Name: Eric Berlin
Dateline: Pasadena, California
Weblog: dumpsterbust.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 301
First Published: Sunday, December 12, 2004
Last Published: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Eric Berlin is the Executive Producer of Blogcritics.org and publisher of Online Media Cultist. He's also prone to referring to himself in the third person in author bios in an attempt to make it look like someone Less Important wrote it for him.
Contact: dumpsterbust@gmail.comCurrently listing articles 301-251:
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Sarcastic and Cynical Stories for Kids? Check Out Barry Yourgrau— NASTY tales aim to deliver the stuff kids *really* like.
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Twitter as Communications Platform— Short, simple, and fast. That's the killer app.
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Is MyBlogLog Losing Its Buzz?— It's still a great site, so where's the buzz?
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Politics and MySpace: "the leading social networking blogosphere"?— It's hilarious when non-tech-savvy journalists wade into those electronics weeds.
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Twitters of the Day: Starbucks, Han Solo, and Netscape— Following the best of Twitter so you don't have to... but you should, it's rad!
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New Mashtracker Tracks Social News Stories, Techmeme-Style— New "memetracker" focuses on blog conversations stemming from social news stories published by Mashable.
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There's No Way That Tom From MySpace "Personally Contacted" Tila Tequila— While MySpace is blocking widgets and music players, Tom is too busy being Tom to bother with Tila Tequila.
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The Power of Twitter Compels You— Are people talking about Twitter? That would be a 10-4.
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The End of the Twitter As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)— Despite early predictions to the contrary, Twitter will be around for the long haul. Even after the buzz wears off.
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Where Some See "Hyper-Localism," Others See More Choices— People are finding a full and rich palette of news sources and are able to cobble together their own version of the truth of the
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Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"— "This can't be the process…You're cast into this amusing, Kafkaesque world to run your business."
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The Big Guns Come Out: Viacom Sues Google, YouTube For $1 Billion— The suit centers around an alleged 160,000 uploaded "unauthorized" video clips.
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People Are Freaking Tweaking on Twitter— Twitter Fever has emerged as the big story over the past month.
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Digg and Netscape Struggle to Prevent Gaming and Other Shenanigans— A successful experiment in buying a Digg front pager with low grade content proves that the big boy social news sites still have a ways
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Blogger Tags and the Mysteries of Search Engine Traffic— If you pull lots of search traffic you can sail off for six months and still have rip roaring stats when you get back.
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New York Considers Pedestrian Ban On iPods In Crosswalks— This is cruel and unusual punishment for the iPod set.
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How Does StumbleUpon Help Bloggers?— I'm a bit lost on how bloggers use StumbleUpon to drive traffic to individual stories.
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Is PayPerPost Trying to Outflank the Blogosphere's Defenses?— Can PayPerPost buy its way around and through the blogosphere's defenses? I hope not.
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The Grind and Crunch of Blog Production— The neurotic, incessant, nearly haunting drive to get in front of a keyboard.
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PayPerPost Adds New Features, But Does PayPerPost Add Up?— Does it all come down to the mysterious phrase: opportunity requirements?
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I Really, Really Like(d) Joe Biden— The Democratic field has been clearing out relatively quickly and early this cycle.
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Top 10 Favorite Online Media Blogs: From Mathew Ingram to Deep Jive— If you're into online media and the web 2.0 world, this might be the list for you.
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The Economist Tinkers With Blogs to Expand Free Online Offerings— Traditional media continues its flirtation with blog-like offerings.
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Where Do You Store Your Online Valuables?— I'm convinced that something better is out there.
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As U.S. Media Jobs Slashed, Online Media Takes Another Step Into the Spotlight— This process will play out over a number of years, but we can safely say now that online media ain't no fad.
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MyBlogLog Integrates Flickr Features: Is A Social Networking Powerhouse For Bloggers On the Rise?— I think Yahoo! senses they have a winner on their hands, and will nudge MyBlogLog into a position to be the defacto "MySpace for Bloggers."
