2 posts tagged “blogging”
I am trying out a new thing for me (although it's not new on the web), I am "claiming" ownership of my various blogs on Technorati. Here is my Technorati Profile. I decided to do this after I discovered some idiot had cut and paste a section from one of my other blogger entries and tagged it as "annoying person" or some such on Technorati. Since it was a comment on another site I used to participate in, I have some ideas about who might be lame enough to do such a thing... but I digress. I noticed that my blogs had "no authority" since I had never created a Technorati account, so I decided to claim them and give them a tiny boost. I think I am ranked in the 1 millions for popularity with this blog and in the 3 millions for the other. Woo! I have arrived. :-)
The only thing that comes to mind is EFFING GENIUS. I just wish I had been in on the secret before the writer was unmasked as Daniel Lyons, a 46-year-old senior editor with Forbes magazine, because now the lawyers are gonna be all up in his grill and take all the fun away.
He was unmasked in Sunday's New York Times and he was man enough to admit it was him in a post on his blog called, "Damn I am so busted, yo." Apparently his site, which averaged 31,000 page views on a normal day, had over 476,000 by Sunday evening. His response was something like, "Oh my freaking God."
Here's a link to Sunday's article (registration required): Fake Steve Comes Clean. Nov. 30, 2006
You cannot believe the crap we are going through to make this Beatles
licensing deal work out. ... We're having a few issues with Paul, or Sir Paul,
as we have to call him. Friggin Ringo is good to go; he'd sell his toenail
clippings on eBay if it would make him a buck. The real hassle of course is
Yoko. ... I've been back and forth to New York ... about a thousand times
already. And things are not going well. Case in point: We're drinking green tea
on the floor of her living room and she's insisting that when we put the music
up on iTunes that the band must be called "John Lennon and the Beatles" and she
must be listed as a member of the group. Her big tactic is just to repeat
things over and over in this monotone voice, to wear you down...
Dec. 12, 2006
You have to understand how we do things at Apple. We think different. So,
por ejemplo, as they say in the Netherlands, we don't start with the phone, or
the software. We start with the ads. We'll spend months doing storyboards,
writing slogans, making fake billboards that we put up in one of our windowless
warehouses. I realize this is the reverse of how most companies do it. Just
about everybody else starts with the product. ... Not here. At Apple,
advertising is a pre-thought. And if we can't come up with a good ad, you know
what? We probably won't do the product. It's why we're different.
May 11
Some 17-year-old high school kid in Okemos, Mich., has done a study that
suggests iPods can interfere with your pacemaker and, I guess, cause you to
have a heart attack. ... Fact is we've known about this for quite some time.
And we're happy about it. We even cranked up the voltage on our new models.
Thing is, we really don't want old people using iPods. Ruins the image. Every
time I see some elderly person wearing an iPod and power-walking at the mall I
just want to scream. If we could find a way to make iPods interfere with fat
people we'd do that too.
July 31
IPhone is getting way too popular. The wrong kind of people are buying
them. ... We figured we could keep things under control using our usual
overpricing strategy. Who in their right mind was going to shell out 600 bucks
for a friggin phone, right? Especially if it lacks all sorts of features that
people really want. Just to be doubly sure we put it on the AT&T network and
gave it an unbearably slow wireless connection so that Web browsing is
practically impossible.
Wednesday
Frigtards at AT&T stores won't sell iPhones. ... They're pissed because
they don't get as big a commission as they do on other phones. And because they
have to compete with Apple stores selling iPhones too. ... This is one huge
reason why we stayed out of the phone business for as long as we did. I can't
stand the kind of morons who work in the typical cell phone store. It's like
they give people an IQ test and an EQ test and those who fail move on to the
next round; then they sift out anyone who's polite or helpful or doesn't have a
criminal record or a serious drug problem; whoever's left gets the job.
Sunday
(I)f anyone can think of a cool way to use the name "Brad Stone" (all or
part) as a verb, let me know.
Maybe this:
brad, v.i.:
1. To bust a fellow filthy hack without mercy and spoil the fun for
everyone, in a quest for personal aggrandizement.
2. To urinate in a pool.
And an article in today's SFGate with even more details: Steve Jobs he's not, but funny he is on the Net.
Excerpts from "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs"
