Archive for the ‘Satire’ Category

Why I Stopped Reading Magazines

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

There’s a lot of Magazine hype in the blogosphere recently, and I’ve contributed plenty of my own Magazine hype in the past. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience reading Magazines — an explanation of why I STOPPED reading ...

April Fools: A WhatTheyThink Tradition

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Sadly, April 1st fell on a Sunday this time around so we weren't able to get you. It fell on a Saturday last year! Trust me, we enjoy getting you. Since we decided to do an April Fools edition in 2003, our writers have had a ton ...

Google’s April Fools Post Says More than Its Obvious Amusing Intent

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Ok, when I saw the intro page for their April Fools joke, about "Gmail Paper," I thought it might make some sense because I actually remember when you could send a letter through AOL that they would print and mail for you. AOL discontinued that sometime around 1997 or so, ...

Marketing-speak Obfuscation Strikes Again!

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Shades of the dot com run-up! I haven't heard such great marketing-speak since the spring of 2000! The folks at X-rite have out lingo-ed the best of them... Yesterday, the Michigan-based company announced their Q4 and year end results for 2006. X-rite appears to show improvement pretty much across the board ...

Introducing The Book

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Frank Romano today at WhatTheyThink.com (link is to premium content - trial account is free!) narrates a fictional exchange between Tech. Support and someone having problem with their new technology: the book! The article is entitled "Book Helpdesk". I thought you might like to see how this actually ...