Before Hulu, the notion of giving up television seemed almost impossible. This joint venture of NBC, FOX, and ABC, has made it easy for many Americans to watch majority of popular TV programming on their own time. Recently Hulu’s “Achilles’ heel” seems to be the lack of support from all major TV networks. As announced by a Hulu executive, Viacom Inc. is pulling out its two popular comedy shows, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, from the online video service. Although possible to view these shows on the Comedy Central website, this will come to a great inconvenience to many users as they are now forced to shuffle between two websites. Read the rest of this entry »

Is there still a wide spread use of virtual personas?  Interacting on the world wide web offers a whole new plane of existence. Many of us that have laid hands on a game have had the opportunity to create the ideal character; a character that makes up for all the short comings that we see in our physical selves. We create new identities online that allow us to be the type of character we have always imagined ourselves to be. As the internet has aged over the past couple of decades, new avenues of usage have popped up overnight; mixing up this concept of virtual identities. The internet has taken on numerous levels of complexity from social networking to gaming, leaving many users living multiple online identities. Read the rest of this entry »