5 posts and columns on iFart

Turnabout Is Fair Play: BoomTown Decodes Rupe's Journalism-Is-Not-a-Free-Cow Op-Ed!

in News on December 14, 2009 at 9:05 am PT

Last week, BoomTown translated an opinion piece written by Google CEO Eric Schmidt and published in The Wall Street Journal that focused on defending the search giant from criticism that it was, well, killing journalism. One of the louder critics, in fact, has been Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., who has leveled a series of high-profile verbal attacks on Google. Last week, Murdoch published his own piece in The Journal, in which Google was never mentioned by name. So in the interest of equal-opportunity balloon-pricking, I must also render Murdoch’s post through my decoding machine, because it’s only sporting!
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Four and a Half Minutes on iFart? There’s a “Daily Show” Clip for That.

in Media on July 22, 2009 at 5:14 am PT

Everyone knows that one of the iPhone’s best selling points is the amazing array of apps developers make for the handset. But if you still need convincing, check out this “Daily Show” clip, which highlights some of the phone’s most popular programs.
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What Book Will Amazon Delete Next?

in Media on July 21, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

Last week, Amazon acknowledged that it deleted some copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles. So what book will be next? Because while Amazon has said it won’t repeat what it did last week, it hasn’t actually sworn off remote book-removal–or remote-anything removal, for that matter–altogether. Does that worry you? It should.
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Goodbye BlackBerry (and Hello iFart App?)

in News on January 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Hello, my name is BoomTown and I am a reformed CrackBerryaholic. How bad was it? Here’s the worst story: I was holding my BlackBerry in my hand, inadvertently for once, when I gave birth to my son in 2002. I should have been embarrassed by that. I was not. Hence, that makes me a full-fledged Blackberry addict. Actually, I was one. That’s right, I have finally abandoned the BlackBerry for the iPhone.