Archives for 2000

Shall I

October 11, 2000 by Michael Boyle

drink the koolaid at bloghop or not? Hmmm.

the version of the story on the Biz2 website is different than the version described by Cavanaugh in the link below – his name is no longer on the piece and the picture of Jesse Jackson is a “non-improved” version. This suggests either that they were more easily able to accede to Cavanaugh’s requests in this version (mild props to Biz2.0) or (to me, more likely) they want to blunt any impact of the screed he wrote about his experience by bowdlerizing their online version.

I don’t normally

October 10, 2000 by Michael Boyle

resort to foul language in this space (I reserve that for verbal exchanges), Tim Cavanaugh’s account of a recent experience with Business 2.0 is totally fucked. Sadly, I can’t say I’m really surprised.

It’s a positive

October 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

idea, I think, to have candidates’ views appear in articles published in various media, and Ralph Nader makes some interesting points in a Wired News article on telecom policy. At the same time though it demonstrates one of Nader’s key problems (and it has been a problem for him for 30 years). He can’t see the forest for the trees. He gets so bogged down in minutia that he neglects to mention the key point – that the Clinton/Gore administration has a lot to answer for regarding the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.

Just back from

October 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Thanksgiving back at the homestead in Ottawa. I ate far too much turkey and stuff – as one would expect – and had a fantastic time. It’s weird when holidays here are on different days than in the US – cause on a day like today (cold and cloudy) I’d love to kick back and watch a movie on TV or something – but all that’s there (mostly) are the regular soaps and stuff. Maybe go shopping instead.