Regurgitation of content is a fact of life within the tech blogosphere. Steven Hodson wrote about how being doomed to see the same content on site after site it is simply a fact of life especially within the tech blogosphere, as there simply isn’t enough news to go around. We might think that there is [...]
Towing Company Sues Student For $750000 Over Facebook Page – Cease Your Hysterics
April 15, 2010 By 12 Comments
Stop complaining, stop shouting and take some pills for that blood pressure before that big red head of yours explodes. This is a non story, but is an interesting and cautionary tale about publishing things online. The Consumerist and WoodTV.com are reporting this story about a student, Justin Kurtz, who started a Facebook page complaining [...]
The Blogosphere Is Dead And Its Your Fault
October 19, 2009 By 32 Comments
Warning: ** If you’re easily offended I suggest you click off to another blog this instant because I will offend your delicate sensibilities. This post is about the blogosphere in its entirety and not about any one particular individual or their actions. ** I am sick to death of the blogsphere. It’s weak, it’s spineless [...]
How Do You Gauge Credibility?
October 18, 2009 By 1 Comment
An interesting question was inadvertently raised by @SabrinaDent (Sabrinas blog) earlier when responding on Twitter to my post “The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp And Why Bloggers Can’t Be Trusted”. How do you judge credibility online? Credible bloggers are taken plenty seriously – TheStory.ie is an example. This woman has no credibility and never built any. How [...]
FTC Guidelines : They're Not About YOUR Blog!
October 7, 2009 By 7 Comments
I watched the news surface yesterday about the FTC’s guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials and how they now affect bloggers. I read the entire 81 page document (it’s a bit of a drag to read but I recommend that you do), shrugged my shoulders and moved on. I decided to stay out of the inevitable [...]
RIP Journalism and Integrity
July 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
The internet “reduces opinion diversity of opinion”. Not only that, but it’s also responsible for “less minority and female ownership” and declining job numbers for journalists. I know many of you are looking at that and going “WTF Paul, are you delirious? Did you have a bad curry or something? It’s obviously blown what little [...]
CNN reporter linked to Michael Jackson’s death!
July 15, 2009 By 9 Comments
The reporters (and I use the term very loosely) at CNN are apparently so starved for news, so desperate for page views and have such a tenuous grasp on reality that they now resort to groping at the thinnest and most improbable of straws in order to create a headline. Today there was a post [...]
Give an inch. They'll take a mile
November 9, 2008 By 5 Comments
Why do so many people feel an unwarranted sense of entitlement in life? People get something for nothing once and then feel like they are entitled to it forever! I’ve seen this happen with bloggers and more recently I’ve been seeing it where I work at night. All of the people staying where I work [...]
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