Crossposted from my CustomScoop blog… As an admitted movie freak, I love summer. As a not-so-closeted lover of all big-budget, terribly cheesey, shoot ‘em up badass popcorn action flicks? I adore summer. Right around Memorial Day the best of the blockbusters start to roll through theaters. This summer was the summer of the “threequels,” with [...]
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Spoilers I’m starting to think that the internet exists primarily as a venue to allow people to anonymously ruin surprises and, as the kids say, “blow up your spot” as it were. Okay, I’m never going to say that again….I can’t pretend to be cool. Cases in point: 1. Harry Potter Leaked- This has been [...]
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Nothing new to say today, but I found this good list of AIR Applications at Offline Tech. Out of the 70 listed, I’ve tried only 8 of them, so I’ve got some playing around to do.
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This post from Shel Holtz hit home with me today. Most understand by now that getting involved with blogging is often defined as “joining the conversation.” Meaning, in part, that most anyone with a blog would love nothing more than the chance to interact with their audience via copious comments. (Not to mention the ego-stroking, [...]
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Last night, while catching up with my RSS feeds, I caught this item from Pete Cashmore at Mashable: Stupid Rumor: Microsoft Buying Facebook for $6 Billion. Whenever a 2.0 service reaches a critical mass and acquisition rumors start, three names immediately come to mind: Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. It’s what you expect. Of course, Google [...]
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First off: Go here and take the “Jaiku, Twitter or Pownce” poll. I’d posted the poll here myself, but it seems to disagree heartily with our WordPress, so it landed squarely in the “DELETE!” bin. Sorry bout that, Geoff! Now, onto business. Over delicious Bluebeery Lager this weekend, my overeager co-blogger informed me of his [...]
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So, the big news today is that Google (they’re a search engine. You’ve heard of them) has picked up Postini for $625 million. It must be great being google: you shell out some cash, and bloggers write your press releases for you. Some opinion pieces on why Google did it: Fred Wilson on What Google [...]
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I was initially a bit “meh” on Pownce, but the cutesy little microblogging platform has grown on me like a fungus this week. It’s possible that I would have liked Twitter just as much…if I’d ever gotten round to actually using the account I signed up for over there. So I guess you can say [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot of posts lately about how social media is tiring. Wasn’t the whole idea of “web 2.0″ to make things easier? To streamline the things we like? To bring together what had previously been in thousands of loosely connected virtual locations? I thought so. And yes, I realize that not everyone [...]
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It really doesn’t come as any surprise that the creators of “The Simpsons” have executed one of the cleverer marketing campaigns I’ve seen recently to promote the upcoming movie version of the long-running cartoon. First, the movie’s website added a “Make your own Simpson’s character” generator, which, while not necessarily original (I made my own [...]
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