Ryan MacMillan

Blender magazine, a publication never knowingly under-filled with spuriously framed lists, has named Apple’s Steve Jobs as the most influential man in Web music. The rest of the top 10 “powergeeks” (sigh) are thus:
2. Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe (MySpace)
3. Chad Hurley & Steve Chen (Youtube)
4. Doug Morris (CEO Universal)
5. Ryan Schrieber (Pitchfork)
6. Ian Rogers [...]

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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion on the boom growth in web2.0 apps:
“We’re a million monkeys running on treadmills, chasing the latest banana.”
Charlton Hestonon a similar issue:
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”

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In news that is sure to herald the collapse of the international financial system, Google has posted quarterly profits of just under a billion dollars - a slight fall on last quarter. The figure, it would seem, is “not as good as analysts had hoped for”. The root of this catastrophic fall in profits is, [...]

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Noted CNN comedy headline inspiration, Jerry Yang, has announced that, in the face of a sixth successive fall in quarterly profts, he is going into seclusion at a mountaintop monastary where he will learn mad ninja skills intends to:
spend the next 100 days or so focused on mapping out a strategic play.”
Reassuringly, he [...]

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20% of the “most dugg” stories at Digg are about Digg itself. Are the other 80% about:
a) Nothing of any interest to anyone other than tragic digital losers,
b) That one guy in Human Resources who smells like chicken,
c) Poststructural literary theory, with reference to the works of Julia Kristeva or
d) Your mum?
Answers to be [...]

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