May 2009
40 posts
April 2009
31 posts
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
– Winston Churchill
Qwitters on Twitter
zadi:
Oprah is bored with Twitter and Nielsen finds majority quit Twitter after only a month.
(via fimoculous / baltimore sun)
Not quite sure how Nielsen is gathering their info, but this doesn’t surprise me. I think there are a couple of things happening.
Social Media fatigue.
Not being able to figure out how to use Twitter effectively.
Realization that most of the world consists of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Howie Day (8)
Matt Nathanson (7)
Lil’ Wayne (5)
Bob Dylan (4)
Death Cab for Cutie (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Personalized Alltop.com Page →
I stopped using alltop.com when igoogle came around, but this feature has brought me back.
TweetDeck Adds Features, Facebook Integration →
Social Media and the Culture of Change →
It’s been a turbulent 2009 for many social media stalwarts. Facebook has battled users over it’s new Twitter-like interface, and its broadly bemoaned change in terms of service. After last year’s…
Songs Reimagined as Windows Dialog Boxes →
Brilliant for a Friday…my favorite:
5 Hit Songs That Almost Didn't Get Released →
He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup.
– Noel Gallagher, on his brother Liam [via TwentyFourBit]
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a...
– Jon Postel - One of the “fathers” of the modern inernet
Ghostbusters Wii Game Coming in June →
There are actually two Ghostbusters games coming this year…one a more realistic version tailored for next gent consoles and this one for the Wii. I’m actually pretty stoked about the way this one looks too.
"Monster Cable Sucks" →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Phoenix (2)
The Lonely Island (2)
Flying Lotus (2)
The Beatles (1)
Semisonic (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
They’re going to give a lot of people headaches
– Ozzie Guillen, about the Kansas City Royals
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-5) →
Flying Lotus (19)
Kings of Leon (12)
Lil’ Wayne (3)
Matt Nathanson (3)
Nirvana (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Microsoft Commercials More About HP Than...You... →
These commercials have always struck me as odd, but aside from the obviously phony “real life” actors, I couldn’t put my finger on it. Gizmodo helped me sort it out:
“…as any Apple fanboy knows, with Apple, your premium pays for the software, and for Microsoft (primarily a software company!) to take the position that software has no impact on value is an odd...
Iowa's "Got your Prop 8 right here, California" →
Really NY Times?
joshuatopolsky:
By the end of the year, consumers are likely to see laptops the size of thin paperback books that can run all day on a single charge and are equipped with touch screens or slide-out keyboards.
Really guys? All day on a single charge? “Touch screens” or slide-out keyboards? Okay.
New Nine Inch Nails Record...April Fool's →