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Posts Tagged Rants & Raves

Public relations ballyhoo

As a journalist with a keen and intense specialization on all things gadget-related, I have constant communication with people who call public relations their life’s calling (although to be honest most of them are just Journalism graduates who got sick of the poor pay). In any case, I like to think I have a healthy [...]


Female and casual gamers

So apparently, there’s this whole line of mobile games based on Paris Hilton. Which in and of itself is completely ludicrous and hilarious, but that’s not what I want to talk about. These games are supposedly based on her personality and will feature her as a character or something (there’s a joke about night vision [...]


Too much

There needs to be cohesion. I like Web 2.0 apps just as much as the next guy, but it’s about how they can simplify my life, not how “cool” it is. Just today I’ve heard of maybe ten different “Web 2.0″ companies that I’ve never heard of before, and of which I don’t have a [...]


What’s Wired

Having worked, to some degree, for both of the following institutions, I am here to educate the public as to what is what. Here’s the deal: There are two different Wired’s. There’s Wired Magazine, and there’s Wired News. Wired Magazine is primarily a print publication, with an accompanying online presence. Wired Magazine is owned by [...]


Brokeback Mountain

I went to see Brokeback Mountain last night, after weeks of wanting to watch the much-talked-about “gay cowboy” love story. There was a lot of hype about the movie; that it was emotionally compelling, that it was one of the few movies that depicted homosexual love in a “realistic” and non-stereotypical way, and that the [...]


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