by The Wordyeti | Jan 5, 2007 | journalism
Dem. Congressman holds press conference in Second Life The techno-optimists will condemn this as another example of the messy real world intruding on their utopian cyber-reality (although damn few people still subscribe to this Pollyannaish view of the web as a place...
by The Wordyeti | Dec 11, 2006 | journalism
Seems that the landscape is changing on this – just a little bit at a time, but the fact that some people are daring enough to swim against the current seems to be paying off … admittedly, mainly in media coverage about how daring they are. But as this...
by The Wordyeti | Dec 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
I was wondering WTF was up with all the goddam spam lately. I had chalked it up as just being symptomatic of the Christmas season, when retailers, online and off, all hawk their wares. Apparently, not.The big problem these days is that the spammers have enlisted an...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
You gotta love any article about the incredible shrinking newspaper audience that includes this graf: If you agree with me that the newspaper business has been on a slow, unstoppable train ride to hell for many decades and that the Web has only accelerated its...
by The Wordyeti | Nov 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Blogcarnival? Isn’t that like a flea circus?I’m not sure if this is smart, or smacks of flopsweat desperation. Which probably means that I’ll try it while being somewhat revulsed with myself for trying it. To be charitable, a Blogcarnival is an...