What’s on your mobile device?
Your mobile life and what you can do in the rest of your life I’ve had an iPhone for almost a year, and am astonished at the changes that it’s made in my productivity. The main difference is that where…
The Big Short – Michael Lewis on Why We Looked the Other Way
I recently finished reading Michael Lewis’ excellent book The Big Short, and I’m left with two emotions: surprise at how long the party lasted for securities with no underlying value, and shock at the lack of questions we all had…
5 Reasons You Should Keep Reading a Newspaper
Disclaimer: I’ve been reading newspapers almost daily since I was 7, and I know that puts me in an increasing minority. But I think that stubborn determination also puts me in an interesting position to comment on the relative importance…
Obligatory iPad Post (by the way, it’s a gamechanger)
The last day or so, I was trying to figure out what not to write about the iPad. Would I not write that it was like an iPod/iPhone, only bigger? Would I not write that it should have had handwriting…
Has Twitter Subscriber Growth Peaked?
CNN reported this week that Twitter subscriber growth had peaked and that visits to the site were relatively flat. This information doesn’t seem to match the reports from Twitter itself that the number of tweets per day keep growing and…
#Announcerfail and other insta-news topics, courtesy of Twitter
Twitter just made watching bad football games more interesting for me. I’ve been complaining this football season about the various wrongs the NFL has visited upon me: local game blackouts, the general poor play of my beloved Eagles just when…
What I learned on my Winter Vacation about Social Media
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I took a vacation this week. It was relatively short (don’t blink — you’ll miss it), but I learned some important things along the way. I read Erik Qualman’s book Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live…
Why Improving things by 10x Matters for New Product Adoption
I’ve now got 500 (probably 800) channels and there’s nothing on. Well, I’ve overstated the fact. I have about 30 movie channels, at least 7 channels dedicated to major sports leagues, and innumerable shopping, food, and car chase channels. I…
The 5 Things You Need To Know to Get Started in Social Media in 2010
As this is a “list” time of the year, I thought I would take a minute and share my thoughts about how to get started in Social Media in 2010. I’ve been talking to a lot of people about this…
