Category: Opinion

Stop Whining About AT&T

Stop Whining About AT&T

They say if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Well I’m doing nothing to help with bad AT&T service. In fact, I’m going to encourage it by buying another iPhone. So screw all of you people whining about dropped calls and slow internet.

Tweeting Through The Grief

Tweeting Through The Grief

After a rough week surrounding my first Mother’s Day without Mom, a look back at how we grieve and how social media can help us in those times of loneliness

Why Trains Are Still The Future

Why Trains Are Still The Future

On this week’s Real Time with Bill Maher, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat was on the panel, decrying Amtrak and how it is a government-funded waste of taxpayer dollars because the service is provides is so terrible. This is why he is wrong.

Why The Kids At Hot Topic Need To Get Off Of My Lawn

Why The Kids At Hot Topic Need To Get Off Of My Lawn

In spite of what I tell myself, 35 is old – at least to Bieber-loving 14 year-olds. But as a 35 year-old, I got to play all of the great video game consoles when they came out. Suck on that, Millenials!

Pitcher Oliver Perez #46 of Mexico throws a pitch against Australia during the 2009 World Baseball Classic

Professional Sports Should Boycott Arizona

With the new (unconstitutional) anti-Mexican law having been enacted in Arizona, professional sports should give back and take the lead in the 21st Century’s civil rights movement. In doing so, they might even win a new audience.

Apple Is Ruining The Blogosphere

Apple Is Ruining The Blogosphere

Apple is the low-hanging fruit of tech writing. Things seem to have come to a head with the iPhone 4G leak. It’s time for the blogosphere to stop reporting on Apple at the expense of better, more interesting news.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz

Marty Markowitz Is An Apple Fanboy

Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Borough President, has his priorities way out of whack and clearly does not know what Brooklyn, home to more blogs per capita than any other place in America, really needs. (Warning: Contains my angry salty language)

More Travel Fees To Come

More Travel Fees To Come

Just in time to book your summer vacation, now airlines will charge you to use the lavatory and bring a carry-on.

Calling all bullshittapotomuses…here kitty kitty

Calling all bullshittapotomuses…here kitty kitty

In the perfect world, a client needs someone who knows the Social Media scene & not only gets it but can set the tone for a brand. Oh yeah, and someone who knows that control is futile.

Possible Flaws In The iPad Plan

Possible Flaws In The iPad Plan

It seems to me that the iPad amounts to spending $500+ for the privilege of having a single device that can do a bunch of things okay – things that are already being done very well by other devices that I own.

Tramp Stamp

Lindsay Lohan Meet Social Media

There is a big difference between a milkaholic and a delusional alcoholic, right? Some attorneys do not seem to agree, and decided to take on E*Trade for $100,000,000 (yes, one hundred million dollars).

Ignore the Fanboys, Decide For Yourself What Gadget’s Worth Your Time

Ignore the Fanboys, Decide For Yourself What Gadget’s Worth Your Time

Fanboys want to tell you what gadgets you should or should not buy. Don’t let them. Read and decide for yourself what gadget is best for you and your needs.

Apple: The Scarlet Letter Of Removal

Apple: The Scarlet Letter Of Removal

Yet another app has fallen victim to Apple’s opaque approval/removal process. The Suicide Girls’ app has been removed from the App Store, while SI’s Swimsuit App, the Playboy app, and numerous sex apps remain. This practice will not likely end.

The World Loves a Dubeshag

Era of The Social Media Dubeshag

Social media vernacular is amazing in its reach, and often hilarious in its final accepted form. Crowd sourcing is certainly interesting, and when you apply it to linguistics you never know what you may get. There is usually a semi-logical genesis for the terms we use. For example, in the world of online gaming the [...]

Sorry Mashable, But Your IPhone App is Way Slow.

Sorry Mashable, But Your IPhone App is Way Slow.

I want to start this by saying that I am very fond of the people over at Mashable and have nothing but respect for them. Not to mention that it is always a treat to see Pete Cashmore’s adorable face flowing through my Twitter stream, but I’m not impressed with the Mashable Iphone app.  Now, [...]

Facebook Groups Reach New Low In Wake Of Domestic Terrorism

Facebook Groups Reach New Low In Wake Of Domestic Terrorism

Facebook users reached a new low today, sympathizing and glorifying the actions of a disturbed man. If you are a fan of Joe Stack or what he did, you are a fan of terrorism. There is no way around it.