Supply, Demand, Piracy, and the little lies of Free
One of the more interesting debates I have gotten into recently is one regarding the laws of supply and demand (and cost) for movies and music in the current market. It’s an interesting debate...
Category: Things I hate
Drudgereport Slants the News
Over the last few years, much has been made about the move to “online media”, and that traditional media, from newspapers to radio to television were all doomed as the new wave on online...
the good enuf rvlutn
I have discovered more and more I read the flailing Wired magazine the same way I read The Onion, mostly for a laugh at the outrageous and humorous things that appear there. In the...
Perez Hilton Gets More than Black Eye Over Michael Jackson Attack
it hasn’t been a very good week for Perez Hilton, the screen name for flamboyant “blogger” Mario Lavandeira. First off, he gets into a scuffle in Toronto with Members of the Black Eyed Peas,...
Perez Hilton Insults Dying Michael Jackson
Quite simply, I am shocked and dismays. As many of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I didn’t really like Michael Jackson’s music (rock guy here) but still had respect for...
Under The Hood of FREE!
Welcome to the third part of my look at the world of “FREE!” as proposed and pushed by a few pundits and online bloggers as the future of stuff. I am particularly focused on...
The Lie Of Free Continues
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,...
The Long Lie
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...
Greed Killing Formula 1?
I will be the first person to admit that this is a story that could have been written in any of about the last 10 years. Formula 1 has become the largest sink hole...
What Can Brown Do For You? Go Slow?
Okay, now, it isn’t very often that I do this sort of thing, but damn, I gotta let this one out because it’s driving me batty. It’s a little story of rims for my...
ER Draws Last Breathe; Era of TV Ending?
NBC’s long time hit show ER is grinding to a finish this week, the end of it’s 15th a final season. It’s been a struggle the last couple of years for this “use to...
All The News That Was
Tough times in the economy have just made things worst for the newspaper world. Prior to the arrival of the current economic downturn, the newspapers were already suffering greatly. Increased costs from paper to...
Coming Soon to a Dictatorship Near You
You know all those history books that declared the cold war dead when the Berlin wall came down? Well, they may have been a little premature in their words. Russia, lead by the “not...
Bernie Madoff in Court to Plead Guilty
I haven’t really written about this story before, but it’s a doozy, that is for sure. Bernie Madoff ran a huge investment program that took in upwards to 50 million in investor money, but...
