The Zeitgeist

Lots of people are scratching their heads over Maureen Dowd’s NYT hack job on Twitter. Really, not a lot of analysis is needed: H.G. Wells had her pegged almost a hundred years ago…
New and stirring ideas are belittled, because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises, “Why, then, are you not [...]

There has been much moaning about the departures of really well-known names from Yahoo. Now, I don’t know any of the folks involved, but if you compare all of the criticisms about what Yahoo has not been doing over the part few years in terms of innovating and getting new products out and or [...]

Paging Dr. Freud…
Ever notice something interesting about Twitter’s “FailWhale”..?

All the little birdies are not all flying in the same direction. Is someone subtly commenting on what happens when twitter is down or over capacity..?

Clearly there’s message in there.

So, my 7 yr old daughter surfed on over to Disney this evening after finsihing her homework to play a few games.    No matter what game she tried to play she got a “redirect” message (see below - talk about your poor site design), and then a notice that the game she selected (and it [...]

Tags: Apple, Disney, Games

Update: The Huffington Post’s Eric Williams has even more on this, and coins the term of the week:  “Flag Hag.”  Perfect.
So, in an unbelievably asinine piece, the LA Times has declared, as part of some really poor reporting centering on how self-proclaimed “conservatives” are upset with Google’s little logos commemorating historical events, that “public [...]

Tags: , Google, LA Times, Patriotism

Apparently a 6th grader, Arjun Mehta,  in San Jose landed $6.5M in a series A round round led by Easton Capital, Menlo Ventures, STIC and Novel TMT Ventures for his idea of an in-game commerce system called Playspan.
My first reaction is a combination of “Wow… smart kid!” and “Holy crap.. we ARE [...]

The NYTimes has killed of their ill-considered “Times Select” service (dubbed a “paywall” by most observers). Thanks goodness, I say: About freakin’ time!
What was shocking to me about Times Select was how clear it was that the NYTimes management just didn’t get the idea that putting its single most valuable [...]

The Jedi waved his hand and said “This is not the site you are looking for… if you’re looking for that movie, that is…”

I’ve been a semi-active twitterer for the last year or so. The draw to many people I know about Twitter is the idea that they can get, at a glance, a look into what their friends and acquaintances are up to. However, if you look at what people actually twitter, its not really [...]

Paul Saffo predicts the end of the US as we know it “by the middle of this century.” In this short YouTube snippet he briefly explains why the rise of City States (think: “Singapore” but hopefully with civil liberties) that are independent socio-economic zones are the future. It’s an interesting outtake from a clearly longer [...]