DISQUS

What kind of help are you looking for? I don't have anything better to do on a Friday night and would love to help the cause.

Cheap, Strathmore stock, 60 pound, holds a crease. Can you tear it? Absolutely. Looks like crap, it is crap.

I've watched this 5 times so far... this is freakin hilarious!

Mathew, congratulations! The Globe has the perfect man for the job and it will be fun to see where things go from here.

Take II:

I love the Apple ads Matt, but I do think they're starting to lose their appeal. Everybody knows Vista was a mess to start with and like anything, a single topic can't be funny forever. If that were true, why would comedians bother writing new material?

As for Bill and Seinfeld, I may not fit in their target demographic, but it didn't strike me as a failure. I admit that Bill Gates is my personal hero, so I think I might be biased. Any chance to see him in action, whether it's a commercial, or an appearance at a local university, I can't get enough.

I don't know much of the campaign (I've seen both commercials), but if I had to guess, I would say the agency is hitting the mark their aiming for. The commercial doesn't offend, it's engaging and it makes you feel a little bit uneasy, with a slight twist of humour.

As usual, in today's day and age, people judge things on immediate payback. This commercial fails in its goal to relate to the masses and let people know that Microsoft is learning from its past. A commercial that does that could not be produced.

Microsoft will need to work hard at building products that people love and can rely on in addition to a lot more commercials like this to support its efforts.

Matt, I'm a huge fan of Loren and I hadn't seen the TechNigga video until today. I can see where Loren was trying to go with it, but he really, really, REALLY missed his mark. I also don't by the "social media experiment" bit either, but I digress.

Does it make him a horrible person? No, I don't think so. An err in judgment perhaps. What the Internet viewing public must understand is that history lives FOREVER on the Internet and just because the content exists and is still viewable by the public doesn't mean that we should judge the content creators each time it surfaces.

At some time or another, many of us have produced "unfortunate content". I use the term "content" loosely here. Imagine having half naked drunk cottage pics out there that your "friends" have uploaded, viewable by a prospective employer.

Maybe the Internet needs a statute of limitations...?

Hey thanks for the post Zoe! How could you forget the name - we even had an orange drink to match the colour of our logo!

Next time I see you I'm going to get a colourful permanent marker and draw The Little Geeks logo on your forehead. That way, after a long night of socializing, our name will be the first thing you see in your mirror the morning after.

Seriously though, thanks again for the props... much appreciated!

-Ben

Great post! I find myself wondering this SAME thing ALL THE TIME. Let's tackle this proble once and for all!

Right on.

Another, relatively simple idea would be to have a blocking system based on a social rating system. That way we could choose to block ALL apps that don't have at least 4/5 stars. Obviously it would need some tweaking (14 year olds might rate zombie app a 5) and we might choose ratings that have at least 4 stars from the 30+ demographic.

Haha! This was awesome. Did you see my blog post about CIBC? Flickr received a takedown notice for an image I uploaded of the CIBC logo I had changed. Thanks for the laugh!

People are speculating that Apple/Rogers will announce the iPhone during Steve Jobs' Macworld Keynote on the 15th of Jan'08 (this month). There's more than just the issue of the Rogers logo on the phone or the data plans... there's also the issue of the iPhone trademark. These rights are currently owned by Comwave, a national Canadian VoIP carrier.

I have the iPhone and I really like it... but it won't be worth much if Rogers doesn't step up and lower their data plans. See my blog link for more info.

You're right, that was boring. Still important, regardless. It seems pretty clear to me that Sony doesn't have a leg to stand on. So if Sony told Harry Fox to stop licensing content, what's next for them? What will the fallout be?

The same is true for watching movies on an airplane... in fact, I'd rather watch a movie on my iPod, than an airplane.

I have a 16GB iPod touch with a $299 pair of Shure 310 headphones. I agree with David Lynch - to a point. it's definitely hard to pick up the cinematic nuances of a movie on a small screen.

The fact of the matter is that too many movies are crap and not worthy of my time in front of the large screen LCD. If I watch a movie on my iPod and I enjoy it, I'll almost always watch it again on my LCD at home.