Monthly Archive for September, 2011

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Google Doesn’t Get People, It Sells Them

Published by jimkem on September 6, 2011 in Asides. Closed

“They have lots of people, lots of servers, they have Android, they have Google Docs, they just bought Motorola. Most people would say ‘we’re the users, and the product is advertising’,” he (Don Norman) said. “But in fact the advertisers are the users and you are the product.”#

I have to say my perception of Google over the last couple of months has taken quite a solid bashing.The tip of the thread was the whole Google/Android patent fiasco.

All you need to know is that Google is being a contemptible little bitch.

To quote John Gruber: The truth has an anti-Google bias.

I’ll write up something full-blown about this (and boy is there a lot of material) once I get enough downtime.

The Blog-Gobbler

Published by jimkem on September 3, 2011 in Entries. Closed

Think of one thing that killed off blogs….

They’re not dead, fine, but there are an awful lot less of them in contrast to, say, 5 years ago.

While driving back from work the other day after I settled the money-end of this site’s hosting service (I’d recommend concentrating on the road, though); I had a brainwave.

Twitter.

More than just blogs on its hit list, comments probably got snuffed out too – magnitudes more than blogs. I remember back in the day when even a half-baked entry could garner comments from far and wide. People would link to each others’ entries and a community grew out of like-minds congealing between them and their writing, rather than in-between 140-character wisecracks.

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I’ll Tell You What This Is

Published by jimkem on September 3, 2011 in Entries. Closed

The comments are closed. Sorry, but they just are.
You probably aren’t crying, why should you, the rug was never pulled under anybody let alone you. The rug wasn’t even there. For god sakes, the rug……Hah, I’m off track.

I needed a place to vent my ‘fascination burnout’. Coupled with the annoying desire to write about anything and the fact that, all said, I’ve counted 16 different websites and blogs that I have authored over the years; most of them while I was between 13-17 when I had too much free time and even more hormones. They didn’t amount to much, which was fine, but they did manage to etch into my thick head that I had a love for writing. A love for opinion, for argument, for presentation, for communication, for language, for Truth.

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