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| Friday, August 17, 2001 |
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Creepy search requests 
| | Proof that Lizzie Grubman matters even less than we thought. |
May I have the coffin please? Thank you. The Nosferatu Award goes to...
| | Although the subject is old as disco, it's still fun to go around on it. That's what's happening at the Silicon Valley Roundtable (thanks to Dan for the link). |
| | The press only knows three stories, Apple is dead, Microsoft is evil, and Java is the future. And they only ask two questions -- Is Apple still dead? Is Microsoft still evil? |
| | And a hundred years from now, they're still going to be asking the same questions. |
Full of what?
| | According to this story on CNET, AOL's new Global Marketing Group will sell you "full media" advertising, so you can blast your messages out through any combination of the company's now countless print, media, online and cable "brands," "channels" and soforth, |
| | There isn't a single thing in that story that makes me want to be feed at any one of those troughs. |
| | Meanwhile the company is going to lay off folks from its online division. That would be the division that gave the company enough value to buy Time Warner, no? |
| | Some day AOL's aphid-farming business model will get around to failing. No matter how big AOL gets, it won't get too big to tune out. (Any gruntles from the rank & file at the acquired media, I wonder?) |
| | By the way, have you noticed what's happened with Earthlink? They've rediscovered their suffix. Once again they are Earthlink.net. Gone is the home page of a company that's trying to be another AOL: a portal for everybody and useful to nobody. Now it's all about getting on and around "the real Net." Nice positioning there. |
Nada yada
Keep it up
| | We're one blog out of first place among sources of referrals to Sexblogs. |
Lances away
| | Paul Boutin reports that Wired is already picking up writers from the late Industry Standard. |
Been there, lost that
One more reason to just stay in bed
| | I worked at home yesterday so I would be around when the Verizon phone guys came to put in more lines. They narrowed down their arrival time to "somewhere between nine and five," which always tranlates to "five," unless they're early, in which case it becomes "four." |
| | Which is when they showed up. Then they took 45 minutes to figure out that they couldn't do anything because the power line from Southern California Edison was too close to the phone lines and also draped through a tree. So I had to call Edison. |
| | I sat on hold for about half an hour with Edison, at the end of which they said I had to cut the tree myself, since the tree was on my property and not located between two poles. |
| | Then I called four tree guys before I could get one to answer the phone. He'll be here tomorrow (woops, today) "sometime between nine and five." |
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