Archive for April, 2007
The Pirate Bay – viral marketing at its most embarrassing
The Pirate Bay is a viral marketing smash hit. Words just can’t describe how truly successful this site has been at not only duping people for money, but at convincing people there’s some Robin Hood style motive at play.
TPB is a torrent website. Basically it’s an index of stuff you can steal – music, videos, computer [...]
The RIAA is right, it’s you that’s wrong
As a part time troll it’s long been my style to defend companies and ideas that the ignorant masses rally against. Particularly if they’re rallying for a stupid reason – like having to pay for music.
The freedom to make your own opinion appears to be quite rare or under-used these days. The internet has provided [...]
Shock – Companies give themselves preferential treatment
I’ve read two posts today that have made me giggle like a girl. Both of them focused on the insane notion that companies giving themselves preferential treatment is some sort of evilness or conflict of interest!
Neither post supported the concept and thought it was unfair or unethical or hypocritical for a company to elevate their [...]
Digg vs. Reddit vs. Netscape – Who’s got the goods
Digg this
First let me start by saying I’m an avid user of digg. I waste loads of time there every day. But digg is far from perfect and it’s pretty much degenerated into i-am-bored.com with voting.
I won’t bore anyone by describing what digg, reddit and netscape are. If you don’t know what they are get [...]
Online Office Suites
Digg this
Ever feel like you might be in a dream? I have this recurring dream it’s the early 90’s and I’m testing out some shareware alternative to Microsoft Office.
It’s recurring because people keep trying to reinvent the wheel using a very rectangular block of concrete and no chisel.
There’s nothing wrong with the theory of online [...]
Web 2.0 is dead, long live boredom
Digg this
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 has been described as many things by many people. The truthiest definition would be from the guy who coined the term – Tim O’Reilly. It’s a shift in business models. Evolution would be a better way to describe it but that word scares the Christians and they’re about due [...]
