A few years ago the world was introduced to a woman it had no business knowing. A small-minded beauty pageant winner turned governor enthusiastically hopped onto the political stage. She was as unpolished as moose excrement and nearly as popular. That didn’t stop the GOP from making a shameless appeal to the worst of their base by choosing Sarah Palin as their 2008 nominee for Vice President. She lost. Going Rogue Despite her failure, she went on to quit her job as governor. That would….
The Internets have been all atwitter lately with a rumor that China has released a “communist version of Twitter”. Unfortunately, no sources were included in the articles. Is this just crappy journalism or a fabricated story altogether? Doing some research into Chinese microblogging, I came across a fantastic little site called fanfou.com. If you could buy knock-off microblogging sites in Chinatown, this is what you’d get. It’s a near-perfect replica. Though this is likely not the site rumored to have launched lately as it has….
I always hear accusations that women don’t make as much money as men. “Women get paid seventy cents for every dollar a man gets paid for the SAME job!” I don’t see why they hired the woman in the first place if they already had someone doing that job. But hey, she was cheap. Is discrimination really as rampant as people make it sound? Apparently the facts are on their side. It’s a given that women in similar positions make less on average than their….
Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens discussed matters of religion as part of the Munk Debates. There was a lot of hype over the event because of the global fame of the two master debaters. Tickets supposedly were selling for $500 on eBay. There was indeed a lot of potential for interesting debate. These two are true titans in their respective fields. Though they disagree on the debate topic, “Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world”, Hitchens was and still is….
For whatever reason, people who prefer Twitter to Facebook (yes, they exist) often claim that Facebook stole the tweet concept from Twitter and rebranded it as a status update. Well, now Twitter has stolen the Like button. Their version was just launched today. It’s very similar to TweetMeme, but with integration directly into Twitter. I’m not giving up on Twitter entirely, and I think with their Promoted Tweets and Trending Topics, Twitter is becoming a serious player in online communication. However, they’ll likely always be….
At long last Twitter has come up with a way to make money! I always imagined they’d do it by opening up little shops across the globe and installing tremendous loudspeakers in them. Then, they could have Leonard Nimoy read your tweets to all of mankind! I’d easily pay a dollar for that. And if even half of its 100 million users did so, they’d make….a lot! Surely enough to pay Leonard Nimoy.
I really hate all the blaming of “so-called” fans of Conan O’Brien. It was constantly repeated in Oprah’s discussion with her audience after the Interview with Jay Leno. Ninety-seven percent of her audience was on Conan’s side, and she asked several times, “Where were you when he needed you?” Two of the fans in the audience admitted to not watching him religiously.
I mentioned my position on the late night craziness earlier, but came across some interesting facts to post. First of all, I want to say that the future of television is going to be very different. It’s going to have to be. With DVRs and the Internet, people don’t watch TV like they used to and it’s only going to become more affected as time goes on. So, they have to create a new business model for it.