Formula One 2015 Testing Starts With Surprises
Winter is very short in the F1 world, the last race was in November and now, about 90 days after, the teams are already at their first pre-season test session for the 2015 season....
Author: alex
What Happened to the Free Revolution?
Subtitle: What happened to the Free! Revolutionaries? It’s been a few years now that I talked about the supposed Free revolution. The idea was generally that with infinite and free online distribution, you could...
Jeff Gordon Says It’s His Final Championship Year in NASCAR
I have to use some careful wording when I say this, because Jeff Gordon was careful as well He’s not retiring. “I don’t want to use the R-work” he said. Rather, after a long...
Uber Hits The Skids
Unless you live under a non wifi enabled rock, you pretty much must know of the company called Uber. According to Wikipedia, Uber is an app-based transportation network and taxi company. Basically you use...
The Real Takeaway From Ferguson
What have we learned from Ferguson and other tragedies in America? America has reached a tipping point, but not the one you expect.
Kim Kardashian Broke The Internet So Lets Fix It
Last week, the #breaktheinternet hashtag was by far the most popular, as media whore (no other nice term applies) Kim Kardashian was pictured on the cover of Paper Magazine with her rather rotund behind...
An Open Letter To Bernie Ecclestone
An open letter to F1 supreme leader Bernie Ecclestone, hopefully one of his helper monkeys will print this out for him to read.
Bitcoins Are Not a Ponzi Scheme – sort of
Some say Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme. I suggest that it is in a way, but not because of investors – but because of processing.
F1:14 – The Rapidly Failing Math of Bernie
It’s been a really wild few weeks in the world of Formula 1. Not surprisingly, it has little to do with the action on the track, as the cars have been silent during the...
The Vapid Business Models Of The New Economy
I have been working in the online world in one fashion or another since pretty much before there was an online world. My first business venture with friends was well over 30 years ago,...
F1 House Of Cards Starts to Collapse, Caterham and Marussia Out For Now
Marussia and Caterham are two Formula 1 teams who have spent the last few years circling around at the back of the grid. Like fellow back markers HRT (who died a painful death last...
Making The Audience Think They Are Smart
I am probably not the first one to figure this out, but I just wanted to write about it because it sort of came to me all in one big pile: The best TV...
First Russian GP Race Shows All That Is Wrong with F1
It’s rare that all of the faults of any sporting series or even business are exposed all in one shot. It’s even rarer when it’s done on an international scale to the point where...
Stupidity and Greed Combine for F1 Tragedy
Often in hindsight, one can see all the steps that have lead to a tragic event. Marussia F1 drive Jules Bianchi rests in a Japanese hospital, fighting for his life after a tragic and...
