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A New 30 Day Challenge: Saying NO to Internet News

Day 6 of 30 of Writing Challenge I’ve decided to stop reading or consuming internet news for 30 days starting from today. For me this means no Hacker News, Digg (not that I read it that often), Reddit, Huffington Post, The Awesomer, and what the hell, I’ll throw random Youtube videos in there as well. [...]

Posted 25 October 2011 † ben § Challenges ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Why I’m Taking a Break from Facebook

Day 5 of 30 of Writing Challenge About a few weeks ago I made the choice to deactivate my Facebook account for 2 months. Half of it was on a whim, but the other half was out of curiosity. I wanted to see if I left Facebook if I’d miss it. Let me clarify and say [...]

Posted 24 October 2011 † ben § Challenges § Personal growth ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Techstars Reality Show: Tech Startups Simplified

Day 4 of 30 of Writing Challenge I finished watching the Techstars reality show by Bloomberg television. I have mixed feelings with the show. On the one hand I think it’s awesome that tech startups have their own medium to showcase what it’s like to build and launch a company. However, how the show turned out leaves [...]

Posted 23 October 2011 † ben § Challenges § Personal growth ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Future Checkin Makes Foursquare Future Pointless

I love it how Techcrunch sometimes misses the bigger picture story on the tech news they cover. Actually, scratch that, I don’t love it, I think it’s annoying.  But maybe that’s their strategy totally miss something so other people (like me) will write something in response to it.  Well it worked… Bookmark It Hide Sites

Posted 03 August 2010 † ben § Crazy § Stupidity ‡ Comments (0) °

iPad Not so iHot

I don’t consider myself an Apple “Fanboy,” but I do happen to like quite a few Apple Products.  For me it’s not about just being blindly loyal to a company for the sake of being loyal (ie Fanboy-ish), but really just choosing to purchase products that I think are better and do what I want [...]

Posted 05 March 2010 † ben § Stupidity ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

iPhone 3GS? No Thanks I Have iPhone 3GA

No one will argue the fact that the iPhone (in all its iterations) has been wildly successful.  It’s a cool, slick looking, and useful phone.  If it wasn’t for AT&T and their god awful data pricing plans, I might be tempted to buy one.   Until then I’m sticking with my trusty super smart phone Bookmark [...]

Posted 10 July 2009 † ben § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , , , ,

I Like Kanye West More…Because of Twitter…Or Because He Hates It

Apparently not all celebrities are the biggest fans of uber super popular awesome-o micro blogging platform, Twitter.  People like Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, etc… are using it to update “us” hungry fans about their great lives that we don’t have.  So imagine my pleasant surprise when I found out that Kanye West hates twitter…just like [...]

Posted 13 May 2009 † ben § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Broken Penis and Other Random Things People Search

So installed a plugin (firestats) on my blog that lets me track visitor statistics.  What’s cool about it is you can see what websites are referring you traffic, which posts are the most popular, what country they are from, etc…  However, the coolest part about these stats is tells you what people searched in google [...]

Posted 29 April 2009 † ben § Crazy ‡ Comments (0) °

All Time Top iPhone Paid Apps – April 2009

So the recent big hoopla has been the announcement of the impending 1 billionth download of an iPhone / iPod touch application.   That of course is a lot of downloads for a short time.  However in all this time Apple hasn’t been the most forthcoming with data regarding the popularity of these applications.  Sure you [...]

Posted 15 April 2009 † ben § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Who or What is Robert Scoble Pointing At?

So those in the tech nerd/geek world probably know who Robert Scoble is.  He’s a semi-famous blogger/vlogger who talks about technology and software stuff.  His most recent gig is hosting a show and an article through Fast Comapny Magazine called Scoble on Tech.  His blog is Scobleizer. Anyway, I’ve seen his picture around and if [...]

Posted 20 January 2009 † ben § Random Silliness ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,