March 10th,2008

Tech Side Up: Monetizing your pets one day at a time!

By Jayvee

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Months ago we had a blog called Emerging Earth, a blog that talked about “emerging technology” as it was - you know, the whole blogging bit and how we try to monetize photos of cats and dogs with captions. Thing is, a lot of the things that were just “emerging” a few months ago are already here. With alpha being the new beta and exclusive being the new public, technology and culture moves too fast (and too furious) that there’s no such thing as “privacy” anymore.

So we’ve launched, well re-launched an all too familiar blog in the technology channel called Tech Side Up, a blog that talks about technology and how it is reshaping our culture on a day to day basis. Add the ramblings of anti tech luddite Mike Abundo.

Technological advancement changes the way people see the world. Up becomes down, good becomes evil, smart becomes stupid, small becomes big, safe becomes dangerous, outcasts become moguls, cats become cash. As Gnarls Barkley sings, all this expansion of human consciousness can seem a little Crazy. [MIKE]

Looking at things from another perspective, Tech Side Up is another blog for those people who can’t get enough of Mike Abundo, the guy responsible for the Mike Abundo Effect as popularly coined by PR maven Steve Rubel.

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The Conversation

Mike Abundo on March 10th, 2008 at 11:11

Yeah, I can’t get enough of me either. ;)

Tink on March 23rd, 2008 at 00:46

I have nothing against technology, it definitely has it’s advantages and place. What I don’t like is that with so much of it, by the time you get it home it’s already outdated… so in no time you’re forced to either upgrade or fall behind. Keeping up with the Jones’s has gotten to be extremely expensive!

I’m of the old school. I have thus far refused to have a cell phone. My kids HATE that I don’t have one and have tried every argument in the book to convince me that in todays world it’s a necessity. What they can’t understand is that if I am away from the house, the last thing I want is for them or anyone else to still be bothering me with their issues. I need that escape more than I need to be on call for them 24/7. There’s nothing so urgent that it can’t wait until I get home.

Mike Abundo on March 25th, 2008 at 09:05

My maid has a cellphone. The garbageman has a cellphone. The guy selling fishballs at the corner has a cellphone. It’s not so much “keeping up with the Joneses” as “keeping up with Joe Blow”.

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