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Re: I had a client send me an email asking if I could...

grobertson — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:26:20 -0000

"Think of your favorite t-shirt with a logo on it. Now, think about someone twice your size putting your t-shirt on. What happens to the logo?"

Re: Sunil Tripathi Had Nothing to Do With It: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Avalanche

grobertson — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:46:31 -0000

No, it started with a series of tweets from one of his high-school classmates, @kmattio, who has since protected her twitter feed. Screenshot attached. http://imgur.com/UfUOQY9

Re: Atlantic Canadian Founders Deserve Better Than FAN (First Angel Network)

grobertson — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:33:36 -0000

The Maritimes have amazing people, great schools, excellent bandwidth and *so* much potential -- until you realize that something like 10 families own and run nearly *everything* and control most of the investment capital. I lived in Halifax as a transplant from the U.S. for two years. As much as I loved the city, the vibe and the astonishingly high ratio of young, educated, creative, and talented people, it became very clear that unless you were blessed at birth with a last name that could prove lineage dating back to the war of 1812, your ability to climb financially and socially is severely limited.

Re: Programmer-Journalist? Hacker-Journalist? Our Identity Crisis

grobertson — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:55:15 -0000

I'm not sure the perception problem of the term "hacker" is too great to overcome. Editor-Hacker or Hacker-Journalist is a somewhat apt description, and should stand as such. "Medical Correspondent" likely sounded cumbersome the first time someone spat it out but, it doesn't seem to have harmed Sanjay Gupta.

Disclaimer; My current title is Senior Editor-Hacker at the Daily Dot.. take that as you will :)

Re: http://joshdilworth.com/post/2452415030

grobertson — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:16:17 -0000

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours." - H.S.T.

Re: At My Wit’s End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us

grobertson — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:27:05 -0000

Provigil's utility in bipolar patients is limited to use as an adjunct for depression, when the depression involves significant lethargy. But hey, make stuff up all you want.

Re: Where in the World Is Eduardo Saverin? In Singapore Funding Facebook Games.

grobertson — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:19:13 -0000

That you're unsure of whether there are "hundreds/thousands" of other countries kinda blows your argument, don'tcha think?

Le sigh.

Re: Tweeting While Driving Cited in Celebrity Surgeon Death

grobertson — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:38:39 -0000

Somewhere, Darwin is laughing.

Re: BlackBerry Torch: Hands-on with “The Best BlackBerry Ever” [VIDEO]

grobertson — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:01:56 -0000

I am one ridiculously lucky nerd. That's for sure.

Re: HP CEO’s Alleged Sexual Harassment Victim Speaks Up

grobertson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:26:52 -0000

Hurd wasn't ever "sued". Stop making stuff up.

Re: Lindsay Lohan Sues E-Trade Claiming Baby Ad Is a Parody of Her [VIDEO]

grobertson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:47:32 -0000

It's official, Lindsay Lohan's attorney is even more stoned than Lohan herself. There are about a million precedents standing between her and a 100 million dollar payday.

Thank god Grub is now the standard boot loader for Linux. Lilo could have been in big trouble.

Re: Google Buzz Gets Some Serious Privacy Tweaks

grobertson — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:12:56 -0000

One word, "Beacon". Facebook has done this before. Twitter just doesn't make an accurate analogue.

Re: Does Facebook’s Doppelganger Week Violate TOS?

grobertson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:37:01 -0000

Am I the only one here who reads this and hears, "OMG, teh interwebs are full of stolen pictures of famous people!"?

The logic in this post is so ill defined. But hey, why dig deeper and point out the same or similar clauses for Twitter, AIM or nearly any other TOS on any user-driven site or app?

You missed a nice opportunity to correct Cnet (if not in fact, at least in concept) and do what good bloggers do, add value.

Re: 2010: Living In the Future | the book

grobertson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:32:14 -0000

The airplanes of this Utopian future may fly 4000 miles an hour and seat 30 passengers but, I'll bet they only have room for the carry on bags of 15.

Re: 2010: Living In the Future | the book

grobertson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:19:09 -0000

Do androids dream of erotic sheep-women?

Re: 2010: Living In the Future | the book

grobertson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:05:09 -0000

And the stove responds with a lesson on how not to shout for your food, kindly but firmly reminding you to turn off caps lock.

Re: 2010: Living In the Future | the book

grobertson — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:01:13 -0000

Golf courses? McMansions? Silly child! There is simply no room in the future!

Re: AOL Layoffs Begin: 1,400 Jobs to Be Slashed

grobertson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:38:37 -0000

Yes, because we all know the skills required to diagnose Gramma's dial-up problem in Ottumwa, Iowa are directly transferable to designing profitable web products. That lousy paycheck is exactly what's been holding those people back over the years.

Logic, she escapes me.

Re: Buzzkill: The Nexus One Was Never About a Phone

grobertson — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:00:11 -0000

Can't you feel the love in that comment?

As Christina's fiancee, I would just like to say that I loved the phrase "Resident Apple hipster iPhone skank" so much, I ordered her a t-shirt. Now, every time she wears it, we'll be laughing at your unrequited love.

+1 Awesometroll

Re: End of an Era: GeoCities to Close This Month

grobertson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:37:26 -0000

Hey Twitter, are you so sure about that 1 billion dollar valuation? I had totally forgotten Yahoo paid such a dear price. Of course, at that time, Yahoo's stock was also exorbitantly priced, so I guess it comes out in the wash. I'm reminded of what Douglas Adams wrote:

"This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

Re: Trying to build a Twitter search? Tweethook will do it for you

grobertson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:33:40 -0000

No, the above doesn't sound like an Astroturf comment at all. Why do you ask?

Re: @Drew - It's what's for Auction.

grobertson — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:58:17 -0000

This is freaking awesome @drew. I've typed another sentence several times; There are not words - and I'm not ever one short of words.

Re: Women Rule the Social Web

grobertson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:41:39 -0000

I actually think that the coolest bit of data in these data are that DeviantArt and LinkedIn make 50/50. That's rad, although I think the population distribution in the first world is more like 48/52 with women holding the majority.

What's up with Bebo being so far off? If these stats are accurate, AOL really needs to look at what's going on there. That's a huge spike in a sea of other sites which are overall balanced at or near the gender spread of the population.

Re: Women Rule the Social Web

grobertson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:36:32 -0000

I think this is a completely invalid hypothesis, and actually quite condescending. You're whole comment is akin to patting dedicated moms and even women entrepreneurs on the head and saying, "That's nice dear. Now run along, the men are busy running the world."

Re: Women Rule the Social Web

grobertson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:32:13 -0000

Not to be dense but, why? It's certainly casual and familiar, but I don't get why it's demeaning. "Chicks" doesn't really have a negative connotation.

Heck, we've referred to my niece (now in College.. yikes!) as "Chick" as a term of endearment since she was 7 or 8. I seriously (and I mean this non-sarcastically) hope we haven't been secretly diminishing her since childhood.