Chris Barna’s Weblog

Sometimes old games are more fun…

Since the death of OiNK just under a month ago, the BitTorrent community has been frantically searching for a replacement tracker that is just as good. Two trackers, specifically, have been touted as the “official” replacement, what.cd and waffles.fm on social news sites such as Digg and reddit. There is, however, another tracker that is [...]

In a sign that the iPhone is way too hyped, the mayor of Philadelphia has been waiting in line since 3:30 this morning. According to a reader at Consumerist nobody really likes him but he could at least be pretending to work today. Technorati Tags: iphone

The Internet prides itself in being inherently anti-establishment. The users on digg think they have it all figured out and can bring the political system to its knees. Reddit prides itself on being a more intelligent digg and yet still has all of the same characteristics. However, by creating these lofty ideas of themselves users [...]

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Social networking is definitely the buzzword leading into the 2008 campaign cycle and the Democrats seem to be all over it. It started with Howard Dean in 2004 and Joe Trippi’s book “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” explained how well it worked. Following the footsteps of the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, presidential hopefuls [...]

There are some cool new features over at the music/social networking site last.fm including a flash based quilt of your top albums or artists. I have been using last.fm for a couple years and it has really grown into an amazing system. Back when I first started there were actually two sites, Last.fm and Audioscrobbler [...]