TechGrumps 5: TED’s dead, baby.

This week we have David Eastman on as our special guest, and Ian joins in again sans Internet. We discuss all sorts of douchebaggery including Chris Anderson’s barmy thesis that the web is dead, Nick Carr’s contention that the Internet is making us stupid and Amy Hoy’s idea that the best way to become an entrepreneur is to spend all one’s time reading business books. In addition to the traditional “Hacker News with more swearing” we discuss the TED conference, Whyday, how much more humble we are than you, the idiotic obsession that Silicon Valley types have with declaring technologies to be “dead”, the Google-Verizon net neutrality nonsense and other topics that induce rage, anger and disappointment at the utter crapness of all technology.

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TechGrumps 4: Douchebag Weekly Review

Picture the scene. You are out trying to look for porn on the Internet. This shouldn’t be too difficult, right? Porn is everywhere on the Internet – as testified to by all those stories of the little old ladies circa 1997 who wanted to find the website for the WI and ended up finding something very dirty. But, no, no porn for you. Instead, you find yourself pursuing the idle ramblings of social media and marketing douchebags, peppered with detailed Moleskine pen reviews by members of a bizarre and highly ritualistic productivity cult and inane and heavily retweeted ramblings by rockstar programmers.

This nightmareish scenario is played out with the full cast of grumpy arseholes this week: we’ve even managed to rescue Ian from the self-induced Gehenna known as IKEA of Manchester. Its well good this week, so take a listen.

Next week? Oh, you know, the usual blathering about how much we hate everything except the sound of our own expletive-laced voices. And maybe a special guest.

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