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Book Review: Exodus, by @geoffliving 25 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Imagine a world where technology has been shunned and people are back to a pre-machinery existence. It sounds idyllic, but not all is well in the world that Geoff Livingston has created in Exodus, boo...
Amazing People Doing Amazing Things 8 Jun 2013 | 06:22 am
Often times here on this blog, I have quarreled with social media in front of you. How uncouth! While it’s true that social media and I have more conflicts than Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, there is...
Once in a Lifetime 4 May 2013 | 06:37 am
One of my favorite Talking Heads songs is Once in a Lifetime. Lately this stanza has been resonating: You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house? You may ask yourself, where does that highway ...
I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Signed Off 27 Apr 2013 | 05:34 am
I often wonder what a poet like Emily Dickinson would make of today’s online world. In the 19th century she wrote a poem about the moment of her death. People often imagine what it would be like to at...
Sorry, but I like my phone a little better than you 24 Apr 2013 | 06:26 am
When you get involved in online communication, it’s very easy to quickly reach a point where you are communicating with people all of the time. Multitasking has become the new “must” skill, and much o...
Needing the Illusion of Grandeur to Be Real 22 Apr 2013 | 05:45 am
In today’s world, we are bombarded with bad news. Murders, holes in the ozone, wars, people who are starving, people who are homeless, bad unemployment numbers, shaky governments, and so on. It’s no w...
Why do we post the things we do to the online world? 20 Apr 2013 | 09:28 pm
Back in 2010, I think, I decided that I was done with Facebook. OK, this wasn’t the first time I had come to that conclusion and it would not be the last. In this particular case, I decided I would go...
A Letter To Those Of You With 1,500 Twitter Followers Or Fewer 16 Apr 2013 | 05:20 pm
Yesterday, shortly after the events in Boston started to unfold, a person who is very well known online still had their automated posts flowing into Twitter. One such post mentioned something goofy or...
Rootless 14 Apr 2013 | 08:11 pm
About a year ago, Olivier Blanchard wrote a post called Social Media 1918. It’s an amazing post (obviously, if it is still on my mind a year later), but upon reading it I became reacquainted with a sa...
Defining Social Media Friendships 17 Mar 2013 | 06:41 pm
If you have been around me much, you know that I’ve been very pensive regarding this whole social media…thing. There is of course the business side. I’m a marketer – I can’t help but ponder the impact...
