On the Sirius Tip – The Audio
April 2, 2008Hey all, Here’s the audio from today’s Sirius appearance. Good times. [audio:sirius.mp3]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
I’m New to the Job Thing and Into Web Media. What Systems Should I Learn?
March 30, 2008I feel like I’ve run into iterations of this question a few times lately, so here go some words of whizzzdum. If I were some 21-year-old dude again, but my 21-year-old self was transported to 2008 and I was looking for a job in media websites, I’d pick up some books on the following languages […]
Going A Bit Too Far With Web Advertising
March 20, 2008I’m all for innovative Internet advertising — it puts enchiladas on my table — but Phorm’s plan for tracking users’ comprehensive Internet behavior via their ISP seems a bit overboard. The privacy concerns are obvious, so I’ll come at this from a business perspective. Phorm on its face is obviously bad for individual media outlets, […]
I’m a White Person, and I Like Stuff
March 18, 2008http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com Granted, the title “stuff liberal white yuppies like” is a lot more accurate, but this is still quality satire. Here is a good example; I had a design prof in college who loved AdBusters. (Ironically she was not white.) Advanced white people will supplement No Logo with a subscription to AdBusters, where they will […]
Awesome Maps Site
January 29, 2008I just happened across strangemaps.wordpress.com, which is a site dedicated to — believe it or not — strange and interesting maps. If you like geography, history or pretty much anything statistical, you should check it out. Here’s a thought-provoking map of religion in the United States, with the light blue being counties that have more […]
Free!
January 25, 2008The Atlantic Monthly just opened up its paid site to be free to web users. I was just saying the other day how I had heard this 2005 article about talk radio was an excellent portrait of the industry, and that I wished the site were open to non-subscribers so I could read it. Obviously […]
AT&T
January 16, 2008Agreed on this one: Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? I’ll decline the surveillance service, thanks, and I too don’t envy their customer service workers.
Pat’s Going to Michigan
January 14, 2008I got the good news on Friday: I’ll be heading this fall to the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan to be part of the class of 2010. I mentioned this fall that application essays were sapping my blogging resolve, so now yinz know what that was about. I’m definitely relieved to […]
Firefox
January 6, 2008Though I’m a huge Firefox booster, lately version 2.0.0.11 has been eating up virtual memory like a fat dude at a Louisiana Chinese buffet. And that’s both on my home PC (which is mad old) and work PC (which is still sorta old but faster, like Bruce Smith in his waning days.) Version 3.0, now […]
Strangest Brand Partnering of the Day
December 11, 2007I just saw this today: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/fox-news-for-iphone/ Fox News and Apple? That one just strikes me as a really unlikely pairing. But maybe Apple devotees have become so contrarian-cool that they’ve abandoned the leftist political views of the urban traditional-cool and embraced right-wing viewpoints as a sarcastic collective paean to right-wing America.