Category Archives: Media
When Life Hands You Lemons…
…and pitchers and sugar and water and …, you have to make lemonade.
It’s sad to see magazines dying. The one I’ll eventually miss most is Playboy, but you know if something so established mainstream as Newsweek is hurting, the ad-supported mags going into even greater depth or expressing more diverse views probably can’t stand [...]
Fuck the New York Times
Quite an interesting rant.
Link via POAC.
Comment from Peter Coffee (eWEEK)
I received the following site feedback from Peter Coffee, responding to my rant early last year on the term “exponential growth” which was triggered by my evident misreading of his article at eWEEK. I have HTML-ified the text and added a link to the document he cites—this site’s feedback form reduces everything to ugly bare [...]
BugMeNot Activism
Requiring registration to read a news(paper) site is stupid. It irritates the reader—often sending him elsewhere, it abets spamming, and the information gathered is all but useless: most folks who get their news online are savvy enough to use fake information to begin with. In other words, it’s an unnecessary burden that doesn’t even serve [...]
Crackpots on Both Sides
Can’t we all just get along?
I’ll be (among) the first to say that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and their ilk are contemptible human beings, that they foster division and hatred, and that they are at best media opportunists and at worst sick or even evil. But I’ll also be right up there with “Voltaire” defending [...]
