fernandorizo.typepad.com tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1758145 2010-02-10T11:00:39+00:00 The writings of a failed musician and middling historian, posted here from New York City & London since 2008. I am the head of digital media for Ketchum Pleon UK, a public relations consultancy. Nothing you read here is the perspective of that agency or any of its clients. I'm also an administrator at Wikipedia and make no apologies for being a nerd. You can email me at fdrizo at gmail dot com. TypePad links for 2010-02-10 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a8855904970b 2010-02-10T11:00:39+00:00 2010-02-10T11:00:39+00:00 kung fu grippe : 43 Simple Ways To Simplify Your Life Classic Merlin Mann. (tags: humor zen) Fernando Rizo http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-10.html links for 2010-02-04 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c012877610e77970c 2010-02-04T11:00:50+00:00 2010-02-04T11:00:50+00:00 CheckFacebook Facebook geographic distribution statistics and aggregated news, mined from Facebook's advertising back-end. (tags: facebook statistics analytics demographics socialnetworks) Facebook COO: 175 Million People Log Into Facebook Every Day According to Facebook, half of their 350 million unique users log... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/02/links-for-2010-02-04.html links for 2010-01-28 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a81c4361970b 2010-01-28T11:00:36+00:00 2010-01-28T11:00:36+00:00 After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site | The New York Observer Newsday says this is insignificant because they approach their Website as a value add for print subscribers, but newspapers like the New York Times that... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-28.html links for 2010-01-26 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c012877138b19970c 2010-01-26T11:00:53+00:00 2010-01-26T11:00:53+00:00 Geekosystem.com A "geek culture" site published by former MSNBC journo Dan Abrams. The site itself was designed by Rex Sorgatz (of Fimoculous and Gawker comments fame). It earns points from me right away by linking to MetaFilter in its blog... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-26.html spice up your crippling fear of aging by installing ICQ 7 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a80b78d5970b 2010-01-25T17:22:05+00:00 2010-01-25T17:25:13+00:00 ICQ came back today. At first I thought it was maybe this was part of a promotion for a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Blu-ray boxed set but no, it's actually ICQ. It couldn't have come on a better day for... Fernando Rizo
ICQ came back today. At first I thought it was maybe this was part of a promotion for a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Blu-ray boxed set but no, it's actually ICQ. It couldn't have come on a better day for me because my back hurt a bit and when I woke up I had been wondering whether Toad the Wet Sprocket had ever put out a greatest hits record. Might as well completely re-immerse myself in the 1990s and dig my ICQ number out of an old webmail account. I always loved the concept of an ICQ number.Mirabalis, ICQ's developers once hoped that your 8-digit long ICQ number would be become as important as your home phone number. This edition appears to dispense with numbers and what not which thwarts the nostalgic impulse that took me to the download page in the first place but is probably just as well because I stopped memorizing my phone numbers two phones ago.

ICQ, I'm told, is still quite popular in Russia and Eastern Europe where the images on the official Website suggest it is the IM client of choice for girls to announce shoe purchases. This new iteration isn't just for IMs, it also updates Twitter and your Facebook status..

Icq_girls



While installing, ICQ asked me to close Firefox, which I trustingly did, only to find upon re-starting my browser that ICQ had installed a toolbar and changed my default search engine to the ostensibly useful ICQ Search. ICQ is so committed to helping you relive the 90s that it installs browser toolbars without your permission. I can't recall the last time I uninstalled something so quickly. Then I had a look around my system to make sure there wasn't a goddamned Bonzi Buddy somewhere.

Leave the 90s back in the 90s.

[I wrote this last week but didn't post it then. I am a man of many mysteries.]

 http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/spice-up-your-crippling-fear-of-aging-by-installing-icq-7.html links for 2010-01-24 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a804f15e970b 2010-01-24T11:00:56+00:00 2010-01-24T11:00:56+00:00 Frank Serpico, Police Officer Played by Al Pacino, Looks Back - NYTimes.com Frank Serpico now lives alone in a one-room cabin two hours north of New York City. Interesting that the Times headline isn't "Police Officer Who Confronted Corruption", but... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-24.html links for 2010-01-13 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a7ccfbf7970b 2010-01-13T11:00:30+00:00 2010-01-13T11:00:30+00:00 Why Hollywood fears Nikki Finke : The New Yorker This New Yorker article from October 2009 isn't just an interesting window into Hollywood politics, it's a fascinating illustration of how the Web moves stories and memes and how traditional media... Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-13.html links for 2010-01-05 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c012876a9724e970c 2010-01-05T11:00:53+00:00 2010-01-05T11:00:53+00:00 FUCK FLICKR A Graffiti Research Lab-affiliated alternative to Flickr that encourages boycotting Yahoo products. (tags: flickr graffiti copyrightlaw photos streetart hosting yahoo) Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2010/01/links-for-2010-01-05.html links for 2009-12-29 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0120a788f770970b 2009-12-29T11:00:44+00:00 2009-12-29T11:00:44+00:00 FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror Nate Silver calculates the chances of a flight being attacked by a terrorist: one terrorist incident per 16,553,385 departures. (tags: statistics terrorism tsa homeland_security politics airlines travel) Fernando Rizo
http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2009/12/links-for-2009-12-29.html links for 2009-12-25 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a010535a39d59970c0128767ef95e970c 2009-12-25T11:00:43+00:00 2009-12-25T11:00:43+00:00 SearchMenu - Search Faster in Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox An extension (formerly known as Kallout) that adds expanded right-click contextual search options to Firefox. (tags: extensions firefox search browsers) Google Chrome Extensions: Del.icio.us Tools Currently the most reliable and... Fernando Rizo <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><ul class="delicious"><li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10722">SearchMenu - Search Faster in Firefox :: Add-ons for Firefox</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">An extension (formerly known as Kallout) that adds expanded right-click contextual search options to Firefox.</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/extensions">extensions</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/firefox">firefox</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/search">search</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/browsers">browsers</a>)</div> </li><li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gclkcflnjahgejhappicbhcpllkpakej">Google Chrome Extensions: Del.icio.us Tools</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">Currently the most reliable and full-featured Delicious extension for Chrome.</div> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/extensions">extensions</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/browsers">browsers</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/googlechrome">googlechrome</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/recursion">recursion</a>)</div> </li><li> <div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/12/22/new-report-young-people-watching-less-tv-more-internet-media/">New Report: Young People Watching Less TV, More Internet Media - Podcasting News</a></div> <div class="delicious-extended">&quot;According to a new report from Deloitte, millennials, the generation of 14- to 25-year-olds, watch just 10.5 hours of TV a week (older viewers watch twice as much!). They also spend less time watching DVDs than any other age group. <p>But while they are spending less time with television and DVDs, they are actually spending more time with media than any other age group – watching videos on the Internet, listening to music and playing video games.&quot;</div><br /> <div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/via_ClayShirky">via_ClayShirky</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/EndOfOldMedia">EndOfOldMedia</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/internet">internet</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/tv">tv</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/pr">pr</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/millenials">millenials</a> <a href="http://delicious.com/crm114/statistics">statistics</a>)</div><br /> </li></ul></p></div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Fernandorizotypepadcom/~4/5eDV-pn50l8" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.fernandorizo.com/blog/2009/12/links-for-2009-12-25.html