Talking back to Telus
Continuing the saga of the blocked web sites, Telus wrote to Derek Miller, and he has in turn replied, asking four superb and pointed questions: Can you tell me: (a) Whether you have contacted the website operator to see if the material you object to can be removed,...The latest tool in consumer vengeance: the blog
Since we’re on a revenge theme today, let’s take a quick look at consumers who are using blogs to take a swipe at companies what done them wrong. The Hobson and Holtz Report has spent the past week discussing two bloggers who are taking on companies that...Konfabulator’s revenge: tweaking the Tiger
They say living well is the best revenge. Others say the hell with that: revenge is the best revenge. A little software company may be about to prove both points of view right. A lot of Mac users have a warm place in their hearts for Konfabulator, a program that...The Telus firewall
While Telus cries foul over cable-cutting in its labour dispute, the company has been snipping a few virtual wires of its own. …Specifically, the connections leading to at least two web sites critical of the company. If you want to check out their perspective,...Apple vs. IBM, round 763
The latest numbers are in, and – ta da – more people bought Macintosh computers than IBM computers during the second quarter of 2005. For Mac fans like Derek, that’s a bittersweet victory. Whereas IBM was once the avatar of the Mac’s...
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