Ryan MacMillan

In a shocking, I say, shocking, development today it has been revealed that about a quarter of kids between the ages of 8 and 12 are evading the age restrictions on social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and (the inexplicably still-popular) MySpace.
Goodness, whoever would have suspected that such a thing would have come to pass? [...]

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Is it time for a moritorium on Alternative Reality Games? Io9, the sci-fi arm of the Gawker Media empire, seems to think so. Incensed with the (indisputable) poorness of the Dark Knight ARG, Io9 editor Annalee Newitz and her colleagues decided to invent an ARG that was so quiveringly generic, people would think it was [...]

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You know that sense you sometimes get that, well, maybe some of our colleagues in brand management are, how to say, deranged? And you know that other sense, the dread clutch of confirmation that, yes, indeed, some of our colleagues in brand management are deranged?
Well, here’s that confirmation (probably NSFW and, in my opinion, NSFEAAS)
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It’s a bad week for the interwebs, kids, first there was the terrible, awful, butt-achingly bad idea that was Cuil (see below for proof, facts, evidence etc etc) and now the assorted tools, reactionaries and soulless party hacks who make up the Culture, Media and Sport committee in the UK Parliament have decided that the [...]

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I’ve given it a day and Cuil the soi-dissant Anti-Google still sucks. From the choice of black as the background color (”See? we are the anti-google! Black! To their white!!!” ) through to the inescapable fact that it doesn’t really work, it sucks. All day, everytime I needed to google something, I forced my [...]

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