Category: Quote For The Day

Stop It With Your April Fools “Fun”

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Excuse me while I vent, but Aprils Fools Day just isn’t fun anymore. Every single company wants to do something “wacky and zany” today and starts launching products that are almost, but not quite, possible. With so many Web 2.0 ideas a touch silly, but given VC capital anyway, there’s little differentiation. So I quit. Nothing from me this morning. Move along. Stop wasting ideas, time, and people’s goodwill. Just stop it. I’ll be back after midday.

The Sunday Times is Pre-Revenue, Let’s Twitter That

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I think Kevin Marks nails the reply to The Sunday Times Twitter article rather nicely: Launched in 1821, The Sunday Times is the inescapable, old tech product. It boasts 1.2m readers — teeny compared to the BBC World Services’s 183m — but its audience has slumped in the past year. Right now, the Australia-based company that owns The Sunday Times is valued at $29billion, even though, in start-up argot, it is “pre-revenue”. Despite the big losses and the ennui swirling around his product, Murdoch (who also coined the term “Digger”) has admitted many are bewildered when they first encounter The

Montalban and McGoohan

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“We are gathered here today to pay final respects to our honoured dead. But it should be noted that this death takes place in the shadow of new life, the sunrise of a new world; a world that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friends, I can only say this… “ “You still have a choice. You can still salvage your right to be individuals. Your rights to truth and free thought!”