Hey, I'm Jordan Cooper.
Stand-up comic. Web marketer. Tech douchebag.

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Don’t Make Me Feel Special

Doling out the brutal truth that no matter where you choose to get your news there will always be inaccuracies, so having a constant skeptical eye is a requirement.

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I rant about Best Buy’s price-matching strategy for combatting showrooming, how it’s laughable they’re investing in training their employees about Windows 8, and ultimately why their customers are choosing to do business with Amazon instead (it’s not all about price!).

In addition, I jump on the bandwagon to discuss the Republican’s Election Day failures yet admit their IT troubles are actually commonplace in every company’s IT department across the world. Finally, I stand up for Twitter in the debate on whether or not news that breaks on the platform has any journalistic integrity.

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Links from this episode:

Best Buy’s Amazon price match is a $400M all-in bet it can’t win
Best Buy Invests 50,000 Hours of Employee Training on Windows 8
Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown
Twitter: the future of journalism, or only the bad kind?
Retweeting Without Reading? Yeah, It’s Happening

The Torture Porn of Tech News

Doling out the brutal truth that anyone offering you free things without a catch always has a hidden agenda.

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I rant about the new iPhone and why I’m not getting one regardless of what Apple decides to name it, how Samsung’s blogger outreach almost turned into a scene from the movie ‘Hostel’ and the hypocrisy of tech blogs condemning newspaper publishers shifting to a digital-first strategy.

In addition, I ponder what the new CEO of Best Buy needs to tackle to right the ship of the big box retail giant, how their employees are just glorified label readers, why I only trust salespeople who work for commission, and harp on about the real cost of HDMI and audio cables.

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Links from this episode:

Why the iPhone 5 name makes sense
Samsung “deeply apologizes” to Indian blogger
If I Were The CEO Of Best Buy
Turns out Blogging Is Easy: It’s Just Filler!
Oregonian Memo Describes A Beat Reporter’s Digital Day