Archive for the 'Online' Category


Social Media

1. We want to connect. 2. We want to participate. 3. We want access. 4. We want to know what our favorite celebrities are up to. 5. We want to know someone is reading our complaint to the corporation. 6. We want to put in little to get out a lot. 7. Clutter is our […]

Twitter

I don’t want to tweet. It’s like pissing off a cliff in the dark. No one sees it and you risk getting yourself wet. At best, you screw up and become a pariah. Which is why Twitter is a sea of dropouts and the fawning press trumpeting its IPO doesn’t realize that sites built upon […]

Time Warner Cable

I hate writing them a check every month. All I really want is super high speed Internet and a modicum of TV channels. Since I never watch the boob tube anyway, other than Bill Maher and an occasional other HBO program. I used to get every single channel offered, believing since I was in the […]

Apple’s Mistake

It should have started a subscription streaming service sooner. Once upon a time, Apple was the beacon in the consumer’s eye. Not only did it possess a leader more charismatic than any rock star, it positively dominated complete swaths of consumer culture. It had the iPod, the iTunes Store, the iPhone and the iPad. But […]