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Can’t. Stop. Watching.
August 10th, 2008 • Life, Strange, Technology
Must Get Me One Of These…
March 27th, 2008 • Life, Strange, Technology
How long is your digital shadow?
March 24th, 2008 • Internet, Strange
Just tried a fascinating test launched by EMC that attempts to quantify my ‘digital footprint’. You can download the test here (thanks to Read/Write Web for the pointer).
According to a recent EMC-sponsored white paper (The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe), we’re leaving a vapor trail of 1s and 0s behind us every day, either in the form of stuff we volunteer (uploaded pictures, videos, emails etc), or - perhaps more interestingly - stuff that we’re not so aware of (telephone records, records of web searches, flight tickets etc).
I ran the test before writing this. My daily footprint is a little over 6300MB. I can’t say I’m surprised: by any standards, I’m a heavy user of gadgets and the web. But the real shock came when I launched EMC’s ‘ticker’, which tries to put a figure on the total amount of hard drive space I’ve swallowed in my lifetime. If it’s anywhere near the truth, I’ve chomped through 524GB of storage, all of which is presumably out there… somewhere.
Which I guess is EMC’s point: I don’t think twice about signing up to offers from airlines and online stores, then happily forget about it. Why do I think I’m going to regret that some time soon?
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the white paper suggests that the human race ‘created and replicated 281 exabytes of data in 2007′ (before you start counting on your toes, an exabyte is one billion gigabytes).
And the fastest growing site on the web is…
September 20th, 2007 • Internet, Strange
THE OTHER DAY COMSCORE RELEASED numbers showing GodTube, a YouTube for Christians, to be the fastest-growing site on the Internet in August, when it grew 973%. While some might see this as yet another reason to Praise de Lawd, subverting the waving of the palm fronds is the fact that the site only launched on Aug. 8. Mystically, GodTube claims 500,000 unique visitors per month without yet collecting an entire month of traffic data (Thank yew Jee-susss!). Online Media Daily
Missile company buys social media network
August 16th, 2007 • Internet, Strange
The first line of the press release days it all:
‘Global Defense Strategic Logistics Inc, formerly GlobalDyne DefenseMatic, the eighth-largest defense contractor in the world, has acquired Redhedd.com, a social community for and about redheads, as part of a major overhaul of their marketing strategies and an effort to put a friendlier face on their AT-600 series of ballistic missiles, nicknamed “redheads” for their bright red warheads.’
Read it once. Now read it again. Shurely shome mishtake, you think. But no: a marketing department at a major defence supplier has convinced its management that buying a social site for redheads is a good idea.
But it gets better. GDSL isn’t planning to tamper with the site in any major way, but is planning to introduce the concept of ‘long- and short-range’ redheads into member profiles.
“GDSL felt that it was time to start thinking outside of the box on this one,” Says Rufus Sizemore, a Global Defense media liaison. “The redhead is one of the hottest selling ballistic missiles in the world, but no one outside of the defense community knows it by name. We want it to be a household name.”
Global Defense Strategic Logistics Acquires Redhead Social Network Redhedd.com
The worst TV presenter ever?
August 2nd, 2007 • Life, Strange, Television
Good Ideas At The Time, PtIII
August 1st, 2007 • Life, Strange
…oh, but the regrets the following day…
Ballmer does the iPod dance
July 30th, 2007 • Life, Strange, Technology
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Remember Steve Ballmer’s ‘Developers, developers, developers’ moment of madness from last year? Here’s the Apple remix…
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