July 2011
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Sure, You Know Me. But Do You Know That I Know... →
January 2011
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December 2010
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November 2010
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Stop Doing Things. And Do Something For The... →
August 2010
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July 2010
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Wanna Check Out My EPIC Slide Show?
Awesome. You’ve just returned from vacation and had the BEST. TIME. EVER. And you want everyone to experience your post-sojourn joy right along with you. What better way than to share your pictures with your friends? Share them online! WOO!
Share each and every one of the 557-thousand shots you snapped. Your friends won’t mind clicking through 37 attempts at getting a shot of...
April 2010
2 posts
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You Like Me! You Really Like Me!
You may have noticed something different around The Facebooks today.
As they announced in March, Facebook began rolling out a subtle, but potentially game-changing semantic alteration on “fan” and “group” pages. Starting today, you won’t become a “fan” of something, you’ll simply “like” it.
If you’re like me, becoming a fan of...
The Yin & The Yang of Customer Service →
February 2010
2 posts
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January 2010
1 post
My 20 Favorite Movies of All-Time
I saw a discussion on Twitter between friends Rob Hahn (@RobHahn) & Maya Paveza (@MayaREGuru) about their 20 favorite movies of all-time. I’ve been obsessed with the subject ever since (this is pretty serious … it’s been at least 8 hours … and I guess I did sleep in there somewhere and have some coffee and breakfast. But still. I’m obsessed!)
But I digress.
This...
November 2009
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October 2009
2 posts
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A Much Better Title Would Be: Woman Arrested For...
Has everyone, by now, read the story about the woman who was arrested for poking someone on Facebook?
I have read post after post with headlines like, “Be Careful Who You Poke” (and that oughtta be “whom”, by the way) or some such thing. Except … if people would actually stop to read the STORY — you know … the actual FACTUAL part? — they’d see...
The Wisdom of The Crowd →
This isn’t the post that I intended to write today. Sure, I’ll probably clickety-clack that one out, as well, but I’ve got some other things that are weighing heavily on my mind.
Why are…
September 2009
8 posts
Rocketing Into The Twitterverse: Exploring The... →
Today, I’m happy to introduce you to The Constwellations! A project I’ve been working on for some time, The Constwellations explores how we engage with Twitter (and the social web, on the whole) ……
Watchspiegelman:
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President...
You’re Doing It Wrong! Wrong, I Tell You! WRONG! →
I am often struck, in the online space, by how quick people are to judge others. By how people rush to point out how someone else is doing it wrong. Oh, yes. Taking cheap shots, ridiculing…
Can’t We All Just Get Along? →
I don’t understand all of this … sniping.
When it comes to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed … whatever … each of us has a favorite. But what’s with all of the vitriol? Grown people, professional…
Are You A Responder? →
Responsiveness.
How are you with that? If someone sends you an email, leaves you a voice mail message, text, or attempts to connect with you in some way, how and when do you respond? Do you…
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Don't Lose Sight Of What's Really Important
On Twitter, and in other Great Bastions of Social Media Significance, we tend to blather on, ad nauseum, about inconsequential, but seemingly important, minutiae.
Who’s spamming. Who’s using AutoDM. FollowFriday is clogging the stream. I hate typing in the captcha. And so on and so forth. Blah. Blah. Blah.
Don’t get me wrong … I’m right in the thick of things....
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“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a...”
– While sad, to be sure, this poem by W.H. Auden is one of my favorites of all-time. A smart bugger, he was.
“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need...”
August 2009
8 posts
All of This Self-Flagellation Is Unnecessary.
So, someone gave you a @mention in one of their FollowFriday tweets. Super. That’s great (no, really, it is).
Here’s the thing.
It is altogether unnecessary for you to REtweet those mentions, simply to give yourself a pat on the back. Thank the person who mentioned you, preferably in a DM. Send THEM an @message, if you like. Retweeting those messages, though? That’s just...
7-Year-Old Boys Are Awesome.
Today, my son (who’s in 2nd grade) was learning about plurals.
As I went through his backpack this afternoon, I found a worksheet that he’d done in school. The exercise had him (and his class) writing the singular form of a word, then the plural. At the bottom of the page, there was a section entitled “On Your Own”, in which they were told to write other words that showed...
No, no, no ... NO!
People. You do NOT need an apostrophe to make something plural. Adding the “s” is just fine. Thank you.
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Where Do College Students Stand on Tech?
I happened on a copy of an alumni magazine published by Loyola College in Maryland. In this issue (Fall 2009), the college polled 123 students about their personal technology use. The results are pretty interesting! And there’s one student who still has a record player. WOW!
I Own A: Cell Phone: 122 PDA: 9 iPhone: 9 MP3 Player: 117...
You Can’t Stop Me, You Can Only Hope To Contain Me →
Can you think of an industry that has to deal with a more constant barrage of PR-related idiocy than sports? OK, maybe politics, but that’s not so much an industry as a giant trainwreck, constantly…
Your Affect is Chafing My Effect. Now, Lay Off &... →
I can’t take it, I tell you. I just can’t take it anymore.
I need to know why it is that grown people — educated people, no less — can’t seem to grasp basic and, yes, I’ll say it, simple rules of…
Your Affect is Chafing My Effect. Now, Lay Off &... →
“Isn’t sanity just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all you get is that one...”