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Terry Howard Orlando, Florida |
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Attention Metrosexuals |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 6/23/2008 
This is still a foofy girly shower puff scrub... You are still a pansy... That is all... You may go back to drinking your appletinis now...
Colleges on University Blvd? WTF?!?! |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 2/19/2008
"They need to consider the impact on the community, especially an area that was never designed or intended to support a sprawling campus," said Anna Telleria, a resident who was against the school's expansion.
Oh, you mean that area along University Blvd that has neighborhoods called things like University Commons, University Place, etc... Seeing as how both schools, Full Sail and UCF, have been around since at least the 70's and those homes were mostly cow fields around that time... Yeah, an area that was never designed for growing campuses (or is it campi)... sure.
But maybe those residents are right, it would be far more ideal to have large employers with a customer base that also supports hundreds of local businesses leave the area. Then the University Blvd area could descend into a gang infested poverty stricken cess pool. That would be wonderful for your property values!
Hillary, The Problem is YOU! |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 2/10/2008
You make grand impossible promises like universal healthcare that you know isn't feasible. When the plan fails we know you'll just blame the people with the wisdom to block it, claiming you tried to give us free healthcare but the green meanies stopped you once again. It's just your little way to not have to live up to your campaign promises.
But the biggest problem is you don't inspire. Not one bit. You do nothing but complain about Bush (what's the point, he's gone) and go on angry grating tirades that make me dive for the remote. Obama on the other hand makes people want to listen. People make musical art out of his speeches. He uses words like hope and change and he sounds like he believes in it.
I'm not a liberal by any stretch, but I'm not a Republican either. Just a guy pointing out the obvious. Your campaign manager is fine Hillary, it's your candidate that sucks.
Pimping Your Ignorance |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 2/08/2008
I don't know if I agree with his opinion or not, but I do know that Shuster wasn't suggesting Chelsea was actually being used to exchange sex for votes. It's a figure of speech folks, and a pretty common one. Anyone who took issue with the statement merely on the basis of the phrase "pimping out" is a big fat idiot. Why don't you discuss the point he raises instead of incorrectly taking a figure of speech literally and then arguing against that.
Reporters Fail At Reporting |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 1/23/2008
Oh my god, sushi will poison us all with mercury!oh wait... no, Marian Burros just sucks at reporting.
Took me exactly 0.06 seconds to generate 97 Google News results for "tuna mercury" which contained both sides of the story and gave me a more complete and balanced understanding of the story. It probably took Burros the better half of the winter to piece together that lopsided alarmist falsehood-fiesta.
Welcome to the global network reporters, where we all learn just how hard you fail at reporting the news!
Man Up America! |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 1/20/2008
Waaaaaaah?!?!?! Hoooold on... When in sam hill did the Super Bowl, the end all be-all contest of skull cracking, QB sacking, TD celebrating American football, get a freaking "red carpet"? Who, I would like to know, let our pure celebration of raw sports adrenaline become associated with a fashion show parade of who-gives-a-rat's-ass-alebrities hosted be none other than Mr. Garbage Reality Contest Show TV himself? Who?!?!
We gotta draw the line man, this wussification of all that is holy to American culture must stop. First you crack down on endzone celebrations (I'm sorry, I thought this was a form of entertainment, and if you don't like it, don't get scored on!) and now this... a red carpet pregame hosted by Ryan Seacrest... Lame!
Labels: fantasy football, idiots
Razor Blade in Candy, OMG! |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 11/01/2007
Orlando Weekly: Grow Up |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 10/24/2007
Their response? This excuse for journalism. Here's the deal guys. You got caught knowingly taking money and placing ads supporting a blatant criminal activity. The response of a 2 year old is to say, "but other kids were doing it to" and begin to point fingers around the room. The next step of an immature child being confronted with wrongdoing is to start bawling and say, "you hate me, you're just being mean." Guess what guys. That whole article, yeah, it was like listening to a 2 year old caught doing something wrong and acting like 100% a big fricken baby. Grow up and take your punishment like a man.
And freedom of the press arguments? Uh, that's lame. Freedom of the press doesn't give you license to profit from criminal activities. It just doesn't. I've been plenty critical of police organizations for various issues. But you know what? If I was running ads for crack cocaine alongside those articles and the hammer comes down, well, I would deserve it.
