Archive for February, 2007

Stickiness 2.0

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

A friend of mine was telling me about a meeting he attended earlier this week, where the idea of “stickiness” kept coming up. “It felt like 1999,” he said. “Does anyone seriously talk about ‘stickiness’ anymore?” I have to admit that I never liked the term, even when it was in vogue as a [...]

Happy new year!

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

When I was living in Hong Kong back in the early 90s, Chinese New Year was the holiday: Thanksgiving, Christmas and July 4th all rolled into one. The town completely shut down for about a week, and flights were booked solid. While local folks went to visit family on the mainland, we gwailos would [...]

Free Julie Amero!

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

My old pals at DownloadSquad have taken up the cause of Julie Amero, and I feel it’s high time for anyone concerned about justice in the digital age to join them. If you’re not familiar with the details of the case, Amero was working as a Connecticut substitute teacher when, in 2004, she found [...]

Turner’s "bomb scare" worth every penny of $2 million

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

So, the big news yesterday was that Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting division will shell out $2 million to make amends to the city of Boston for the “bomb scare” generated by the company’s guerilla campaign for “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.” Sounds to me like money well spent. While the blogosphere mercilessly mocks Beantowners for [...]