Paul Carr
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NSFW: 404 Alcohol Not Found (Or, Social Media is Overrated, but it’s Helped me Stay Sober)
Earlier today, my friend Oli emailed me to say he’d noticed that one of my sites was showing a 404 message.
In a little over 24 hours, the sun will rise on the second TechCrunch Disrupt conference, brilliantly titled “ TechCrunch Disrupt: San Francisco “.
NSFW: TechCrunch Disrupt: The Drinking Game
NSFW: Sorry Deathhackers; Life Is Short, And So It Should Be
You know what’s getting old? The debate about ageing.Get out of the way, old man! You’re being Disrupted! Screw you, newspapers: blogs are stealing your readers and Craigslist is pillaging your revenue!
NSFW: Sorry AirBnB Hipsters, I’ll Take Health and Safety Over the Cult of Disruption
NSFW: Never Mind The Bollocks – Why Carol Bartz Can’t Say What Y
It’s Sunday afternoon in San Francisco, and while my American friends are out in the sun, celebrating some holiday or other – is this one Memorial Day or Labor Day or Arbor Day? – I’m confined to my hotel room, finishing the final edits of my book manuscript.NSFW: Weezer, plane crashes and everything else that’s worrying
A little before 9pm on Wednesday night and I’m standing on the ‘VIP’ balcony of San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom, holding a can of something called ‘MySpace Buzz’ and waiting for Weezer to take to the stage. It’s a weird scene, all told, and not just because I thought Weezer was dead. The bulk of the weirdness stems from the make-up of the crowd: a dozen feet below me in the main auditorium there are maybe a couple of thousand writhing teenagers – Weezer fans to a (wo)man, cheering and shouting and jumping and sweating and doing all the things I remember doing a little over a decade ago.
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalis
I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick.
Je vois que je ne suis pas le seul à apprécier cet auteur :-) by Dec 1
NSFW: Give me ad-free conversations, or give me death (please RT
Yesterday I spent the day at TechCrunch’s ‘Real Time Crunch-up’. This despite having no idea what a ‘Crunch-up’ actually is. The important thing is that Erick had asked me to help moderate his panel about marketing within ‘real-time streams’ , which is a subject close to my heart.Thanksgiving: a displaced Brit writes…
When I first heard about this “Thanksgiving” thing, I thought it sounded like a great idea.
One of the most tiresome group of people you encounter when you write a weekly column is the “suggesters”. Throughout the week, my inbox receives a steady flow of emails; from friends, from colleagues, but mostly from total strangers – all containing useful links to stories they “assume I’ve seen”.
NSFW: 1200 words absolutely, definitely not about Rupert Murdoch
NSFW: Cherchez la fame – or why the media’s obsession with Twitt
Time was, companies knew how to keep track of their important customers. First, they set up loyalty programs: computerised systems that tracked the monetary value of everyone who shopped in their stores or flew on their planes or ate at their restaurant.For one reason or another, I’ve spent the past few weeks down at the TechCrunch offices. As a result, it’s proved almost impossible to avoid iPad fanboy hysteria. Mike has already said that the device “beats even my most optimistic expectations”, Jason was one of the first in line at the San Francisco launch and even Sarah – who until now didn’t have an iPhone – has succumbed to its charms as a work/play device for long-haul travellers.
My favorite writer on Techcrunch by PED May 31