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

election

Don’t Make Me Feel Special

Posted on November 13, 2012

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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Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:08 — 42.2MB)

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

A Ballot With No Choices

Posted on November 8, 2012

Doling out the brutal truth that your insignificant life isn’t going to change much no matter who you voted for or who gets elected as President.

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I rant about my individual experience voting at the polls this presidential election, why choosing a third party candidate isn’t a wasted vote, the sorry state of electoral technology and that the title “political strategist” is just a fancy way of saying that they’re unemployed.

In addition, I give the shortest, least informative hands-on review of the new iPad mini since virtually every one already written is spot-on, yet still give a special “fuck you” message to anyone complaining about its lack of a retina display.

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 35:37 — 32.6MB)

Links from this episode:

Why vote? The marketing dynamics of apathy
Pundit Forecasts All Wrong, Silver Perfectly Right. Is Punditry Dead?
24 Hours With The iPad Mini: This Is The Real iPad

Skeuomorphic Narcissism

Posted on November 2, 2012

Doling out the brutal truth that no one really wants more tools in their lives and would much rather pay for someone else to do everything for them.

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I rant about the confusing positioning of the Microsoft Surface in the personal computer market, the stupid notion that Scott Forstall was ousted over an apology letter, why Google isn’t stupid for not including LTE in their Nexus 4 phone and generally bemoan early adopters who think products are made for their liking as opposed to fresh new consumers.

In addition, I explain how software fails to solve any problems that small business owners face and ponder how the concepts behind the Electoral College have changed through U.S. history as the federal government gained more and more power over states.

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:34 — 31.6MB)

Links from this episode:

Apple Software Chief Refused to Sign Maps Apology
Google’s lame duck explanation of why the Nexus 4 doesn’t have LTE
The Personal Computing Land Grab
What’s Still Holding Back a Small Business Software Revolution
Your Vote Doesn’t Count

It’s All Going To Be Yelp’s Fault

Posted on October 20, 2012

Doling out the brutal truth that it doesn’t matter who’s in charge since events will happen coincidentally and they will get blamed irregardless of their actual responsibility in the matter.

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I rant about the downside of Yelp’s new crackdown on paid reviews, Uber getting booted out of New York City, whether or not the app even solves a real problem plus Marco Arment’s new “The Magazine” app and why it’s a huge bet on the future of Apple’s Newsstand.

In addition, I explain why analyzing the intricacies of the presidential debates are a waste of time and how we’re actually getting the history of the social web wrong since we’re all fake in public.

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:05 — 31.2MB)

Links from this episode:

Yelp will warn consumers when businesses buy reviews
Why Uber Taxi won’t work in Manhattan
The Magazine, a different kind of periodical for Apple’s Newsstand
We have the history of the social web wrong