Dear Movie Studios, When I can’t skip ahead, access the main menu or even hit “stop” during your stupid trailers and ads on a movie I paid to rent, you’ve gone too far. It took me literally 10 minutes to finally get to the main menu so I could start the movie – and that [...]
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Oh, Zuckerberg. You said you heard us. You said you’d change. You said, “There needs to be a simpler way to control your information. …We will add privacy controls that are much simpler to use.” Today those changes began to roll out and, at first glance, “simpler to use” didn’t quite make the final cut. [...]
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Hilarious. Someone has decided to create a mock BP PR Twitter account and, dang it’s funny. Horribly satirical, biting and dark but really, really funny. Needless to say, BP isn’t happy about this. Maybe it’s because the fake BP Twitter account has 40,000 more followers than the legit one. The person behind the fake account [...]
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An interesting discussion on the future of newspapers (and news) involving one of my favorite bloggers, Jeff Jarvis. Worth the time if you have 26 minutes to spare. I agree that newspapers probably won’t be around (much) in five years, but I think news will be thriving; format is largely irrelevant. The only reason newspapers [...]
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My Pandora experience 3
I’m new to Pandora. I was enjoying the service with the exception of a few skanky American Apparel ads. I’m not sure what they were advertising exactly, but it must have been some kind of shirt because the girl in the ad wasn’t wearing anything else. Ahem. So I shot off an email to Pandora [...]
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