Daily Archives: December 31, 2010

New Year’s Eve Blues

Flamewars and pixel fights
Back and forth in net leet
Twitter noise, another tweet
Things too hard to believe —
so log off

My heart’s in the real world
My brain’s online without you
All my friends are checkin’ Facebook
Talkin’ bad about you know who who who
My hand’s typin’ riddles
But I just can’t seem to find a clue
So I take a swig of whiskey
And jump into the chat room without a view

And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues

Bugs in the codebase
Worms in the server farm
All my neighbors think I’m crazy
And my girl thinks I’m losin’ my cool cool cool
And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues

Don’t look to 4chan to change your seasons
It’s the American dream
Souls of hackers, wireless streams
Can’t seem to find no peace so log off

And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
I got the New Year’s Eve blues
And I just can’t seem to break the shackles of the New Year’s Eve blues

I got the blues, I got the blues, I got the blues,
I got the blues
I got the blues, I got the blues, I got the blues …

To the tune of “City Boy Blues” by Motley Crue.

SpendFool, New Year’s Eve Day just isn’t the same without you.

2010 Was A Sad Year for Innovation

After reading “the top six innovation ideas of 2011” on the HBR blogs, it only re-emphasized my belief that 2010 was a dead-end year innovation-wise. I don’t even want to think about what could be worse. Consider:

  • Contestification
    Can’t sell your product? Use digital media to crowd-source your marketing ideas from your customers while overpaying your CMO!
  • Keep Touching Me and I’ll Screen!
    Why read an article when you can touch, tap, stroke, finger, fondle, and pinch content-free videos?
  • WWWabs
    Why spend money doing proper software development and quality assurance when you can release crappy beta and let your customers QA for you?
  • That’s Quite A Coup, Onward Group!
    Digital coupon sites are now a six billion dollar enterprise.
  • From Farmville to Pharmville: We Got Game in Business
    As the economy went down the tubes, mindless games became a trillion dollar industry.
  • A Beautifully Designed Lobby
    In 2011, a marginal dollar invested in a lobbying campaign may yield far greater returns than a dollar invested in a brave new technology innovation.

All-in-all, it’s depressing.

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