MINIMUMFAILURE
Blog URL http://minimumfailure.com
Located Charlotte, North Carolina USA
Tags charlotte nc, mecklenburg county, politics, north carolina, hyperlocal, blog, criticism, north charlotte, university city
Aspiring astronaut Matthew Ryan Vincent attempts to inspire the greater Charlotte Mecklenburg region to be politcally active, socially active and just generally active.
Latest Blog Posts
- MiniFail Memory: Thanksgiving on Nov 26, 2009 in NEWS Not False
. Every few years, my mother decides she and her brothers and sisters aren’t exactly living up to their familial potential. So, she organizes Thanksgiving dinner for her three siblings and all their children. Everything goes pretty much as plan...
- MiniFail Stamp of Approval: Twitter’s new RT function on Nov 24, 2009 in NEWS TECHNOLOGICAL heretical 93octane Charlotte NC charlotte observer jeff elder Mecklenburg County retweet RT twitter
The thing is, you can still ReTweet it the old way. *disclaimer — I write from a point of view that keeps the casual user in mind. Not just geeks.* What if you don’t have anything else to say? Now, you don’t have to rewrite and poss...
- Sustainability Paradoxes and The End of Education on Nov 23, 2009 in NEWS
I like my blog posts to show my thought processes. Hopefully, the ideas below will germinate into a more coherent article, but for now I’m sharing some raw thoughts of mine from today: When the learning curve has leveled off and the hype has lo...
- MiniFail Blog Views: November 20, 2009 on Nov 20, 2009 in NEWS
Lately, I’ve heard people getting upset with the Government telling bailed out banks how some super rich bank employees can’t have their bonuses. Merry Christmas, eh? In Charlotte we’ve been getting upset when our local Government e...
- Citizen Journalism Cage Match: Paul Carr vs. Jeff Jarvis on Nov 11, 2009 in NEWS Not False POLITICAL TECHNOLOGICAL citizen journalism jeff jarvis paul carr techcrunch wnyc
The strangest bit about this exchange is that it’s playing out on Techcrunch, a website established by Michael Arrington. Process journalism (and citizen journalism falls under that umbrella) has few more vocal (or published) advocates than th...
- Ad Inspiring on Nov 9, 2009 in NEWS heretical
That’s exactly what this HP spot is. I like the idea of something artistic on its own followed by the reveal that its on message for what some company wants. It’s not showing us how one specific product can change all our lives for the be...
- MiniFail Movie Review: The Marc Pease Experience on Nov 6, 2009 in NEWS heretical ben stiller coconut records jason schwartzman movie nostalgia review the marc pease experience
I didn’t know “The Marc Pease Experience” existed until I saw the cover for the movie appear on the touchscreen of the automated dollar-a-day dvd rental kiosk at the grocery store. There were merely two actors listed in the movie, o...
