" commenters, Kimble McSweeney,
SF News SF Chronicle Unveils New "E-Edition" Prepared to take l'internet by storm, SF Chronicle just unveiled their new "e-edition" (which is sophisticated, high-tech talk for "electronic edition"). What is the "
SF News Former Valleywag Editor Nets $50K for Twitter Book Further proof that gingers are crafty devils, former Valleywag editor Nick Douglas is (allegedly) being paid $50,000 by HarperCollins for a book on his Twittering capabilities. Specifically, his book, Twitter Wit, will
SF News Teachers Should Rally for More Online Internet World Wide Web Training Too Dying to know more about Pink Friday -- today's statewide rally where teachers protest impending layoffs and budget cuts while sporting varying shades of light rogue -- we were delighted to find this
SF News Film du Jour: Internet Famous Class These are the worst kind of people in the world, all together in one class. You will want to put your face through a window after watching this video. And then chew your
SF News Chronicle Takes Aim at the Internets (Again) With yet another cover story on the same subject in 30 days (same story, but no new information), The Chronicle's anti-Internet story "Web 2.0 defamation lawsuits multiply"
misc 1981 KRON Report on Electronic Journalism Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid came across this gem. It's a 1981 KRON report on the Internet and newspapers. How will this newfangled technology change the publishing industry? SF Examiner&
SF News Todd Mehserle's Angry Internet History by Hunter Walker Todd Mehserle, whose son Johannes is the BART officer who was captured on film shooting Oscar Grant as he lay unarmed and facedown on a subway platform, seems to have
SF News House of Shields Responds to Yelpers Unfortunate Night Out Goodness, it's been quite an enthralling day, hasn't it? The tale of the cheap patrons versus the cranky House of Shield bartender got many of us hot and bothered.
misc Yelpers Attack House of Shields Bartender, Entertainment Ensues Internet drama of the hair-pulling, eye-scratching, and feline variety is always high quality entertainment. And today Yelp has it in spades. It seems some sort of Coyote Ugly-vs.-patrons fight
