Big Media And User Comments: The Onion Nails It

http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf User feedback on blogs (or any Internet forum/community) is always fascinating to watch. Things start off great, but as t

Head for the hills: first new artificial life form created

Ready for an ethics debate? DNA researcher Craig Venter (pictured right) "has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new arti

CrunchDeal: 256MB GeForce 8600 GT PCI Express video card plus DX10 'Company of Heroes' for $99

Looking for the right time to jump into the DirectX 10 game? Now might be your chance. ZipZoomFly.com has a DX10-compatible GeForce card bundled with the full version of Relic Entertainment’s po

Run your Google Desktop gadgets on your iGoogle page

With Google’s new Desktop 5.5 Beta, you’re now able to run the gadgets once relegated to your computer’s sidebar right on your web browser’s personalized iGoogle start page. Be

Feedburner Bug, Or We More Than Doubled Our RSS Subscribers

1,511,000: the number of subscribed RSS readers of TechCrunch, according to the Feedburner Widget as I type this post. Given the number is up significantly from the 600,000 odd subscribers we had yest

Loic Lemeur Building Video Twitter

Former Six Apart Europe head and well known French Web 2.0 entrepreneur Loic Lemeur relocated to San Francisco recently to build a new startup, and thanks to Robert Scoble we now know what it is: &#82

Daily Crunch: Mini Golf Edition

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Is Philip DeFranco The Heir To The ZeFrank Crown?

Ever since the arguably very popular ZeFrank finished his daily “The Show” earlier this year, I’ve been trying to find a decent Ze Frank alternative, a video blog that is short, shar

Teh.Be$T.Kommenter.Evar

Comments are the greasy oil that keeps the blog machine running. Here are three great (and 100% unedited) comments recently posted by your fellow readers. iPod Nano sets man’s pants on fire in a