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Another “Twitter is doomed” post because the system dropped below some magic marker line in the last week and probably has an uptime of 95%. (Royal pingdom scores it at 96%) Clearly it’s all over at 95% uptime.
Does anybody who writes about Twitter play World of Warcraft? They [...]

Snowtrooper, my semi-intrepid Dell keeled over from a bad case of USB drivers the other night, forcing me to repair the WinXP from the master CD. On the upside, running a fully legitimate rig meant having a recovery disc.
The downside was on the reboot, and the discovery that WinXP wouldn’t update. The reason? Microsoft [...]

From Rogue Columnist on the failure of newspapers
 
Money quote: Industry leaders were singularly cavalier about their loyal customers, while chasing ones they had little chance to attracting.
 
This has been seen in politics, media, and a whole host of organisations that operate on the presumption of loyalty to the idea of the organisation.  The reality is [...]