We’ve been busy at CRO lately, putting out a lot of good holiday tips on everything from Black Friday to the perfect potato latke (don’t ask). But the post that’s gotten the most attention recently is our tip on the perils of turkey fryers, which found its way to Slashfood, Consumerist and Lifehacker, among others [...]
Can you resist the urge? (I’ve already given in; I went out and bought some bagels earlier today. Or is food exempt?)
Chris Bowers at MyDD has a good post up about Thanksgiving, and the fact that its decline as a commercialized holiday actually makes it a more meaningful event:
I, for one, welcome and cherish Thanksgiving while it lasts. Thanksgiving is a holiday that has, for nearly two decades, been all but abandoned as a commercial enterprise. [...]
Paul Boutin has some good advice for Michael Arrington, who tends to take any criticism of TechCrunch as some sort of unwarranted personal attack: Get used to it.
I rarely have a week where someone doesn’t directly or indirectly claim that I, or one of the publications I write for, or everyone who does what I [...]
Back at the dawn of time, NCSA Mosaic allowed you to annotate web sites that you visited. The annotations weren’t actually stored on the sites, of course, but were (if I remember correctly) saved locally on your hard drive. I really liked the feature and was disappointed that it didn’t make the transition to Netscape. [...]
A few months ago, at around the time he left Microsoft, Robert Scoble bemoaned the fact that most bloggers, even those that consider blogging a form of journalism, “rarely call before writing.” He added, “It’s something I hope we can change. Call before running the story. It’s what great journalists do.” At the time, I [...]
OK, it’s not exactly unusual for entrepreneurs to leave the companies they’ve sold, and my old boss Jason Calacanis certainly stayed at AOL longer than a lot of people expected him to. But his announcement this morning that he’s leaving is still something of a disappointment. After all, he came in really believing he was [...]
I haven’t seen “Borat” yet, but I’ve seen more than enough of Borat. That is, I’ve had my fill of Sacha Cohen appearing in full Borat drag on just about every television network, and in most other media outlets from magazines to the web (the guy even did a fashion spread for The New York [...]
We’ve been busy at Consumer Reports. Our latest project: The Shopping Blog, which we’ve rolled out just in time for the holiday season. It’s being penned by Tod Marks, CR’s shopping expert, with help from our network of secret shoppers, our editors and, er, yours truly. We’ve also launched a campaign to educate the public [...]
I have to admit to getting just a little depressed by this post about Lou Reed’s performance at the Web 2.0 conference. Since when did web execs become such stuffed shirts that they can’t stop talking biz for a few minutes to listen to a legend? Thank goodness Lou turned up the volume “so loud [...]