5 posts and columns on Friday

Viral Video: This Year, First Round VCs Channel Rebecca Black (Rrrreeaaallly!)

in Media on December 20, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

Oh, dear — Silicon Valley VCs acting like teenage girls. And there’s not even a hot start-up in sight to chase and scream over.
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Viral Video: From the Mouths of Babes Oftime Come Insults of Rebecca Black

in News on April 18, 2011 at 3:18 am PT

And I thought I was the only one who was incredibly irritated by the latest YouTube sensation, Rebecca Black, and her profoundly grating “Friday” music video. Not so!

Rebecca Black and Friends, Circa 2080

in News on March 23, 2011 at 3:33 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

The Carol Bartz Is Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore Memo: The Hypoglycemic Edition

in News on August 31, 2009 at 5:10 pm PT

BoomTown promised a Yahoo internal memo upon our return from vacation today and we will not let you down. Thus, here’s a doozie Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz recently sent to her troops, telling them to snap out of their sugar low. One in a series of weekly Friday communications from her, from mid-August, this one got a lot of attention internally since it was a definite back of the hand for those Yahoos who perhaps dwelled too much on whether or not they liked the recent search deal she struck with Microsoft. Here’s the basic gist of it: Fie on naysayers, stop bellyaching, Yahoo rocks and get back to work!
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How to Kill the Rest of Your Friday

in Media on July 10, 2009 at 12:25 pm PT

Let’s be honest. You’re not getting anything productive done with the rest of the day. Why not sit back and watch a couple of interesting ads before the weekend starts?
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