This Global Warming (sic) thing is kicking up a notch this week, with Al Gore scheduled for two major appearances in Washington (DC, home of the crack-addict mayor, as opposed to State, birthplace of grunge, Bill Gates and the world’s nastiest coffee).
Gore is set to solo before Rep. John Dingell’s all powerful Energy and [...]
One of the most common comments I get when discussing blogging with non-bloggers is that they wouldn’t know what to write about. It’s almost as if they feel there’s some kind of Orwell-esque Blog Police out there who seek out the ‘less interesting’ contributors and send them off to toil away under Napoleon’s iron rule [...]
Now that Al Gore has received his Oscar, it would appear that it’s now safe for criticism of the whole ‘global warming’ thing to ramp up.
A couple of weeks back we had the revelation that Gore’s 10,000 sq ft Nashville home churns through approx 221,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, compared with an [...]
The lovely fellows at Joost have just provided us, the humble Beta testers, with additional invitations to hand out to friends etc.
If you’re keen to give Joost a try but don’t feel like bidding for an invite on eBay, drop me a line and I’ll send you one. In the event of demand exceeding supply, [...]
Last month at Reuters:
Viacom demands YouTube pull down videos
This week at The Onion:
Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site
Heh. Heh heh heh..
I’ve recently decided to sell my car (sorry Jon – my ‘hairdresser mobile’). Although TradeMe Motors is the popular choice, there are thousands of listings and (thanks to TradeMe’s pretty reasonable pricing model) much of these are slow-moving (i.e. dodgy) dealer stock.
With all this ‘noise’, surely buyers would prefer simply looking in the paper, [...]
Ok so this isn’t really relevant to the themes usually explored in this blog, but I’m hoping you’ll humour me ‘cos this is without doubt the funniest thing I’ve heard in years. And I swear it’s true.
My mother’s best friend (I’ll refer to her as JR to protect anonymity, though I’m not sure how long [...]
Every now and then you come across an idea so completely useful and straightforward that you wonder why it took so long to come about. Yahoo Pipes is a perfect example, and I really encourage you to check it out.
There’s a whole lot of really useful information flying around this interweb-thingy, yet so much of [...]
I hate to say I told you so, but…
Telecom chief executive Theresa Gattung will leave New Zealand’s largest listed company on June 30.
Ok can’t resist. I told you so.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, YouTube CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley has announced plans to start sharing advertising revenue with content creators.
This is going to be really interesting. Stay tuned for some big developments (will elaborate later).
Told you so.
