http://www.findingfault.com One fault, maybe two or three, at a time Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:46:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Consider terms such as degrading and offensive. We at Finding Fault think these words describe subjective feelings and opinions, and should be acknowledged to do so. But many authors will not take the responsibility of owning their own opinions. Instead, they want somebody else to take the responsibility. We have seen ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/23/degraded-authors-who-blame-others/ You can find bad web design all over the Internet. We usually ignore it because we don't want to look like we spend all our time just finding fault.{{1. Even though we actually do.}} But also, a lot of bad web design comes from inconsequential and badly-run companies that come ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/09/wolframalpha-minor-failure/ A well-known blogger tries to make a point but has trouble doing it without using misrepresentation.{{1. Article "Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine" dated 2009-08-07 by Danny Sullivan http://searchengineland.com/revisionist-history-bartz-claims-yahoo-was-never-a-search-company-23725 visited 2009-08-07.}} Here is the first paragraph from that Writer's article: The New York Times has an interview out ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/08/disingenuous-blogger-misrepresents-bartz/ Bloggers keep trying to analyze Google, and they keep getting it wrong. They focus on Google a piece at a time like the blind men and the elephant{{9. Article "Five Blind Men and an Elephant" by unknown authors in online encyclopedia "Wikipedia the free encyclopedia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Blind_Men_and_an_Elephant visited 2009-07-08.}}. Finding Fault is ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/07/what-drives-google-part-1-the-simple-big-picture/ A corporation that doesn't properly inform its shareholders about likely future risks to its business can become liable to shareholders if their stock holdings lose value. Since nobody can be sure exactly what the future holds, corporations tend to err on the side of caution when listing risks in their ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/06/sec-filings-and-hyperactive-bloggers/ A famous blogger argues{{1. Article "The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray." dated 2009-07-04 by Michael Arrington in blog "TechCrunch" http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/the-reality-of-pr-smile-dial-name-drop-pray/ visited 2009-08-01.}} that allegedly bad PR doesn't pay as well as allegedly good PR. The proof takes the form of a chart{{1. The fuzziness of our image comes ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/05/correlation-versus-causation-versus-blogging/ The Associated Press (AP) has acquired a reputation for doing marginally dumb things. For example, AP will let you use four words from its copyrighted content at no charge, but quoting five words will cost you a fair amount of money ($12.50 in our example) if for profit. [caption id="attachment_1057" align="alignnone" ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/05/ap-dumb-bloggers-dumber/ We have been reading about a web browser-based tablet computing device called a CrunchPad. As first announced a year ago,{{1. Article "We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It." by Michael Arrington dated 2008-07-21 in blog "TechCrunch" http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it/ visited 2009-08-01. "I want a dead simple ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/01/mindless-blogging-with-no-local-storage/ "Journalism versus Blogging" is a false dichotomy that no competent writer would make. And that makes this an ironic but apt title for a discussion of a slightly different comparison: competent journalism versus mindless blogging. A blogger with a publishing background asked a silly question{{1. Article "Can Blogs Do Journalism?" dated ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/08/01/journalism-versus-blogging/ Microsoft's announcement of its "Bing" search engine was a dream come true for many bloggers. Content at last! Finally, something useful to write about! Finding Fault has been observing the feeding frenzy.{{9. If you are not one of the crowd, Dear Blogger, do not be offended. It's not you, it's ... http://www.findingfault.com/2009/07/14/bing-vs-bloggers-bing-winning/