January 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk I’m bored, and the non-stop torrent of Apple Unicorn rumor-mongering interests me not one bit; so I think I take some time to point out yet another example of Dave Winer’s ongoing campaign to prove that he knows fuck-all about technology. I’ve written about this before, but this example was too good to pass up. In an article titled Twitter is SMS 2.0 Dave puts forth the thesis that Twitter is to SMS as blogging is to the web. Hilariously, that analogy is absolutely correct, but not in the way that Dave thinks it is. Dave is proposing that Twitter is an evolution of or replacement to SMS in the same way that blogging is an evolution of or replacement to the web. To quote the curmudgeon: There was the web and then there was Web 2.0. The difference is dimension. The first version of the web, though it was never the intention of the designer, was one-way. Publishing was hard, very few people did it. Lots of reading, not much writing. Blogging changed all that, writing got very easy, then richer, to the point where lots of professional publications now use blogging software. Mission accomplished.
Continue reading Winer Swings and Misses…Again
January 22nd, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
January 20th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk 
A while back I added a Paypal donation button over in the sidebar; mainly because “why the hell not.” I didn’t mention it because I’m not about to go on a begging spree. I do this thing mainly for my own enjoyment, that anyone else finds my babbling entertaining is a constant shock to me. At any rate, today someone (who I will refrain from naming to protect the innocent) slipped me a few shekels. So, nameless benefactor, thanks for that. Note, this is not an attempt to solicit more moolah. No one reading this should feel under any obligation to provide me with hooch money. Now, that said, clicking the Google adds…could it kill you?. Better yet, click the Oxfam add and donate to help the Haiti Relief Fund.
January 20th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk It’s extremely disturbing when I read something insightful on TechCrunch. Imagine taking anger-management advice from Mirror Universe James Kirk, or etiquette training from Tara Reid; something about it just seems off. So you can imagine the discombobulation I felt today when I read Anticipating the Apple Tablet: When journalism becomes fanfiction by Paul Carr. Paul makes a point that will be familiar to readers here and to listeners of the Angry Mac Bastards podcast. The short version is, “until Apple actually announces something, shut the living-fuck up about the Apple tablet.” Paul truly nails it with these two paragraphs: But until the official launch announcement comes, I would rather not hear another word about Apple and their tablet. Not because it isn’t news – but because so many of the journalists anticipating the launch have dropped any sense of responsibility to their readers and replaced it with cloying fanboyism. They claim of course that they’re digging for facts – the name of the new product, its price point, its specs – because that’s what reporters do. Bullshit. What reporters do is find out things that people don’t want us to know. In seven days’ time Apple
Continue reading Enough With the Fucking Tablet
January 19th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk I really do. It’s almost a certainty that at least once a week he will grind out a blog post that amuses me. The latest case in point is this one. In the post, Dave explains that he wants some “no-frills” hosting and gives a laundry list of the features that he requires. The funny part is that the way that he presents the list is exactly like a cranky old man trying to buy any reasonably modern product. “I don’t want a television with that new-fangled ‘High Definition,’ my old set worked just fine.” In other spots he just comes across as needlessly pissy. Seriously: Don’t hype me. All the services I see advertised on the web are long on hype and closing the deal, but I usually can’t tell what they’re offering. Ridiculous. Yes Dave, we’ll be sure to find you a provider who does no marketing. But the real fun starts in the comments. Of course, a slew of nimrods show up offering solutions that don’t exactly match Dave’s lofty criteria. So, Dave being Dave, he gets all cranky and starts waxing Scoble-like about the good old days: This isn’t personal because I
Continue reading I Love Dave Winer
January 19th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
If it seems quiet around here, that’s because I can’t find the motivation to fight against the flood of asinine iTablet unicorn speculation. When the tech media regains its senses, then I’ll start abusing it again.
January 18th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk O frabjous day! We finally have confirmation that Apple will, in fact, announce something on January 27th. Indeed, callooh! Indeed, callay! What we know: Not a mother-fucking thing. What I predict: I predict that an ungodly amount of ink and pixels will be spilled in the next nine days while the tech-obessed media attempt to glean some meaning from the artwork of the invitation. Ninety percent of which will be wrong. Also, Rob Enderle will be a douche. What will be revealed: That the person responsible for said artwork was, in fact, an eight-year-old girl.
January 15th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
Could this be the return of Crazy Apple Rumors?
January 13th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk
…courtesy of Scoble. Short version: I’ve been to China twice in my lifetime. Now let me spend 1150 words pontificating about how business is done there. Oh, and my commenters are sycophantic dipshits.
January 12th, 2010, by The Angry Drunk Ok kids, I hate to interrupt the mutual masturbation of the blogoratti regarding Google’s announcement that they might, maybe stop assisting the Chinese government in their censorship activities after purportedly being targeted by Chinese hackers attempting to access information about dissidents. Really, it kills me having to be a downer on all of this felating of Google, but when TechCrunch of all places gets it right…well, that’s just sad. Naturally, Scoble disagrees.
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If it seems quiet around here, that’s because I can’t find the motivation to fight against the flood of asinine iTablet unicorn speculation. When the tech media regains its senses, then I’ll start abusing it again.