Three “sign of the times” news stories and the blurred lines between the physical and virtual worlds.
Entries from April 2014
Virtual Midnight Madness: A 24/7 State of Mind
April 26th, 2014 Comments Off on Virtual Midnight Madness: A 24/7 State of Mind
Tags: Canada Post · e-commerce · Grand Toy · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · midnight madness · shopping malls
Magellan, Are You Listening? A Social Media Experiment
April 18th, 2014 Comments Off on Magellan, Are You Listening? A Social Media Experiment
Giving Magellan GPS a chance to make up for their crappy customer service via a Social Media experiment.
Tags: duct tape · GPS · Magellan · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Red Green · social media
The Lost Data Insurrection – Engineers Beware
April 11th, 2014 Comments Off on The Lost Data Insurrection – Engineers Beware
Catastrophic computer failure and the technological karma that awaits hardware engineers.
Tags: computer crash · data cloud · hardware engineer · karma · lost data · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet
Random Act of Metaphor: Ghost Fog Creeping Through Rifts in Reality
April 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Random Act of Metaphor: Ghost Fog Creeping Through Rifts in Reality
Slipping through a keyhole to wander free in the moors of 19th century England.
Tags: Dr. Watson · fog · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Sherlock Holmes · The Hound of the Baskerville