Comments on: jyri on the blue monster

By: Julian Bond

Julian Bond — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:16:08 +0000

For balance perhaps we also need a “White Monster” for Apple. “Change the world or go home” is an equally good slogan for them. And when did Apple decide that appeasing corporate partners was more important than making insanely great products? They need to be reminded.
Of course a white monster might be hard to draw with a black pen.

By: Shelley Noble

Shelley Noble — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:23:02 +0000

Hey, Hugh, Congratulations for the great mention in Monday’s Financial Times (September 17, 2007; Business Life; page 12) I think what you’ve created here, for your blogging friends, for Stormhoek, for the advancement of Social Objects everywhere, is to be commended.
Well done!

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:03:47 +0000

You should consider doing a similar mascot for the RIAA and the handful of people inside who still love music and making great records. Seriously. If any organization needed a Blue Monster to rally around, it’s them.

By: Brian Sexton

Brian Sexton — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:57:19 +0000

Microsoft’s Windows Vista (specifically, I am using the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium) really did change my world: under Windows XP, I could count on my printers, scanner, other devices, and most software working well enough, but now I never know what will or won’t work. I have been transferring files over to an Ubuntu system just to print them. After months of suffering with Windows Vista, I just put Windows XP back on that system—dual-booting with Ubuntu—to transfer some of my Windows stuff back there and ease my Windows-using workflow, but even sharing files between Windows Vista and Windows XP is not as easy as sharing files between two Windows XP systems. Wow, way to change the world, Microsoft.
Don’t even get me started on Internet Explorer.
Talk, talk, talk. How very social. Let’s see some actual results—like a version of Windows that is actually *MORE* usable than previous versions or a version of Internet Explorer with XHTML support and a rendering engine as good as the ones in Konqueror, Safari, and Opera or even Firefox—or it doesn’t matter who gets what at Microsoft.

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:11:18 +0000

“…and others don’t.“
Hmmm… the Vista group, maybe?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:01:58 +0000

If the blue monster is their “unofficial mascot”, what’s their “official” one?
That floating window? It’s hardly inspirational…