The FCC has released their QUARTERLY REPORT ON INFORMAL CONSUMER INQUIRIES AND
COMPLAINTS, covering January-March 2009.
It’s the usual government summary paper, filled with lots of mumbo-jumbo, charts, and big words to fill up all 11 pages when probably two or three pages would have done just fine.
But if you take the time to read through all that ick, you’ll see an interesting statistic: according to the FCC, March 2009 was incredibly indecent for TV viewers and radio listeners.
Remember when MTV was cool and we’d rush home from school to turn on the channel just to watch the lastest, craziest music videos?
And remember how they’d do specialty shows like 120 Minutes where you might not know all the bands that were being played, but the videos were cool?
So now we have YouTube, but the thrill of finding some video before your friends have seen it is still a good time.
With that in mind, here are some international music videos that may make you laugh, sing along, or marvel at some of the technological goodness that comes with making videos for today’s wired music video fan.
This first video features fans of the band working their webcams. Cool idea!
SOUR – 日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro) “Tone of Everyday”
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How much does THE INTERNET KNOW ABOUT YOU?
Quite a bit, actually.
Visiting this site will display a list of all the most popular websites that you’ve visited.
The question is, how does this website even know? And will disabling JavaScript or anything else keep this from happening?
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The hard part about playing Hasbro’s MONOPOLY is trying to find other people who are willing to play with you.
All your friends who normally love to play games all complain that it takes too long to play, or nobody really wants to be banker, or your rules are different from the way want to play.
Web Watch says that you can leave those friends behind.
Because now Hasbro and Google have teamed up to produce a terrific interactive use of Google Maps called MONOPOLY CITY STREETS that takes the game of Monopoly and applies it to any city in the world, and you can play along at home.
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As we become more-and-more invested in using the Internet and other new technology, more and more things are becoming obsolete as they are being rendered useless.
Payphones? No longer needs as everyone has a cell phone.
Telephone books? There’s a huge cutback on printing and distributing them as everyone just looks numbers up on the Internet or calls 411.
Ethernet cords? Why bother running a 20′ long cable from the wall to the kitchen table if you can go wireless?
In that vein, the Telegraph has decided to put together their list of 50 THINGS THAT THE INTERNET HAS KILLED.
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Here’s an update to a Web Watch posting from a few months ago on 10 Ways To Be a Facebook Offender.
It seems that CNN has taken that idea and twisted it around a little bit, releasing their own list of 12 MOST ANNOYING FACEBOOK USERS. Perhaps you can recognize yourself or one of your friends in these descriptions:
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Some are not.
Today in Web Watch, we will focus on a few websites that definitely fall into the latter category: websites that ask you to do just one thing – push a button.
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It’s true. And you know it.
You see them every day at the office or at the house. Maybe you’re even married to one who claims to be more successful than you are because they’re a “multitasker”. They can do more things before breakfast than you’ll do all day.
Oh, la-di-freakin’ dah.
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