ENTRIES FROM JANUARY 2005
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2004: The Year in Movies
365 Days. 1 Great Movie. By Jeff Hughes I’m really tired of modern movie critics. When do they hold that meeting in some abandoned warehouse, when Roger Ebert stands in the shadows puffing a cigarette and A.O. Scott knocks on ...
January 5, 2005 |
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A9/OC Update (Updated)
Just a quick update on the mention of A9.com on the OC. Here's the actual quote from the scene according to Google Video: Lindsay: Uh, ...
January 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Apologies and Randomness
Sorry about the lack of entries over the last few days, don't really have any good excuses other than I've been working on overhauling the look of the site. The new look should be ready by the end of this week (I hope). Here's some lighthearted l ...
January 19, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Ask and Ye Shall Receive
Yesterday I whined that Fox's new Family Guy blog was hardly a blog at all. Without RSS or permalinks one hardly deserves the est ...
January 7, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Blockbuster Takes Aim at The Long Tail
We've all seen the obnoxious Blockbuster ads celebrating the end of late fees by now. Obviously this is all part of an elaborate plan by Blockbuster to contend with Netflix ...
January 10, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Civilized Cock Fights
I was reading AM New York today and ran across this article on the front page: Oklahoma state Sen. Frank Shurden, a longtime defender of cock-fighting, is suggesting that roosters ...
January 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Crunch Fitness: A Story of Terrible Customer Service
Prepare to be amazed by the shortsightedness of Crunch customer service. Yesterday I walked into Crunch at Kips Bay, gave them my card and was ...
January 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 66 COMMENTS
Fun with Safire and Networked Learning Theory
Lot's of interesting stuff to talk about today (an incredible amount of which was in the New York times -- check my del.icio.us links). Let me start off with William Safire' ...
January 24, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Gone FeedBurnin'
I've finally decided to make the move to FeedBurner (the new feed address is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Noahbriercom). I can't stand not knowing my RSS s ...
January 9, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Link from "The Long Tail"
I was just on Chris Anderson's new blog, The Long Tail and noticed an interesting link. On the left side Anderson has a section called "Long Tail comment elsewhere:" and as I was perusing throug ...
January 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
More Thoughts on PR vs. Blogs
Yesterday I got into a heated debate about the importance of incoming links and mentions when comparing bloggers (specifically Robert Scoble) to PR agencies. It was based on a <a href="http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/archives/2005/01/how_robert_sco ...
January 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
New Design
Well, here it is. So what do you think? Please be as praising or critical as you feel necessary, I want to make this site as easy as possible to use. If you don't feel comfortable leaving the comments in the comment section, feel free to <a href="mai ...
January 21, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Nothing to Say
I just feel like writing. I don't really have any idea where it will end up but I feel as though I've been cheating everyone who reads this site over the last week or so. It's amazing how much responsibility I feel to write here. It's not a bad respo ...
January 21, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
PR vs. Blogs
I've gotten myself into quite a debate over at Blog Business Summit. Steve Broback started out by comparing mentions of Robert Scoble across the web comp ...
January 11, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Pet Peeve: Blogless Blogs
Fox has started a blog for the return of Family Guy [link via Kottke Remaindered Links]. I would be in love with this idea if ...
January 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Problems with MT
Sorry for the lack of entries over the last few days, it's been due to a combination of things. First off, New Years meant that the rest of the weekend was basically a lost cause. I'm happy to report I had a good New Years Eve and a lazy Saturday as ...
January 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Search Engines and OC: My World's Collide
First, let me start off with a quote from a friend of mine after I told him I was writing this. Jeff: You realize you're saying that your worlds are search engines and The OC. Maybe in Geekland everyone lost their homes because your ...
January 28, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Some Friday Randomness
Alright, I don't really have anything coherent to say at the moment (do I ever?), so I'm just going to splice together a couple things I've been thinking about/meaning to write. 1. Does this bizarre weather have something to do with the Tsunami? ...
January 14, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Speculation Frenzy
Here's the story. There was this Google employee, Mark Jen, who was blogging about Google. He said some things that were on the less than favorable side about his employer. His site was discovered and linked ...
January 26, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Top 50 Albums of 2004
This is the moment everyone's been waiting for, the proof that I really have no life. These are my 10 favorite albums of 2004, in order (roughly), with five word descriptions (or less) and an MP3 (mostly legal and only when I could find a link). ( ...
January 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Trying to Answer: What is The Long Tail?
In his newest post, Chris Anderson tries to come up with a "pithy definition" for The Long Tail. Here are his attempts: A) The Long Tail is the infinite ...
January 7, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS