Year: 2004
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BusinessWeek on Blogs
Commenting on the nascent growth of ad supported weblogs, BusinessWeek says that Madison Ave. is beginning to notice: Don’t expect a repeat of the dot-com rush that inflated the Web bubble of the late 1990s. "This is a long game, with lots of ebbs and flows," says Henry Copeland, founder of media-buying firm BlogAds. Blogging…
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Kids in a timeshifted world
Tivo – television on your own terms. What would the world be like for kids that grow up knowing nothing else? Alan Taylor writes about his 3 year old’s view of television: First – she doesn’t watch much TV (an allotted hour per day), but when she does watch it, she gets a choice of…
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Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph
This photo will only mean something to a select few people in world. I am honored to carry on the tradition.
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Julia on IM
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MSN Spaces
I’ve been staying up late playing around with Microsoft’s new blogging tool, MSN Spaces. Some pretty neat stuff that should be the buzz of the blogging world tomorrow so I’ve got to bone up. Here’s My Space if you want to see it. And let’s see what a trackback looks like by sending my Firefox…
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Cold Snap – News at 10!
Izumi and I had a laugh at the news this evening. They top story was the cold weather we’ve been having with the mercury dropping (egads!) to the 40’s. The newscast went on for the next 10 minutes talking to people that were complaining or wondering how to keep warm. Throw on a sweater! Wear…
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The end of media as we know it
The creepy tone of the background music sets the stage for this look back at the demise of traditional media as we know it from the perspective of 2014. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Friendster and the trend towards personalized and automated filters to help manage information flow pull down the Fourth Estate. “The New York Times…
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Stormy Monday
It started when the cinnamon toast caught fire in the oven and had to be put out with a saucepan of cold water and ended when Tyler told me over dinner that two older kids passed him on the way to lunch and called him a "twerp"
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Slow News Day in Japan
I just love the Crime column in the English language Yomiuri. It’s either about some extremely gruesome incident which makes you question how people can be raised to be capable of such things or it’s some totally mundane non-event that makes you feel sorry for the totally bored reporter that had to write the silly…