Bailout Bonanza

Here is a stream of my tweets on the possible economic bailout.

• Bailout = No Bankers left behind. Stop Loss = Soldiers left behind in war zone.
• Strong economy, it is a bull market. Weak economy, a bear market. Economy collapses, a bear will maul you while a bull gores you..
• bull market ^ bull shit = collapse + bailout = taxes * people + prices hikes * products = bankers @ vacation homes.
• I am short on liquid assets, I want the fed to bail me out too.
• An idea that makes money, even if it doesn’t make any sense, will be considered a great idea. An idea is only dumb when it loses money.
• The government will not bail out the people, they will only bail out the system.
• If I fail, maybe my family will bail me out. If the bankers fail, with billions of investors money, then the government bails them out.

Scobleizing Randumb Tweets

On this month’s issue of Fast Company, Robert Scoble’s business article was a stream, or better yet, a dribble of blabbering twitter messages. And the Scobleizer bunny gets paid for this. Since twitter does not achieve and make available all your tweets I thought I do a scoble and blog my tweets for posterity. In this post I repost some off the wall and totally random tweets.

• Buy one, get one free. It’s the buy shit no one else wanted sale!
• A marketing slogan will not save the world.
• It doesn’t matter anymore if you eat organic food, we all inhale the same bio-fuel produced air.
• The air quality is so bad in the bay area that you have to chew the air before you can breath it in.
• GoDaddy is more a dead beat dad.
• At the apex of the vortex welcome to the matrix as the cortex is conjecturing about sex.
• I understand a newly immigrated Chinese speaking English better than a born and raised Brit speaking English.
• Getting ready for the impending zombie attack.
• Some people have a hat rack, I have a laptop rack.
• The only reason I subscribe to magazines is to rip them up for scrap paper for piñatas.
• To think outside the box, first you need a box.
• Is the hiring process like speed dating? You quickly get to know the candidate, but just want to know if candidate can perform.
• It drives me nuts that my girlfriend does not know the difference between star wars, star trek and stargate!
• If you are one in a million, in a world with six billion people, there are six thousand of you out there.
• The good thing about taboos is breaking them.
• Eating lamb, who new such a cute animal would taste sooo good.
• Watching a horror flick and paying bills, not sure which is scarier.

I frequently tweet and update my social status. If you like to follow m or befriend me, feel free to hit me up on twitter, identi.ca, Pownce, and/or FriendFeed.

Technorati Tags: twitter, scoble, scobleizer, scobleizing, random, randumb, zombie, marketing

Scobleizing Question Tweets

On this month’s issue of Fast Company, Robert Scoble’s business article was a stream, or better yet, a dribble of blabbering twitter messages. And the Scobleizer bunny gets paid for this. Since twitter does not archieve and make available all your tweets I thought I do a scoble and blog my tweets for posterity. In this post I repost some questions first posed on twitter.

• Which came first, the chicken or the chicken nugget?
• What was the best thing before sliced bread?
• Which is better, to jump the shark or to jump the fail whale?
• Is marketing art, science, or illusion?
• Is RAM the new disk? Is R&B the new disco?
• Why is the perfect storm most often a shit storm?
• Is the hiring process like speed dating?
• Are you a player, playa, or playr?
• Are you down with HTTP? Yeah, you know me!
• Do chickens get breast implants? Cause this chicken tastes fake.

I frequently tweet and update my social status. If you like to follow m or befriend me, feel free to hit me up on twitter, identi.ca, Pownce, and/or FriendFeed.

Technorati Tags: twitter, scoble, scobleizer, scobleizing

What is Web 2.0?

Are you unsure what Web 2.0 means? Does Web 2.0 mean blogs, or wikis, or social networks, or flicker, or myspace, or just some site with fancy JavaScript effects? Here is a great video that explains Web 2.0 in a 5 minutes. The Machine is Us/ing Us.

The video above is a video response to another more documentary-minded video on Web 2.0. Here is the more verbose definition and history of Web 2.0.

Of course, this blog post with embedded YouTube video is very Web 2.0, don’t you know!

Technorati Tags: web2.0, wiki, blog, myspace, youtube, video, history, javascript

Shut Down SexTube

A lot of news sites and blogs are buzzing about a recent court decision against Google’s YouTube. This is an interesting case because the court was in Brazil and it has ordered that YouTube be “shut down” until the hot and steamy sex tape of Daniela Cicarelli is removed. Daniela is a Brazilian MTV vj, model and ex-wife of soccer great Ronaldo. From Daniella’s wikipedia entry…

The video was banned from YouTube. However despite YouTube’s efforts to withdraw the clip it continues to appear on the site. A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to find a way to permanently block the video from being uploaded on its servers.

