Category Archives: Too XYZ
The Deaths of Flip, and the Consumer Spectrum
The Flip Camcorder is dead. Cisco, the parent company that bought Flip a few years ago is shutting it down and stopping all production. Not selling it off. Not trying to improve it. Killing it. Period. As a Flip owner, I am quite pissed. It’s one thing when you happen to use a product that …
Embracing the Mess
A mess, even a big one, is not a tragedy. Even if something is so screwed up it has long reaching consequences that get worse with each day they are not addressed, they are still just messes, so long as they are not life threatening to someone. It’s not easy to separate messes and screw …
Extreme Moderation and How to Avoid It
One of my good friends had a birthday this week. The following day on her Facebook status, she mentioned that there were so many baked goods laying around the house from the celebration, and that she was very tempted to have many of them. Her status ended with, “Moderation!” I responded by saying that moderation …
Charlie Sheen in Detroit: Did He Bomb, or Did We?
Charlie Sheen’s opening stop for his “Torpedo of Truth” tour in Detroit on Saturday has been almost universally declared a disaster. Late start time, terrible opening act. Incoherent meanderings, pointless video clips. Booing, walk-outs, demands for refunds. He even reminded the increasingly hostile audience at one point that they had agreed to pay money for …
FiND iT FREDERiCK Launch Party…My Perspective
As I mentioned on Thursday, I was invited to attend a launch party for the brand new FiND iT FREDERiCK Magazine website this last Friday. I did indeed attend, and here is my overall view of the experience, as promised. It’s significant because I don’t go to many of these sort of things. Not simply …
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