When people ask me the point of Twitter, I have often pointed to the Twitter stream created by Justin Halpern in which he posts things that his father has said, verbatim.
Continue reading → Shit My Dad Says: But Did Sam Halpern Say it or Not?
When WordPress.com first introduced the Freshly Pressed concept, I was quite excited. Here was an opportunity to learn about blogs about which I was unaware — with 50 million blogs being counted in 2006 and nearly 200,000 new ones being made every day, it’s impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff without some kind of assistance. According to Joy Victory, the Editorial Czar at WordPress, it is not too difficult to get your WordPress blog featured on the Freshly Pressed page.
Each post that makes it to Freshly Pressed contains original content created by the WordPress user. Bad stuff includes (but isn’t limited to) plagiarism, hate speech, fear-mongering, adult/mature content, improperly used images that belong to someone else, spam or content that is primarily advertorial.
Janna snapped this image on the “R Train” to Queens the other day. New York City is big on “Banning the Sugar” bandwagon — and that’s a good thing — because sugar is killing us.
Perez Hilton is one of the most despicable people of the earth. Obviously bullied and put-upon as a child, he seeks his revenge as an adult against those who are prettier, richer and more powerful than he could ever dream to be — and he courts that cruelty by flaying the filthy from a virtual throne. Whether he did or didn’t — concerning Miley Cyrus and an upskirt view — is a conundrum for another day, but the loathsome fact that ABC pulled its advertising from Perez Hilton’s website because of the Cyrus non-event is astounding.
Continue reading → Perez Hilton and ABC: Morality of the Moment and the Convenient Outrage
There’s something rotten in Appleville and thy name is Gray Powell. Gray Powell, if you don’t already know, is the alleged Apple boob who left the next generation iPhone in a bar. Gray is quickly becoming a cultural touchstone: He already has his own gag Fan Page on Facebook, and as of this writing, The Fake Gray Powell already has over 2,500 fans.
Continue reading → Is Gray Powell an Apple Advertising Shill?
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