If you believe the buzz, if you are foolish enough to fall for the gurus, then you probably think that “FREE!” is the next best thing in marketing. As I mentioned last time out, Chris Anderson of Wired is coming out with a new book about “FREE!”, which oddly has been very slow to come [...]
A few years ago, Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired Magazine wrote a book called “The Long Tail”. In a nutshell, Anderson’s observations were based mostly around the book, video, and music business. With companies such as Amazon being able to stock a significantly larger collection of books than your local bookstore, example, [...]
An interesting report on the March viewership numbers from Nielsen Media Research. shows the CNN is slipping to third amoungst cable news viewship in prime time. “Through Wednesday, Fox was averaging 2.73 million prime-time viewers in March. MSNBC had 1.16 million and CNN had 1.14 million. The March ratings period ends Friday, and it’s doubtful [...]
More and more calls are coming to shut down the Google Streetview service of UK locations, after serious privacy concerns have been raised and many complaints have been registered. European privacy laws are very strict, as are UK laws in regards to things like security cams. Citizens can even have the windows of their houses [...]
The weird and wonderful life of Hollywood movie star and troubled soul Lindsay Lohan has taken a few more amusing twists. First her on again, off again lesbian romance with DJ Samantha Ronson has been the subject of much speculation, with apparently some pretty spectacular yelling matches and other odd things. It’s also a weird [...]
Okay, this story is just a little weird, but it almost tracks. It also digs down deep into the questions of liability and responsibility for online ad services such as Craigslist. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has sued Craigslist in federal court, trying to get the Erotic Services section shut down, as well as to [...]
What do you do when you are a dictator (elected one, but a dictator none the less) trying to convert your country into a socialist paradise, while facing massive declines in your countries only real export, oil? For most of us, it would be a puzzle too difficult to answer, but not for Hugo Chavez. [...]
Whenever someone asks me how terrorists can manage to stay alive and keep planning attacks, I just point them at North Korea. It isn’t that I think that the dear leader Kim Jong-Il is a terrorists, at least not in the normal term. Rather, that is the world cannot find a way to get dispose [...]
You can file this one in the “stupid idiot protester” bin. British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson was hit with a huge cup full of green custard by a protester from the group Plane Stupid. The group is protesting climate change caused by airplanes, particularly at London’s Heathrow airport. To their credit, I would have never [...]
About 9 years late, or so it seems, certain Zune music and video players have been affected by a date issue which leaves the players locked out and unable to work. It seems that the device has a problem handling leap years, and gets a bit confused. The fix is to let the battery rundown, [...]
The internet is an amazing place in part because it most easily reveals what people really want. Example being that the vast majority of people will say that they have no interest in adult material, but more than 50% of all web surfers have searched for something related. Following up on this report from Hitwise, [...]
This story on the surface seems a little weird, College rectors and presidents calling for a lowering of the drinking age from 21 to 18, because many students still drink at frat parties and such which often leads to binge drinking, as opposed to reasonable social drinking. Read the story here. I want to take [...]
Let this be a warning to anyone drinking too much – if you pass out in the street, you might become part of Google Maps Streetviews. “Bill” here was saddened over the death of a friend, a drank himself into a stupor. He managed to get a taxi ride home, but passed out on the [...]
This one certainly goes into the “weird stories” category. Seems that Her father, her husband, and her mother needed to make some extra money, so they decided to do a holdup somewhere handy. Well, Dad went out and randomly chose the Pizza place where his daughter worked. Of course, he was wearing the standard wig [...]
I don’t usually go off the deep end on stuff like this, but I have to say that the US has sunk to a new sort of cultural low. Double dipping the crap that is celebutard media, as it were. First off, we have Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of (nutjob) singer Britney Spears and a [...]
