Subject: Internet

• Killing Internet Radio, Not So Softly

  May 1, 2007

• Internet Radio Gets a Stay of Execution

  May 16, 2007

• Dire Emergency for Internet Radio!!

  July 13, 2007

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

  April 11, 2008

• MySpace Latino Connecting or Segregating?

  April 18, 2008

• Soulja Boy Responds to Ice-T

  June 23, 2008

• Blogging Bristol Palin's Baby Bump

  September 2, 2008

• Sí Se Puede ...Change The Facebook Layout

  October 3, 2008

• Straight from the Source

  October 4, 2007

• Happy Fontainebleau Weekend

  The Fontainebleau got some work done, and, like any mature lady with a fresh face lift, is being discreet about. Oh, she's just having a small, little shindig tonight with like 500 of her closest celebrity friends. Who are we kidding, she hasn't been this excited since all those times Frank Sinatra used to come inside of her. There are some awesome people on this list (hi, Chloe), and some others would be at the opening of a letter if they were invited, but that should all be very fun for the

  November 14, 2008

• Live At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

  So your Riptide was at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show "Bloggers Lounge" earlier at the refurbished Fontainebleau hotel. Bloggers lounges are a new frontier of blogging activity, but the ahi tuna, and the crème brûlée and the open bar, oh the open bar, made it very, very worth it. We may have been the only person we knew at this bloggers party, and the only blogger carded, but Riptide from now on supports bloggers lounges at every event ever under the condition that there is an open bar.

  November 15, 2008

• Shaq Twitters Himself Silly

  Rich Sanchez and his CNN show certainly have caught the twitter bug, and now another former Miami fixture is twittering his thumbnails off, too. Our New Times brethren in Phoenix report that the 7'1 superstar has his own twitter account, and apparently it's legit. Shaq is really into twitter, but he has typing skills that would make even middle school livejournal users cringe: "On my way 2 da arena. I feel like the main charachter n da movie 300"

  November 21, 2008

• Bloggers Angry About Crispin's Latest Burger King Stunt

  It seems like local advertising wunderfirm Crispin Porter Bogusky's latest shtick is to create campaigns that rile people up to the point they can't help but emotionally type overwrought, 1,000-word blog entries about them. How else to explain the captivating and confusing Microsoft ads staring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld?Along those lines, the firm's latest ad for its favorite client, Miami-based Burger King, is a hit. The "Whopper Virgins" stunt involves traveling to the far corners of the

  December 10, 2008

• Hey, McClatchy, We Found You a Buyer

  When we gave Eye on Miami our highly coveted "Best Of" award for blogging, we noted, "Eye on Miami is smart, witty, and informative -- almost like daily newspapers used to be." How wonderful now that one of Eye's bloggers, Genius of Despair, has started a bid to buy the Miami Herald with a new blog called, appropriately, Buy the Miami Herald. Despairy (we're going to call you that from now on, by the way) seems to have the plan thought through, but is missing one major factor: $$$. Despairy'

  December 10, 2008

• So Apparently We Have A Twitter

  Do you know how weird it was for me to see @miaminewtimes in a Twitter friend's Twitter update last night? How did I not know that we have a twitter, considering I write about half the stuff that appears in said twitter feed? If you don't know what Twitter is, well, I'm toying around with the idea of doing a "Dear Miami, This is How You Use the Internet" post sometime in the new year (which sounds condescending, but hopefully will round up some neat locally focused web resources and such). If y

  December 23, 2008

• Oh Good Grief, Another Burger King Stunt

  Before we indulge, yet again, in Burger King's cheap and greasy menu of shameless blog-attention-whoring marketing tactics, let's get out our feelings about their cheap and greasy menu of food: their fries taste like salted cardboard, their salad selection is terribly disappointing, and the Quad Stacker is by far the grossest culinary creation to ever be served in restaurants across the globe. Conscience cleared, let's talk about Miami-based Burker King's latest stunt. The Whopper Sacrifice 

  January 9, 2009

• Congressmen Bore the Hell out of Us on YouTube, Vote Spaghetti Cat in '10!

  It's not that people don't want to watch Mario Diaz-Balart videos on YouTube. This video of him experiencing some sort of Sarah Palin-induced seizuregasm at a John McCain rally has more than 35,000 views (although over half of those were from me). It's just that people don't want to watch Mario Diaz-Balart-approved Mario Diaz-Balart videos on YouTube. Today, Congress officially unleashed on the world HouseHub and SenateHub as a quick way to find viral video propaganda from your favorite congr

  January 13, 2009

• South Florida Firm Finds 90,000 Sex Offenders on MySpace

  Not every sex offender lives under a bridge, in fact if they're not in jail, many have relatively normal living conditions complete with internet connections and MySpace accounts. Sentinel Tech Holding, a Miami-based firm, specializes in detecting registered sex offenders on social networking sites and recently found a whopping 90,000 of them on MySpace.This comes just a few weeks after a study by Harvard's Internet Safety Technical Task Force basically said that the fact pedophiles are online

