VOTD: Diggnation #194
In the meantime, while we await my earth shattering news (I kid… it’s really rather boring) about this blog, here’s another ‘Video of the Day’ for you all to enjoy. This is the most recent episode of Diggnation, a live episode from Austin, Texas during SXSW. Official episode description can be found below the video:
* Blogs hosted on WordPress.com won’t allow you to embed video that’s not from YouTube without using a secondary website called vodpod. This is stupid. This also means that you can’t watch this in full screen mode using the player above, the fullscreen button doesn’t do anything. You can however use the full screen function of the player if you click on the link under the video. I encourage you to do this, as the video looks great in fullscreen mode, and is much more enjoyable to watch.
A Change for Clearly Unclear
I don’t have much time to go into details right now, but there’s going to be a few changes to the “mission statement” of Clearly Unclear. That’s a rather dorky way of saying that I’m just going to change the official direction that I want the blog to go, in other words I’m going to be editing the About Page (they haven’t been made yet).
It’s nothing drastic or mind-blowing, so don’t get all worried… who am I kidding, no one’s going to get too worried if this blog switches it up. So with that bit of self-deprecation aside, stay tuned, I’ll have something up explaining myself by the end of the week.
VOTD: Totally Rad Show #104
I’m going to try something new today, a video of the day segment. There won’t be a VOTD everyday, but I’ll probably post something 2-3 times a week. The inaugural VOTD is the two year anniversary show of The Totally Rad Show, check it out!!! If you want to know more about TRS or watch past episodes head on over to Revision3 or the TRS home page.
more about “Totally Rad Show #104“, posted with vodpod
Why Apple is Sometimes a Horrible Company…
I’m often accused by friends, family and total strangers of being an Apple fanboy. I own a large amount of Apple products (3 iPod’s, a MacBook, an Airport Express, and the iPhone) and can often be overheard trying to explain why these various products a great. Most of the time the accusations of fanboyism are made by people that just don’t like Apple, they have irrational and uneducated opinions about the company like some do about Microsoft. I think I could do a whole blog post about the silly Mac vs. Windows arguments I hear from both sides, and I might do that one day… but not today.
While I do love me some Apple products, Steve Jobs and the fine people in Cupertino, California can sometimes make some rather boneheaded decisions, in my personal opinion. The folks at Apple like the word synergy. That’s not usually a bad thing from a consumer’s point of view, because nothing is worse in the world of consumer electronics when different devices don’t work together. And of course, from a business point of view it couldn’t make any more sense, just like any other company, Apple wants to sell you and and all of their products. All that’s great, but when a company views synergy as a way to FORCE a consumer to buy a certain branded product, that’s where the problem begins. A problem that was perfectly illustrated when Apple recently announced it’s update to the iPod Shuffle. (more…)
