Posts relating to the USA.
Found on Pete’s Tumblr today. Can you believe it’s been 30 years since the man died? A few weeks later, John Lennon was murdered. Very enjoyable, though I still like the old Ford Puma ad from a decade ago: My American friends prefer a later Steve McQueen ad promoting the Mustang: I still think […]
Read More… from Steve McQueen, advertising spokesman, 1980 to date
Even though I am no longer blogging on Vox, I have some good news there: the cars’ group that I founded got its 100th member today. It’s actually the third time we’ve crossed 100, but on those previous occasions, it was sploggers that got us over that number. And each time I’ve had to […]
I believe we have all the basic Chrysler K-cars of the early 1980s on Autocade as of today. Older readers might remember that at the dawn of the 1980s, Chrysler was in terrible shape and needed loan guarantees—as opposed to a bailout—from the US Government. With Chairman Lee Iacocca at the helm, the company […]
Rick Klau’s action today in restoring Vincent’s Social Media Consortium blog got me putting things into perspective. We know sites like Blogger and Vox are free, but what happens when they fail? Vox, the Six Apart blogging service, had been where I had put my personal posts—as well as a bunch of private […]
Read More… from As the 2010s dawn, there’s a vacuum on the internet
All it takes is finding the right bloke and hoping they would do the right thing. At the end of the day, that was the lesson in getting Vincent Wright’s Social Media Consortium blog restored. Yesterday, Josh Forde Tweeted me about an article he had read, where John Hempton’s Blogspot-hosted blog had been […]
Read More… from Google’s Rick Klau restores Social Media Consortium
Fascinating, isn’t it? If you happen to have a Blogger blog that was wrongly deleted, and one of your readers is Felix Salmon of Reuter, then of course Google is going to come to your rescue within a day. (The link, and an important detail below, was found by Josh Forde and Tweeted to me […]
Is it any wonder Vox’s resources are taxed? Here’s a chap that does 3,265 posts in a month—all off-site spam. (I won’t give them the privilege of a link—no point raising their search engine rankings.) I vote that Vox has some form of alarm at HQ for people who blog too often. Twitter and […]