Scoble, We Hardly Knew Ye |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 8/28/2007
Wow, now I haven't seen that level of reckless ignorance since, well, earlier today when Michael Vick said he thought his torturing dogs to death after laying wages on battles-to-the-death was childish. Yeah, that's the kind of stuff kids do in their care-free summer days Mike, adults usually grow out of that.
So back to Scoble, who has with this string of Al Queda style low budget video pod-craps ended any chance of hanging on to any long term relevancy that might earn him the right to be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in a made for TNT movie. Others have done a better job than I could of picking him apart statement by statement, so I'll just stick with a couple things that popped into my head while watching what of his videos I could stomach.
Scoble mentions that nobody uses any of Google's hundreds of services, which I found funny as I came across a mention of his videos through some blogs I read completely through Google Reader, which I access from my Google Homepage where I can also see my latest Google Mail. I'm pretty sure I'm not Google alone in that Google area. He also boldly claims that if you are looking at the video then you haven't gotten there via search as the ONLY way you can find that video is by someone first hand (you see, Scoble intentionally tried to un-seo his video page, that rascal!) Really? Google is not going to index the articles and blogs that mention your video and link to and derive the keyword relevancy from that? Have you not heard of the affects of Google bombing? What am I saying, you are the Mainstream Tech Media (MTM tm), why would you ever have a full comprehension about that of which you write?
So Scoble starts talking about his comparison of "HDTV" result pages from Google and Mahalo. First off, seriously Scoble? You are this supposed tech guru and you search like an 80 year old granny's first sitting at a computer? I'm pretty sure you throw at least one qualifying statement in there so I'm going to chalk that demonstration up to staged setup. So let's try something useful, like say looking for tips on how to shoot a video podcast that does not sound and look like you are making a ransom video. So pop say "video podcast audio tips" into Google and Mahalo. Google gives some noise, but some good results in there too. Mahalo gives you... er... Google results... and links to other pages on Mahalo they think might be related, such as Veronica Belmont (who is now in production on a daily podcast for Mahalo), How to Speak French, Twango (which has nothing to do with podcasts) and a general page about Podcasts where upon halfway down I find, ah, what I was looking for "Podcast Tips and Tricks". So with Google I got a page that was geared towards my words, a handful on the first page that were dead on what I wanted, and with Mahalo I got some irrelevant links, something that looks like blatant promotional linking (we call that SPAM), a link to ANOTHER page that does hold what I'm looking for, oh, and then Google results that does hold what I'm looking for. Actually Mahalo missed a perfect opportunity to unite me the searcher and my query with that click and some scrolls away relevant info, all the needed was some kind of system that could have systematically paired what I searched with content they know about. Some kind of, I don't know, algorithm. I guess I could always wait for a Mahalo editor to create the page and then they'll be happy to email me. Super!
The last thing I'll comment on will be Scoble's over the top swipes at SEO as an industry. What the hell dude? How uneducated can you be? Here's a quick primer: SEO helps sites with information relevant to a given query be found for the query. The keyword here is "relevant". If you are spending time doing things that are presenting your site as being relevant for a term OTHER than what your page/site has to offer, that's not spamming, that's stupid. You can call it spamming if you want, but I would just call it poor SEO that is going to drive in bad quality traffic that doesn't convert. So what's left is people helping people find the information they are looking for, which is pretty much what your bed buddy Mahalo claims to do. SEO just uses the existing vehicle of algorithmic search to accomplish that. You say SEO like it's a dirty word, but all SEO is is helping the poor schmoe's at your HDTV manufacturers with their unindexable flash monstrosities reach the customers who are searching for them. I suppose in your world we could just wait for Jason Calcanis to write a page about every industry on the planet, but in the world we all live in, we're just going to do some SEO so everyone can get on with their lives today.
I don't know Scoble, maybe it's just sour grapes, perhaps you are finding your profession of journalist has become sort of a four letter word these days and you felt the need to take someone else down a notch to make yourself feel better. Whatever the case is, perhaps next time you'll search Google to get your facts straight and maybe a few tips on making a video that doesn't suck. You sure as hell ain't going to find that info on Mahalo... well, maybe in the Google results fed in.
Labels: idiots, marketing, scoble, seo