  February 3, 2009

• No, Netroots Campaigns Won't Work for Anyone

  After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. Republicans meanwhile are absolutely convinced there's nothing wrong with their message; its just they don't have enough Twitter accounts and Facebook friends to properly convey it anymore. The though

  February 12, 2009

• Rick Sanchez Sets Media Standards for a New Generation

  Rick Sanchez's transformation from WSVN's "If it bleeds, it leads" main man to king of media Twitterdom continues to astound and amaze. After Sanchez began his new CNN show complete with your Twitters, it has become de facto for journalists to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Even the Miami Herald is into it. But the use of Twitter in news content is a brave new area, and Internet hero Sanchez is here to settle correct Twitter standards forever. In 20 years, when science finds ways to inte

  February 17, 2009

• No One Wants To Watch Politicians Sing On YouTube, Let Alone Talk Politics

  Here is one of our local state House members, Republican J.C. Planas, belting out "Walking in Memphis" at Disney's new American Idol attraction, as first seen on Naked Politics about a week ago. So far it only has 898 views. Which by YouTube standards is paltry, but by politician standards is down right astronomical. Ileana Ros-Lehtnin's only has 842 views for her official YouTube channel total, and she's federal. The videos on other local US Congressmen, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and M

  February 19, 2009

• Senate 2010: Who Is Winning The Netroots So Far?

  Oh, we know, we know, it's so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber's announcement today that he'll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we've been toying with for a while. So new is it that we don't even have some sort of catchy name for it (suggestions in the comments!), but basically we'll be tracking the net roots efforts of the 2010 Senate Candidates -- which at the moment amount

  February 24, 2009

• Yo Dawg, We Heard You Hate Bloggers Blogging About Blog Memes...

  ...So We Made A Blog Post About Bloggers Blogging About Blogs Memes, So You Can Be Upset While You're Upset. via someone with a lot of time on there hands on the internet. To survive in the media today, you really have to find your niche. That is why Riptide is aggressively covering the phenomenon of a rapper creating some sort of controversy in Miami, only to get in a Twitter fight with noted bloggers. First we had N.O.R.E. who got arrested at a South Beach Fatburger, only to get in some sort o

  March 2, 2009

• Pitts Has a Vague Idea About Twitter and He Doesn't Like It

  Don't ask Leonard Pitts Jr. Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might want to understand what you're talking about first before dashing off a 600-plus word column on it. Pitts' Herald column today takes Twitter to task, in a fashion that woefully misunderstands the internet phenom. "[Twitter] is supposed to bring interested parties up to date on what you are doing, seeing, thinking, in that exact mom

  March 4, 2009

• The Top 100 Twitter Users in Miami

  Well, it happened. This weekend I got this email: "[Your Mom] is now following you on Twitter!" Along with that, and the major amounts of discussion about twitter during my Grandfather's 75th birthday dinner last night, Twitter has now officially jumped the shark. For me anyway. Knowing your mom read your tweets from the past two extended weekends of WMC and SXSW parties does that to you. But before this personal milestone, I found a site that ranks twitter users in different cities by following

  March 30, 2009

• Tallahassee Discovers Twitter, Goes a Little Overboard

  I'm not immediately sure how this is useful, but there's a new website for people in Tallahassee to get excited over. It's called the Florida Gaggle, and its main feature is that it aggregates the Twitter feeds from politicians, politicos, and reporters. How exciting! It also aggregates the same five or so newspaper political blogs that Sayfie Review does. But FLGaggle did help us find the Charlie Crist parody Twitter. Not quite as funny as, say, the Dinah Lohan or Christopher Walken fake Twitt

  April 6, 2009

• Forget the PS Triple

  It’s all about the 360, baby.

  July 24, 2008

• El Show Secreto

  April 10, 2008

• Battles on Your Lap

  July 26, 2007

• BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

  May 12, 2005

• BEST AUDIO TOUR

  May 12, 2005

• Mejia

  January 27, 2005

• BEST WI-FI LOCATION

  May 13, 2004

• After Shock

  January 8, 2004

• Artemis of Reason

  August 22, 2002

• When Online Got Off Base

  April 11, 2002

• Ransom Notes

  November 9, 2000

• Ms. Miami-Dade.com

  January 13, 2000

• Richie Hawtin Ushers in the Twee-J Revolution, a DJ's Twitter Application

  It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends' day to day lives, it now appears that Twitter is on its way to revolutionizing the world of DJing and the music industry as we know it. Renowned DJ, producer and techno magnate Richie Hawtin has announced his dev

