One of my favorite bloggers just got hired to write a twice weekly advice column for The Daily. While I’m happy for her success, she is the epitome of why The Daily will fail. The blog is called CokeTalk. It’s an advice blog run anonymously by a female version of Lenny Bruce. If that’s too [...]
Entries Tagged as 'fail'
More Fail for Blio – accessibility for the visually impaired
September 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · software reviews
Blio was launched yesterday, and I of course wrote a review. One detail I skipped in the review was the lack of promised support for the disabled. I don’t have the background knowledge to cover it adequately, and I was hoping to find a blog somewhere on the web discussing the lack. Well, one commenter [...]
Blio Reader launched today – Fail, Fail, and more Fail
September 28th, 2010 · 15 Comments · software reviews
The Blio reading app was finally available for download today, and I got it as soon as I could. I was really looking forward to this; the demos were impressive. The faux 3D mode looked interesting, the TTS sounded good, and there were hints that even better features would be coming. Given how wonderfulness of [...]
Borders FAIL – Area-e launched this week
September 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
I read over on Mike Cane’s blog that his local Borders had their Area-e setup, so I took a break from my errands today and stopped by the nearest Borders. There was so much FAIL that don’t know where to begin.
I think Murdoch’s tablet newspaper will fail
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Peter Kafka has the scoop over at AllThingsDigital. He’s reporting that Greg Clayman, formerly of Viacom, is going to head NewsCorp’s new tablet news unit (or whatever they end up calling it). I’ve pretty much assumed that this would happen, and I’m pretty sure it will also fail. But I never really explained why. It [...]
NewsCorp to launch tablet focused news organization – FAIL
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
Financial Times are reporting: News Corp is nearing a decision on whether to start a news organisation to provide content for a subscription application on digital tablet devices such as Apple’s iPad, according to people close to the plans. … If News Corp gives the green light to the tablet-centric news organisation plans, it will [...]
Borders are doomed, II
July 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
by anonymous Editor’s note: This was submitted by a former employee of Borders who would prefer to remain anonymous. I was an operations manager for Borders, and I am not at all surprised by the last post. The biggest problem is that the borders website and the borders store are separate entities. It wasn’t until [...]
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