I hope you like the new site. The original theme was too difficult to look at, plus it was buggy. Fortunately WordPress themes are aplenty, so it was easy to plug in a new look with just a few clicks. Which brings me too… upcoming posts. I’ve been on this kick about new media and public [...]
June 19, 2007
Gotta love Consumerist. This time Dell responds to the site with an apology after initially threatening Consumerist by asking the blog to remove a post about “confessions” from a former Dell employee. First, it should be acknowledged that there’s good reason sites like Consumerist exist—a general lack of faith in corporate American and customer service [...]
June 16, 2007
Never mind the Transportation Security Administration’s stellar reputation. And the free love its agents get from every other passenger traveling through its security checkpoints. Today the TSA posted on its Web site two videos and an incident report to refute allegations that it was harassing a passenger at Reagan National Airport. The video shows an [...]
June 7, 2007
It’s an elixir of journalism that is being used more and more to sell newspapers and newspaper ads online. The Fourth Estate’s First Amendment rights in practice guarantee that essentially anything can be said about anybody if attached to one magic word: allege. He said, she said. Truth and facts be damned. Public pissing matches [...]
June 5, 2007
Over at Freakonomics there’s an informative Q&A with Google’s Stephan Chau, project manager for Google Maps, regarding the search engine/company’s new Street View feature.
July 8, 2007