Doc Searls recently wrote that ‘cookies’ are essentially ‘worms’.
‘Cookies’. Warm, friendly, sweet - nice enough to eat!
Of course you can put a cookie on my machine, but NOT a worm.
Even though a cookie’s behavior is essentially worm like.
Filed under ‘Nefarious Language’.
ZoomInfo Duo Become Billionaires With Stock Doubling Since IPO.
We know why … right?
I am still very pissed off about this. … and still don’t know whether to call them on it.
Gaping Void - back in 2007 talking Cluetrain …
”Cluetrain is the most important book about the internet ever written. Why? Because it was the first book that talked about the internet the way it REALLY is, i.e. people talking, as opposed to the way business and the media pretend it is, i.e. people buying.”
Hugh McCleod
Quibi reportedly considers layoffs for 10% of staff after poor launch.
Interesting news … “Meg was paid.”
The rest pretty predictable.
Only thing left to know now is whether it ends with a bullet in the brain or a thousand paper cuts.
💬 Juan Cole
… just as we in turn are all dreaming of a regime change.
This country was built on unconscious racism. We have to consciously decide to take it into another direction.
💬 David Frier
(🔗 Source)
I don’t often disagree with Frier, but;
… the country was built on unconscious racism …
Really? Unconscious?
Being blind and ignoring it is not unconscious.
Must have missed Solis joining Salesforce full time ….
Digital transformation: Inventing the Future We Want
There’s either a back story or a lot of guaranteed income with complete freedom.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
The new normal - just as Wall Street hits more new highs … [the US officially enters the first recession since 2009 and The WHO announces that yesterday’s global COVID numbers are the worst ever.
Go Figure.
I can’t.
Satellite image updates sometimes seem to be years behind reality - so I have to think that Apple has accelerated this image into 🍎 🗺 … kudos.
Analyst thinks Apple should acquire DuckDuckGo.
Now that is the first ‘Apple should buy ….’ headline I’ve seen in a long time that doesn’t smack of idiocy.
iPhone 7 User Attempts to Sue Apple for $2 Trillion, Here’s Why
There is no 💊 for stupidity.
“programmers keep wanting to solve the same problems over and over.”
Dave Winer
Reminds me:
“The first 90 percent of code accounts for first 90 percent of development time. The remaining 10 percent of code accounts for the other 90 percent of development time.”
”A pandemic killing tens of thousands, a collapsing economy and police officers rioting in the streets. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans continue to mass-produce judges to enshrine minority rule in this country and establish a 21st-century apartheid state.”
John Stoehr
Seriously? THAT’S where you dropped the keys?
Dave Winer trying time be clever? Funny? Either way I’m guessing that he is probably unaware of Northern English vernacular;
”That Sean … he’s a right ….”