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Does Google Search Dominate Your Blog?— The simple answer is stick to the basics... and then hope that the Google Love in the end outweighs the Google Evil.
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Social Networking Blog Mashable Seeks to Pay Its Readers to Write Good Stuff— If Mashable manages to harness the skills, intelligence, and research powers of its own readership, look for other ambitious and growing sites to try something
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Blog Traffic At Top U.S. Newspapers Explodes As Mainstream Media-Blogosphere Convergence Continues Breakneck-Like— People are reading them blogs. More than ever before, many probably don't even realize it.
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Netscape Represents the Future of News— The future of news sites will comprise three kinds of content, which will be mixed and matched and meshed together in all kinds of dizzying
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SponsoredReviews: A New Assault on the Blogosphere's Credibility— The question is: how will the blogosphere defend its credibility in the coming days?
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Reuters Blogs: Where New Media Touches the Wire— Reuters.com, a place to meet all your daily blog-read needs?
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What's Your Favorite Go-To Downtime Site?— From Google News to Fark, from Drudge to Reddit, everyone needs a place to go when the post-lunch coma starts to set in.
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MyBlogLog Gets Acquired By Yahoo! And It Was Good— A new front in stimulating communication and networking comes in the form of MyBlogLog-style widgets, and Yahoo! was all over that.
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Finding Blogging Focus— It's a fascinating game: how to do something you love (writing and the online medium) while finding people that will come along for the ride.
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Free WiFi Coming to San Francisco While Pasadena Waits Nobly, Impatiently— A landmark development in lowering the digital divide?
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Can Feedburner's StandardStats Lead the Way to Better Internet Traffic Ranking?— A common definition of site traffic coupled with a standard way to measure all of the ways that people view Internet content may open the
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Mochila, AP Stories, and Avoiding the Company of Sameness— Don't get hoodwinked by the promise of extra revenue. It isn't what you got into the blogging for.
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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington Announces Web 2.0 Companies "I Couldn't Live Without"— While most of these services didn't exist two or three years ago, they really are indispensable to the daily life of many web users as
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Comedy Break: Airplane! and Black Coffee— In this scene, a most proper young lad offers a fine young lady coffee, and… well, explaining it kind of ruins it, doesn't it?
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Live Blogging the 2006 Elections— Eric Berlin will be live blogging and drinking coffee throughout Election Day. Keep it tuned right here for the latest!
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Music Review: The Doors - Perception (6 CD/6 DVD Box Set)— The physical object of Perception recalls those giddy feelings, having a huge collection of brilliant and daring mood-altering music within your very and tangible grasp.
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The Apprentice Finalist Lee Bienstock Hired By Trump Organization— As my dad would always say, "Fair? You want fair? Life isn't fair!"
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Tim Minear Gets Back in TV Gear with Drive— Tim Minear just might be the king of the brilliant-show-cruelly-killed-before-its-time.
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Nathan Fillion Gets Lost— As an unabashed follower of Joss Whedon, I'm always perked and pleased to see members of his 'verse spreading out through the televised cosmos.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Sailing Toward Cancellation-Land? Let's Hope Not— It's gotten better since its slow-ish start, and the most recent episode was pure and classic Sorkin magic.
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The House of Digg Produces New Offspring: Internet TV Venture Revision3— Traditional TV should take note, and start getting nervous quick-like.
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MeeVee Dishes Personalized TV Listings Via Widgets— It's a natural fit for a company like MeeVee to produce a widget that can be installed on social networking profiles and blogs.
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President Bush and Iraq: Historic Vision or Tactically-Challenged, Oil-Drenched Folly?— Could it have been a slip of the tongue, the President being museful amongst right-thinking writer types?
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Bravo's Project Runway A Runaway Hit As Three Cut Out And Split This Week— The key to the best reality shows on television is suspense derived from a goal desperately desired by interesting, passionate, and talented people.
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TV Review: The Wire Returns, Bringing "Boys of Summer"— The Wire opens its fourth season, telling a Great American Story.
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