Tom Morris: 2007-04-07

2007.04.07

Jason Calacanis has a stunning link to Sam Zell, a newspaper owner who seems utterly clueless. There sure are lots of them... 2007-04-07T23:29:20Z

Engadget says that the Apple TV requires HD. Just like the iPhone, someone didn't think about the world outside the United States where HDTV is not nearly as available. Plus, it doesn't currently support anything other than Apple's standard media formats. Why not just let people plonk on any QuickTime plugins they want? Utterly retarded. 2007-04-07T22:02:51Z

Tom Croucher has pictures of the latest Ask.com adverts. They've had these silly things on the Tube. I really dislike technology adverts that don't talk about the damn product. This reminds me of the adverts that SanDisk put up a while back for their Sansa MP3 players - which made a big deal out of the fact that they aren't iPods. Yeah, we get it. You don't have as many users. Why exactly should I care? Perhaps if you told me about all the great features your product has I might use it. I presume that if you are advertising your product without explaining the advantages your site has over your competition, you don't have any advantages. I guess the Ask.com folks really are desperate. 2007-04-07T21:35:31Z

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Tom Morris tom@tommorris.org

Currently in: Kent, England

Usually in: East Sussex, England

I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

I also write for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project. If you know about stuff, you should join in. I occasionally produce audio recordings for The Pod Delusion.

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