Month: June 2007
FBI and Universities
Ok so I don’t have much to add this other than stupid government. Basically the FBI has decided that to “fight terrorism and student extremists” they are promoting a set of guidlines(PDF) to pinpoint potential foreign spies or terrorists. Not a bad idea, however bad plan, because they basically say that students can be interested […]
Advertising and the Blogosphere
TechMeme and the rest of the blogosphere is going crazy over the recent disclosure of an advertising campaign through Federated Media and Microsoft. Personally I couldn’t care, advertising is just that advertising, a way to pay the bills for these blogs. As long as people disclouse the difference between ads and their acutal content there […]
MySpace vs. Facebook
Duncan Riley at TechCrunch wrote an interesting article about MySpace and Facebook. I have to frankly agree with him, even though I despise MySpace for a great many reasons, the numbers tell a different story users are still being attracted to MySpace. However the people that I have seen being attracted to MySpace still tends […]
Google Reader
I have been using Google Reader for the past couple of weeks and I started using the sharing feature. If anybody wants to keep up with what all I am reading and all the cool stuff that I find out on interwebs, subscribe to my shared items feed – available here. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/06836422528150126485 Obviously you don’t […]
What Is Meant by Being Too Old?
So everyone on Techmeme is talking about The Age Question, the idea that someone who is over 25 or so is no longer able to come up with a new idea for the internet. Frankly this is a stupid argument, Venture Capitalists by the very idea of what they do shouldn’t care about someone’s age. […]