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SDCC 2011: An Early Evening with Kevin Smith (NSFW)

Every year at Comic-Con, Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) regales the Hall H audience as only a master raconteur can. Here he talks about quitting the film business and beginning a podcasting empire, lowering your expectations, raising a geek daughter, marketing his film Red State and his personal [...]

Will Apple’s New Pulse Improve Its Customer Service?

The following is a guest post. If you’d like to contribute your own point of view on technology, social media or geek culture,  feel free to send your submission to submissions@thedrilldown.com Apple has always prided themselves in being interested in customers’ opinions of their products and in valuing the feedback they get. Although Apple has [...]

Is the cloud the future of low-wage labor?

The following is a guest post. If you’d like to contribute your own point of view on technology, social media or geek culture,  feel free to send your submission to submissions@thedrilldown.com Amazon is a leader in the cloud-computing world with a wide range of services from on-the-fly computing power to large scale data hosting to [...]

The Drill Down 2010 Holiday Gadget Gift List

Because The Drill Down wants you to be armed and informed this holiday shopping season, we’ve put together our tech gift picks to add to your shopping list. We’ll start with gadget blogger Sukhjit, our guest during our recent Gift Guide episode.

Digg Removes BP America Sponsored Submission From Front Page

UPDATED: 10/8/2010 – 2:07 p.m. CST Digg removed a BP America sponsored submission from their front page after determining it “crossed the acceptable threshold” of negative community feedback, the company stated on its official Twitter account. The submission — Offshore world looks good after Gulf oil spill, scientists say (with video) –  attempted to downplay [...]