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07/21/11--12:07: The Narcissistic Side of Social Media (chan 1779010)

Fascinatingly enough, it seems that American individualism has grown from an ego perspective to an American innovation: social media. Before social media existed, there was…. social media. In the form of email newsgroups, irc, and the like. But in the past decade, this has grown into a full-fledged “me” force. Don’t believe me? Just take [...]


08/10/11--03:39: Why SMS is Here to Stay (chan 1779010)

It’s amusing when I read about apps that try to out-do SMS.   Take for example, Facebook with their latest app.  Or iMessage. Guess what, as a person that’s been watching technology trends for the better half of two decades, I can say for certain that SMS is sticking around.  Why?   SMS is a [...]


08/13/11--14:59: BART overstepped boundaries in San Francisco Cell Service Incident (chan 1779010)

Apparently SF BART had shut down cell service for about three hours in the San Francisco area at a few stations where some activists were going to protest.   While I do believe this has some serious free speech implications since they’re trying to pull a whole minority report type of scenario which is against [...]


09/19/11--07:00: Why Mergers Rarely Create Jobs (chan 1779010)

It’s interesting that sometimes you read about politicians trying to sell a sales pitch that is completely false. In this case, five Democrats are pushing the President to push the AT&T merger through without any regards to the DOJ’s decision, and the FCC’s decision. What’s more is that in their letter, something blatantly jumps out. [...]


09/20/11--02:00: Open Letter to Netflix: Why I Sold Netflix and Support Them No Longer As a Shareholder (chan 1779010)

So as of opening bell, I’ll probably no longer be a shareholder of Netflix.   It’s been a good run, but in my opinion, Reed Hastings has finally gone off the deep end when it comes to leading his company.  It’s one thing to make one mistake.  But to follow it up with an entirely [...]


10/06/11--15:34: The Difference Between Right and Legal (chan 1779010)

I hate to say it, but I’m somewhat amused by the whole “Occupy Wall Street” movement. A lot of people are angry because government bailed out big businesses to prevent economic disaster on a national and even global scale. Yet, some taxpayers are miffed (and rightfully so) that there was even a need to do [...]


10/11/11--06:00: What Netflix Needs To Do To Progress Further (chan 1779010)

I have both supported, and spoke highly of Netflix.  I’ve also ripped them to shreds when I found their business decisions to be absolutely horrible, and pulled my money as an investor when it started to do things that was not along this side of visionary.  So with the latest announcement of canning the split [...]


10/24/11--06:00: What They Teach Kids In School These Days… (chan 1779010)

First the front story. I was playing a multiplayer game on Playstation. The basic thought was that someone got mad at my play style and decided to call attention to my connection (which I’ll point out, is Time Warner and even though it usually fails me, it was surprisingly good during this story). So this [...]


10/28/11--06:00: Klout’s Re-Scoring Had Other Things In Mind (chan 1779010)

So if you haven’t heard about the re-scoring, Klout re-did their algorithm. And everyone for the most part got pushed down a few notches. And that created a huge backlash from social media people that used it for a method of distinguishing how they were doing at their jobs. However, I believe there are other [...]


01/19/12--15:50: SOPA/PIPA Makes OPPA (chan 1779010)

I’ve realized something.  SOPA and PIPA together  do a Wonder Twins formation to create OPPA:  Oppress People via Piracy Act.   I mean where else would you use a law that was designated for white collar embezzlement and make it so scary on the Internet that we’re no better than some of the countries that [...]