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 [...]
Dept. of Neologisms: Googahoo!
June 13th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 6 Comments
For the latest entry into the Department of Neologisms, I have decided to buck the trend - nay, the universal lockstep - of referring to the conjugation of Google and Yahoo! as ‘Yahoogle’. From now on, this blog (well, possibly only me) will speak only of Googahoo! There are many reasons behind this:
Is The New Atlantic Making Us Link to Sensationalist Articles?
June 11th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments
Well, is it?
They put ‘cool’ in inverted commas…
June 10th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
“Our goal is simple”, declare the boys over at truththroughaction.org, thereby raising the possibility that they are, too. But we carp needlessly, for their goal is a lofty one:
to engage young voters in an innovative and cost effective way, providing them with the sort of entertaining content that reminds them that being Democrat is “cool,” [...]
Barack Obama Social Media Round-Up
June 9th, 2008 by Dan O'Connor · 4 Comments
Now that Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold in the American political commentariat: it was social media wot won it for Barack. To wit, it was the Obama campaign’s superior leveraging of the tools and processes of social media communications which allowed him to overcome [...]