Things I Hate

SOPA

18 January 2012

“Obviously there’s no censorship in the bill and no one can indicate any censorship whatsoever. It’s not censorship to want to stop illegal activity. That’s all we do. We’re trying to impede illegal activity by foreign websites.” -Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) to the Wall Street Journal   As I read legislators’ responses to the hue [...]

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Vigilantism, Part Two

17 January 2012

Natasha rightly provides some equal time for Mr. Arthur Brisbane in the comments to last week’s reductive outburst on the New York Times’ ‘Truth Vigilante’ flap. We had pretty candid debate about the ‘Truth Vigilantism’ issue during Grey’s Anatomy commercial breaks last week and, as a journalist instead of just a guy who is a [...]

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Vigilantism

12 January 2012

New York Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane blogs today: I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. 1. Yes. 2. Fuck you.  

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We Know Drama, Not User Experience

10 January 2012

Warning: Two marketing posts back-to-back, you guys. I’m sorry. I don’t watch a lot of TV on an actual TV these days and most of the TV that I do watch is time-shifted. We live in the future, you know. Instead, I watch a lot of programming on my iPad. Between Hulu and Netflix and [...]

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The Year of the QR Code: 20Never

6 January 2012

Warning: This post is at least tangentially related to my job as an online marketer. You may wish to avoid it. About three years ago, I radically redesigned my business cards. This was the first card I designed for myself in the wake of pink kind of accidentally becoming my ‘personal brand’* color. I can [...]

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Acronymity

3 January 2012

  Rogue websites – those singularly devoted to profiting from their blatant illegal piracy – restrict demand for legitimate video game products and services – from a statement on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) released by the ESA (Entertainment Software Association); edited by me to include the hyperlink The most frustrating thing to come out [...]

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Sir I Wanna Buy These Shoes

22 December 2011

There’s something heartwarming about a song that seems to advocate that the best way to spend the all-too-brief time before a loved one’s death is shopping at the mall. For stuff you can’t afford, stuff that is at best a distraction from the dismal circumstances of life. It, and by it I mean New Song’s [...]

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A Special Hell Reserved for People Who Talk in the Theater

19 December 2011

It’s basically only acceptable to talk during a movie in three cases – first, when the movie is so awful that it’s subjectively awful and no living thing can find any enjoyment in its viewing; second, when it’s a horror movie, because the sort of fun, pop horror that you want to see in a [...]

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I’m Not Really That Crazy, You Guys

12 December 2011

So I’m driving around on Friday morning and suddenly, a battered-looking U-Haul pulls out onto the street. Maybe I should wait until I see The Gutter King a third time to call that it’s a real thing and not just a hallucination of mine, but I’m a little worried that the third time I see [...]

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Creedthoughts

14 November 2011

When Doogie Hower had a blog, it wasn’t connected to the Internet. I don’t know that a lot of the people watching Doogie Howser, M.D. knew what the Internet was or imagine the thing that it would become. It was just a journal, but we knew that it was hipper and more modern that Kevin [...]

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