The video of course has been copied and posted on sites other than YouTube. Now the attention from the court decision put on the spotlight on the video of Daniella’s sexy beach escapades.

The video is not as graphic as other celebrity sex tapes like Pamela Anderson’s infamous sex tape with then husband Tommy Lee, or Tammy the student at NYP in Singapore. The video shows Daniela with boyfriend Renato ‘Tato’ Melzoni in a public beach in Spain touching and foundling. The couple then goes into the ocean and where they proceed to make love.

From the above facts, I just can’t see how a Brazilian court can make such a judgment against Google or YouTube but you should make up your own conclusions. Read more about the story here, here, here. See the video here and even in Google Video here.

The funny thing is that no one is complaining about Saddam’s execution tape from being shown!

Technorati Tags: youtube, google, brazil, spain, daniala cicarelli, sex video, pamela anderson, tammy nyp, saddam

The Report On Colbert

By now everyone has seen the video of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. If you aren’t everyone and still haven’t seen it then check it out, it is funnier than his show even though he had a tough crowd. During his speech, Colbert touched on international issues. In regards to China’s global market he said:

I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out in plastic for three cents a unit.

Colbert indicated his support for the President:

I believe in this president. Now, I know there’s some polls out there saying this mans has a 32 approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in “reality” And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

So true, I never trusted reality’s secret agenda!

The President appointed Fox News anchor Tony Snow to be his new Press Secretary, this only accredits the fine job Fox News is doing. This is what Colbert said about Fox News:

Fox News gives you both sides of every story, the President’s side and the Vice President’s side.

Technorati Tags: stephen colbert, colbert, bush brigade, bush, fox news, correspondents dinner

How Opal Got Caught Plagiarizing

What do you get when you mix a college student in trouble, allegations of plagiarizing, and technorati? The biggest story to hit the blogsphere since Tammy NYP and A Million Little Pieces.

Kaavya Viswanathan, a 19 year old Harvard University student, has been accused of plagiarizing Megan McCafferty, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, and Salman Rushdie in her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.’ I believe that her original working title for the book was How Opal Mehta Got Her Groove Back.

In her book, How Opal Got Fucked as I like to call it, Kaavya tells a story of an Indian-American teenager that joins just about every school activity to be considered by Harvard but eventually learns that she needs to get wild to get in. Kaavya has been dropped by her publisher, Little, Brown and Company and her two book deal has been canceled.

Poor old Kaavya, got wild, got caught, and now needs to get a lawyer. By the way, there is not one single original thought here and in fact I plagiarized the everything including the technorati tags.

Technorati Tags: plagiarism, kaavya, viswanathan, content theft, copyright infringement

Your Job Doesn’t Belong To You

I recently read an article on The Wall Street Journal about how some people that live and work around the Mumbai International Airport are afraid to lose their jobs if the airport is bought by private investors. When I read that I thought to myself that these Indian workers could learn a thing or two from the experience of American workers. The average American worker has survived massive layoffs, restructuring, reorganizations, off shoring and off sourcing and now recognized that an employee does not own the position in a company he or she holds; basically you job does not belong to you. Simple Marx theory while show that the only thing an employee owns is his or her labor, which is a commodity. An typical employee does not own the capital, the machinery, the products, and as we now see does not even own their own jobs.

Internet High

Is it just me or does the blogsphere remind you of high school? It seemed to me that around Christmas of 2005 there was a contest of Miss Blog where contenders like Dawn Yang and Daphne Teo battled it out on Technorati for the most popular search. It is all so reminiscent of popularity contests in high school. Dawn and Daphne are not longer the top searches but other net celebs have taken their place.

Stuff Magazine’s April 2006 cover girl is Tila Tequila, “with the world’s most popular MySpace page, Tila Tequila has taken over the internet.” Tila currently has 850,000 friends on MySpace while I only have one, Tom. Tila is a model, song writer, and singer that has found a launching pad in MySpace.

On an aside, MySpace was recently reported to generate more traffic than Google. Maybe it shows the fack that I am not kewl because I think that 99.9% of the pages up on MySpace are crap, including Tila’s top rated page. A typical MySpace page has all the bad design techniques of a 1998 web page; cheesy animated images, horrible background images and awful layout.

So you want to be an internet celebrity? Well, first and foremost you have to have a blog or MySpace page where you can post tons of pictures of you and your hot friends. Post pictures of you as you go about your business, in the bathroom, hanging out with friends, going out shopping while trying out skimpy clothes.