Watching the Facebook Vanity URL gold rush tonight reminds me of the 1st online account I ever had with a public service: I had an AOL account. In that walled garden in the early 90s, everyone felt like friends and…
Charlie Wilson, president of General Motors, is alleged to have said during his confirmation hearings as Eisenhower’s secretary of defense in 1952: “what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” On the day after General Motors declared bankruptcy,…
Last night’s Cleveland Cavaliers-Orlando Magic NBA game is now passing into the annals of sports “classics”, primarily because of the duel that Hedo Turkoglu of the Magic and LeBron James of the Cavaliers fought over the last minute or so…
I hate pledge drives. The thought of being contacted to give money to an organization, even one that I normally support, makes me uneasy. But I am happy to raise money for organizations I support and like the idea of…
My answer to the problem of oversaturation? Focus on one event or message and stay on target. Dave Lefkow of J&D Foods had laser focus on an idea: make everything taste like bacon. Now presiding over a budding empire that…
Friends have recently sent me a number of parodies of social media, among them that YouTube video suggesting how silly FB would be in real life and Flutter, the 26 character microblog parody. The fact that these trends are being…
Before Google was a verb, Twitter was an avocation, and Facebook was a way to spend your evening, it was easy to know where to get your information. Step 1: Go to your local library. Step 2: search the catalog…
Twitter is here to stay. It’s not all LOLCats any more, or even just meeting Shaq in a diner on a whim. Twitter is a new communications medium, or maybe just an old one, repurposed: the water cooler, sized to…
I confess: I am not an e-book reader. I use the old-fashioned library and a daily newspaper to consume printed media. Yet the recent introduction of Amazon’s Kindle 2 made me stop and think about whether I should consider changing…
