http://www.boomawang.com We are just that important. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:12:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you happen to be alive, and I suspect that you are, than you know that the summer Olympics is currently happening in China.  Even worse is that some people think that the summer games is actually interesting.  Has anybody ever looked at the lineup of the summer games and ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/in-the-world/downfall-of-the-olympics/ Last week there was a video all over the local news about a fight which occured on the Buffalo Metrorail system.  It was quite a fight, made the cover of the Buffalo News, but YouTube took it down (Booo!).  Some creative minds made a parody of it in a Geo ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/online/buffalo-metro-fight/ I'm not going to lie... I buy a lot of stuff online.  I mean so much stuff that I have a sign permanently stuck to my front door "UPS Please Leave Packaged on Step". Let's recap some recent purchases... Aside from polo shirts, shorts, a shirt the says "Make your plastic ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/online/internet-retail/ I, like the average American, spend alot of time on Google.  Whether it's Googling the latest buzzword, or using one of the latest and greatest Google Apps.  Yeah I use Gmail as my main mail account and have used GChat, Picasa, Google Docs, Scholar and the whole bit.  The one ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/online/google-beta-12/ According to Webster to google means "to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine".  But shouldn't the definition be expanded to "to scam millions of people in to purchasing a stock at an exceptionally inflated price"? Don't concur with me?  You probably will get googled! Just ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/online/googled-an-expanded-definition/ What compels people to read articles online?  Is a genuine curiousity for the topic?  A striking headline?  Too much free time?  A release from office work? Why online?  Before the 21st Century people read newspapers, books, magazines, periodicals(what?), and even letters! GASP!  (The millennials in the audience are wondering what the ... http://www.boomawang.com/2008/08/online/what-compels-people-to-read-articles-online/