Twitter’s unreliability is well-known, and certainly calls into question the fact that all these messaging start-ups and social-networking features that are supposedly killing e-mail still might not be stable enough to overhaul the way we communicate.
Webare on Twitter
29 February 2008
If you trespass on my flat, I can throw you out (exclude you from my home). If you steal my car, I can take it back (exclude you from my car). But once you know my song, once you read my book, once you see my movie, it leaves my control. Short of a round of electroconvulsive therapy, I can’t get you to un-know the sentences you’ve just read here.
The Guardian on Intellectual Property
28 February 2008
Perhaps social media presents a clear and present danger to SEO? I mean, when social news sites can easily outrank original source documents — and you’re the author of that document — what, sit back and suck it up?
Danny Sullivan (Commenter) on SEO
What gets me is that they had high-paid executives sitting around a table, drinking this dreck and all nodding approvingly, “Oh yes, this is what America wants, a ‘light, crisp, refreshing’ beverage that tastes like Cheney sputum.”
Wolfrum on Caffeine-Free Diet Pepsi
27 February 2008
Facebook Allowing Flash Applications: You and everyone within earshot of your computer is going to love this autoplaying song.
Vitamin Briefcase on Facebook
The Good:
Inviting game play and puzzle solving which keeps the player engaged and wanting more.
The Bad:
Minor touch screen oddness.
Rough on people who dislike anthropomorphic giant chickens.
ArsGeek on Puchi Puchi Virus
26 February 2008
I always have good, nay, great, intentions but they are often thwarted by the universe or karma or the fact that instead of being cooperative my body decides that is in no mood for productivity.
No Pasa Nada on Productivity
With all due respect, I think that the time has come in this country (assuming you’re in the USA) where we aren’t “willing to hear everyone’s input.” Present company excepted, of course, but there are simply far too many people in “the God camp” who are unable or unwilling to use the mental faculty for reason with which evolution has endowed them.
Woody Tanaka (Commenter) on Religion
25 February 2008
Management is about process not product. Nobody cares about the content of a proposal, not really. Managers want a PERT chart, a spreadsheet, and a zero-risk guarantee of publications and granted degrees. ISO900x, Mil-Spec, Six Sigma… nowhere does a product sold for profit appear.
Uncle Al (Commenter) on Management
That’s 13 months of Xbox Gold goodness for $28.75.
That’s almost as cheap as the Xbox HD-DVD drives are going to be!
ArsGeek on Xbox HD-DVD