Remember the days of high school English class or getting a big paper assignment in college? I do. I never minded the act of writing; I was the type that thought having a “pen pal” in some far off country was pretty cool. (Mine never wrote back). However the concept of getting an assignment that [...]
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Are you really anonymous?
There’s an article entitled, Social Security, in the July/August edition of MIT Tech Review. (I’m behind in my reading so just catching up, I plan on starting to read the next one on the train ride home). First off, misleading title. The article has nothing to do with the federal retirement program that [...]
Merging of Worlds, Look Out!
As most know at this point, Facebook has acquired Friendfeed. There seem to be 50 plus posts on the topic on Techmeme. Mixed reviews at best on this one. From my reads, most seem more negative slanting. Scoble is excited but thinks this is end for Friendfeed as we know it. [...]
Nano Tweeting, the next little little thing
Many have seen the video already but I think Slate’s video about Flutter is too good not to post. If you haven’t seen it, are a Twitter fan (or not!) and want something to make you smile on a Tuesday, take 3:44 of your life to watch this video.
People simply do not have time [...]
It takes practice
I was watching Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk and Q&A session at SXSW. Been following Gary’s growing online business for a while now and written about him several times. At about 16:25 of the session, Gary talks briefly about his early days getting his video blog up and running. He tells the audience to go back his [...]
