Back in March, I was sufficiently irritated by a piece written by Lee Siegel of The New Republic that I took keyboard in hand to respond. Siegel also took heat in the blogosphere for coining the term “blogofascism” (see a response here). What would be the perfect endgame for this situation? How about this: Lee [...]
Round-up: the cool and the crazy
Various and sundry… Hoboken, gateway to America if you’re fresh off the boat, occupies an interesting place in the New York area. A good friend of mine lives there because he spends all of his time in Manhattan, but the rent’s cheap and the trains run late. Hoboken411 is running a few motivational posters for [...]
Does MySpace Work?
MySpace is the hottest social networking site in the marketplace. It’s not just hipster hot, it’s corporate hot, as evidenced by its acquisition by News Corp. Read this interview with Rupert Murdoch about MySpace to get a sense of how he values this asset. One of the biggest perceived values of MySpace is in the [...]
Great moments in literacy
In the far-flung future, linguistics experts will look back and note a sea change in the way we communicate, due to our new digital world. The Internet and e-mail have changed the way that we communicate — specifically, the style with which we communicate. I cite as one example, this exchange which took place in [...]
Spiced Ham
In recent weeks, I have been inundated with comment spam, which I have been able to keep offline, but only with enormous (and tedious) effort. As ticked off as I am about it (a baseball bat keeps popping into my mind), I couldn’t avoid laughing at this one: Name: Kim | IP: 207.210.110.4 Kim Looks [...]
Another one joins the death list.
I am not a person of violence and retribution. But there are times when I am sorely tested… Name: Use Keyword Here | E-mail: You@Your-email.com | URI: http://www.Your-Domain.com/Your-Page.htm | IP: 213.93.153.233 Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user [...]
Rear View Action: Dot Com Days
Recently, I pulled up an old post from The Pop View. I always find it illuminating to go back to what people said in the past. Did they get it right? Have our views changed since then? Anyway, I enjoyed it, so I’ll be doing more browsing through the archives. Today’s item is from June [...]
Creative (perhaps) “writing” (?) — Part 4
[Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.] The latest installment in our ongoing examination of the fine writing staff for the AIM Today home page. Today, we see what they came up with for a link that goes to a Forbes listing of the most entrepreneurial supermodels. Let’s see, gals like Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Tyra [...]
Mickey? Just quit it.
Mickey Kaus can be quite annoying when he hops up on a soapbox and stays up there so long you want to push him off. For some reason, the pro-Brokeback Mountain crowd annoyed him, so he’s been sniping at the movie for weeks. TMFTML points out that Kaus said the film would never do $50 [...]
Creative (perhaps) “writing” (?) — Part 3
I continue to be baffled and/or appalled at the combination of superficiality and unintelligibility offered on the AIM Today home page. In our latest installment (Read part 1 and part 2), someone’s gone link crazy. Here we see a promotion of The Cosmic Diet and a reference to being “on your way to taking up [...]