  May 8, 2009

• Latest Use for Twitter: Municipal Political Spats

  Why is it that the middle-aged have embraced Twitter faster and more enthusiastically than most social networks that came before it? Maybe it's because it's so simple. Maybe it's because it requires so little time to update and touch base with contacts. Maybe it's because it syncs seamlessly with the iPhones and BlackBerries professionals already have in their possession. Maybe, because unlike MySpace or Facebook, it puts a premium on a more "mature" type of narcissism: reminding everyone how bu

  May 12, 2009

• Wish You Were There: Over the Weekend of June 4 to 7

  via verymanley's Flickr photostreamWish You Were There is a new column on Crossfade highlighting pictures and videos from around the web of the weekend's biggest shows. The biggest thing going in Miami this past weekend was the Poplife 10-year anniversary event, which luckily barely escaped the day's torrential rain. But still, nada about this on Flickr or YouTube -- maybe the inclement weather drove people to leave their expensive equipment at home. No worries, though, New Times' own slideshow

  June 8, 2009

• Local Bloggers Love Herald's Local Blog Aggregator

  The Herald hasn't figured what to do with this internet thing anymore than any other paper, but they've taken a big step in the right direction by partnering with BlogNetNews to create a community blog aggregator. 

  
  

  Not unsurprisingly, the local bloggers are quite pleased. 

  
  

  June 11, 2009

• We’ll Judge You by Your Profile Pic

  June 25, 2009

• Worldstar Hip-Hop Hijacks New Times Prunk TV Episode With Mack Maine, Kevin Rudolf

  Worldstar Hip-Hop is one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the Internet. Last week, the site featured a New Times episode of Prunk TV on its front page. As of now it has accrued 70,000 hits and change. Thing is, somebody downloaded it off the New Times YouTube channel, added the Worldstar watermark to it, and then uploaded it to wherever it is they host their videos. We got jacked, but Crossfade's not mad at 'em. Fuck it, that's the Internet, and that's exactly why we watermark our shit (

  July 30, 2009

• New Music Video From Miami Group 7 Estrellas called "Miami Life"

  Here's a brand new music video from a group called 7 Estrellas. The song is called "Miami Life." The YouTube description says:  "beat por: "Gualo" (Edge Music). Video producido por: Milagros Rosales, Bertha Alie, Jose Mateo. Direccion: Milagros Rosales. Edicion: Alejandro Gonzalez." The video was uploaded by YouTube user pmaracucho. 

  July 31, 2009

• Schooling Frod On Hypocrisy

  ​I generally let criticisms of my writing go unanswered, the attitude being that everyone has a right to gripe. Plus sometimes the criticisms are correct, and those that aren't can be especially fun to read. I fully expect to raise a bit of a fuss when I write a post that tosses off random thoughts and accusations in somewhat carefree fashion, which is what I did in the Unholy Alliance blog. I say "somewhat" because I was careful in certain respects. For instance, I consciously lumped in some

  September 16, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Recession-Friendly Twitter for Miami

  Bargain hunter Teresa Mears at her recession-friendly Twitter account.​Social media that makes life easier is a thing of beauty. Miami on the Cheap (@miamicheap) is just such a thing, making it a snap to find the best deals this side of the swamp. Teresa Mears is the publisher, author, and editor of a small South Florida blog empire for the cent-savvy, which is part of a national network of "cities on the cheap" blogs. This consummate frugalista also uses Facebook and Twitter to get the mes

  October 26, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Refresh Miami, October Edition

  From Dominguez's presentation.Old skool versus web design on steroids.​This month's Refresh Miami was held at the elegant Mayfair Hotel ballroom in Coconut Grove. It seemed like an unlikely place for geeks, what with the fancy decor and mood lighting. Had we all been wearing tuxes and gowns, it could've easily been mistaken for a geek prom.Seriously. On the menu were complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cocktails from a cash bar, and, of course, geeky presentations that had everyone salivating over t

  October 30, 2009

• Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless

  Robert Murray, local geek, is inspired to do good.​Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city's first Social Media for Social Change event.Social Media for Social Change (SM4SC) started out as a grassroots movement in the northeast with Bostonian Gradon Tripp at the lead. The idea was simple, but brilliant:  if we're all talking o

  November 6, 2009

• Wednesday Blog Watch: Heat_R Photos and Hip-Hop MP3s

  via lividrecords.comThe Crumbs are recording a new 10" for Livid Records.​*The party Heat_r is back up and running, bringing indie electro back to Fort Lauderdale, now at Exit 66. We heard it was pretty well-attended. The party's ostensible web site, though, which was at heatrparty.com, seems to have been subsumed by a catch-all nightlife site called Nightcure.com -- which hasn't been updated much at all.... But, you can still see lots of photos from the rebirth of Heat_r on this page. *O

  November 11, 2009