Month: July 2009

  • zug.com turns it up to 11 on Verizon over privacy

    Remember the original Spinal Tap movie in which the amplifiers go to 11? Voila! Instant meme. Well, I’ve just read a blog post from zug.com called “The Verizon Prank” in which John Hargrave risks big dogs and angry neighbors to make a point I wish more people were concerned about: lax privacy controls. Maybe we have…

  • amazon.com redefines doubleplusgood for the 21st century

    On the off-chance you haven’t heard about amazon.com erasing Orwell novels from Kindle users’ devices, here’s the coverage from nytimes.com. You really have to congratulate amazon.com for creating new levels of nested metaphor. My Room 101 isn’t rats: it’s DRM.

  • Currensee gets it

    I often use my blog to diss marketing that’s stupid, misleading, dangerous or derivative.  This time it’s my pleasure to share marketing that’s on it…at the top-dead-center of the power stroke…so damn good it’ll make your day. Coffee lovers often talk about the “blend” — a mystical combination of the beans, the roasting and the…

  • Lunch with a former colleague …

    Lunch with a former colleague I hadn’t seen in 7 years. People change a lot/don’t change at all.

  • All clogged up

    This is going to be a short and badly written blog post. It’s devoid of content. It has no theme. It really won’t make that much sense. I’m trying to expunge a serious case of writer’s block by — what else — writing about it. And I’ve been cursed at the worst possible moment. I need…