Archive for March 14th, 2007

14
Mar

MyBlogLog help

   Posted by: Jeffrey    in Technology

I have been using MyBlogLog since before I attended Northern Voice, and it always worked fine until last week. Suddenly, the pictures of my site's visitors stopped appearing in the little box on the left of my homepage. I have tried to contact their support numerous times with emails, but no response. I am not sure if perhaps they do not have the staff to reply to their increasing customer base, and I am disappointed by this since I think their product is a great community-builder. I am considering canceling my account with them since I do not like having something that is broken on my blog, especially when its fixing it beyond what I can do.

14
Mar

Red Bull and Kitty Genovese

   Posted by: Jeffrey    in Culture

Did anybody see the new Red Bull commercial of the superhero who, after hearing a woman screaming for help outside his window, goes to his refrigerator and finds he has no more Red Bull? He then shrugs his shoulders: "No Red Bull. No wiiings."

And he does nothing.

This commercial made me shudder. I remember the story of the brutal killing of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens in Queens who was brutally stabbed outside and apartment building and then in the vestibule while neighbors did nothing. 38 people heard her scream for help as she was attacked 3 times by her murderer, and nobody did anything. Nobody helped her. Nobody called the police. Nothing.

Does Red Bull know they are repeating this horrible story of people turning a blind eye to those around them? In the commercial, the superhero even closes his window at the end, closing out the woman's screams just as those people did years ago. Truly distasteful.