If any of these signs apply to you, you might be a faux-President dictator… You live in a “presidential palace” Your government has a Ministry of Information Your police forces are structured nationally rather than locally You have won an … Continue reading
I’ll try to make this quick, since I feel like it’s painfully obvious. Arguing either that social media “caused” these events or had “nothing to do with them” are both stupid arguments. Clearly people are marching in the streets because … Continue reading
Regarding the US State Department’s private vs. public efforts to support the Egyptian protestors, I just found myself in the startling position of agreeing with a statement out of AEI, via Foreign Policy: “The real problem is that when your … Continue reading
Obama needs to denounce Mubarak, and soon. As of this post Egypt has cutoff all communications except land phone lines (edit: looks like the ISP Noor is still up), deployed anti-terror units, and police are setting fires to cars and … Continue reading
Per my earlier tweet: Law of Unintended Consequences: western news becomes shitty and sold out, inspires wikileaks and social media, which free the middle east Not only is there not a single mention of the word “Egypt” above the fold … Continue reading
I’ve never actually had the patience to write up a proper an Ayn Rand rant. Her drivel is just too damned boring and stupid and the people who need to see it discredited won’t read it anyway. But this is … Continue reading
I think the two huge things that technology is changing in online advertising are 1) targeting. And 2) what I am starting to think of as “applitisements”, which is to say: display and mobile ads are going to become more … Continue reading
I’m not a designer but also not wholly ignorant of design concepts, so at the moment the body copy is Meta Serif and everything else is Meta Sans. I feel somewhat guilty that I’m messing with someone else’s thought-out theme … Continue reading
A lot of people have posted or tweeted the tragically comic visual juxtaposition on glennbeck.com before it was scrubbed. But if you actually read the post, you’ll see the same sort of double message in the words as well. Blatantly. … Continue reading
I put together a little primer at work on the FCC’s new net neutrality rules. As I was fact checking myself, a thought struck me… Might the new wireless rules be a politically brilliant policy disaster? Hear me out. After … Continue reading