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TechCrunch is a Design Disaster

Posted on January 6, 2009
Filed Under BS-Free Advice | Leave a Comment

If a blog could ever look like a war zone, TechCrunch is the Gaza Strip. The world’s most popular technology blog has been updating its look and feel lately and whoever is behind the design clearly graduated from the Academy of Chaos and Clutter.

TechCrunch today serves as the perfect case study in bad design. While I don’t want to give Michael Arrington too much free advice, I do think it’s worthwhile to point out some things that might be beneficial to other blogsters.

Twitter is A Great Big Pussy Just Waiting to Get Fucked

Posted on January 5, 2009
Filed Under Social Media Stupidity | 4 Comments

When Tony Montana told his right hand man Manny Ribera, “This is paradise, I’m tellin’ ya. This town like a great big pussy jus’ waitin’ to get fucked” in the classic movie, Scarface, he might just as well have been talking about services like Twitter.

Full of gullible, self-absorbed idiots, Twitter has seen its fair share of stupidity. From twats who were unable to figure out that it really wasn’t ExxonMobil taking the time to explain the Exxon Valdez spill to twats who were apparently incapable of figuring out that Al Gore would probably not refer to himself as the inventor of global warming, it’s no surprise that phishers have started to target Twitter.

Why Silicon Valley Won’t Become the New Detroit

Posted on January 4, 2009
Filed Under Green Smoke | 2 Comments

A few months ago, I discussed why I believe VC infatuation with cleantech would hurt Silicon Valley but since United States President-Elect Barack Obama seems committed to the idea of a “Green Revolution”, I figured it was a good time to shift some of my debunking to the nascent “cleantech” industry.

My first substantial post of 2009 kicks off my cleantech/green bullshit column: Green Smoke.

Thank you from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales

Posted on January 2, 2009
Filed Under Social Media Stupidity | 2 Comments

Dear Reader,

Since July 1, more than 125,000 of you have donated $4 million. In addition, we’ve received major wire transfers from Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC totaling $2 million. This combined revenue will cover our operating expenses for the next few months, at which point I’ll be asking for your financial support again.

Your donation makes you a key supporter of my jet set lifestyle, and pays for:

• Day-to-day operations: food, travel, massages.
• Continued development & improvements to my personal brand.
• Outreach events like Wikipedia Academies: in-person workshops where I hit on and grope female attendees.

Watch Out Now: The Drama 2.0 Show is Evolving

Posted on December 30, 2008
Filed Under Commercial Interruptions | 6 Comments

The New Year is upon us and that means it’s time to take stock of the past year and to plan for the next.

The Drama 2.0 Show launched in June 2007 and over 375 posts and a year and a half later, it came time for me to look at where The Drama 2.0 Show is, how it fits into my life and where it should go (if anywhere).

Loic Le Meur, Michael Arrington: You Will Respect My Authoritah (Even Though I Don’t Know the Difference Between Authority, Reputation and Credibility)

Posted on December 30, 2008
Filed Under Social Media Stupidity | 8 Comments

Loic Le Meur is calling for Twitter to change its search algorithm to be “authority-based.” Michael Arrington thinks that’s a good idea.

I don’t use Twitter so I really don’t give a shit about how people search through the noise on Twitter. I frankly don’t know what they’re looking for (there’s no signal). As such, searching for valuable information on Twitter is kind of like searching for a $100 bill at the local sewage treatment plant: even in the rare case that you find what you’re looking for, you still get the shit end of the deal. Literally.

30+ Websites for the Unemployed

Posted on December 29, 2008
Filed Under Lots of Lists | 5 Comments

Did you lose your job at Yahoo? Did Mahalo ship your job to the Philippines? Were you shocked to learn that Seesmic was not a good career choice?

Are you wondering what to do with all of your free time now that you’re collecting government cheese?

I’m told that posts containing useless lists are good for traffic so I’m going to test this out. Here are websites that are great if you’re unemployed and have a lot of time to kill.

Animals

A Personal Appeal from Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales

Posted on December 28, 2008
Filed Under Social Media Stupidity | 5 Comments

Dear Reader,

Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world’s five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?

Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. Unlike popular websites, such as Facebook and Digg, We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three.

Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose, including pedophilia. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars, which includes my dinners and massages in Moscow. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003 as a proxy for building my personal brand.

My Last Post on Robert Scoble

Posted on December 24, 2008
Filed Under Culture & Technology | 6 Comments

To anyone with a normal professional, family and social life, the fact that Robert Scoble has a problem has been obvious for a long time.

In perhaps my harshest criticism of the man to date, I responded to a post in which he noted that he often asks himself whether he should respond to another email or change his son’s diapers, writing:

Scoble has to ask himself whether he should let his child fester in shit or respond to another email?

The Perfect Last-Minute Stocking Stuffer: An Investment Stake in Ning

Posted on December 23, 2008
Filed Under Web 2.0 Kool Aid | Leave a Comment

Doing some last minute shopping for a special someone? Give the gift of double viral hype: an investment stake in Ning.

You’re probably asking “How?” Ning, after all, is a privately-held company. That’s true, but one of its investors is the Legg Mason Opportunity Trust (LMOPX), a mutual fund that you can buy into.

The fund is run by famed manager Bill Miller, who is the proud recipient of San Francisco Chronicle writer Chuck Jaffe’s “The Lump of Coal (mis)manager of the year” award for 2008.

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