Cross-posting information will eventually work against you
One of the advantages of moving my all of my feeds (yes, that includes Twitter) into my RSS reader (meaning, one spot I completely control and manage), I notice a startling trend. I’m receiving mass...
View ArticleComments and RSS
Let’s have a conversation about comments. With the rise of third party sites like FriendFeed it is getting harder to keep up with comments. If you are unfamiliar with FriendFeed the site is an...
View ArticleUnwanted “advice” sucks
This is an entry I’ve been wanting to make for a while, but I keep forgetting. Thanks to Jay’s Twitter message, I remembered the topic. He twittered the following: Everyone who thinks it’s so funny to...
View ArticleScrobble for blogs? I don’t think so…
Do I want every blog/site I visit tracked and published anywhere? No. Do I think sites I visit are necessarily worth “mentioning” on a blog/site? No. Am I so lazy that I won’t use something like...
View ArticleMicrosoft should be scared because of Chrome OS? That’s laughable.
You ever read an article and think, “bullshit”? That was my thought when I read TechCrunch’s What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared. First off, I am a long-time Windows...
View ArticleAn honest look at personal brands and social media
I read an article Unlike Advertising, Social Media Can’t Save A Bad Brand, Product Or Service . When I read further down, the author clarified what he meant: Maybe Social Media is the last thing you...
View ArticleiPhone 4 is cool but let’s talk about the data plans…
The WWDC was yesterday and yes, they talked about the video chat, bigger display, yeah yeah blah blah. I’m not putting the phone down, I honestly expected no less from Apple. What I want to talk about...
View ArticleWhen DVRs watch you
It seems that the Xbox One might violate the proposed “We are watching you” legislation: These DVRs would essentially observe consumers as they watch television as a way to super-target ads. It is an...
View ArticleWhen is wearing Google Glass appropriate?
What would you do if a friend came to your house wearing Google Glass? Or met you for lunch wearing them? Or a guy/girl went on a “date” with you wearing Glass? They “could be” recording you. The way...
View ArticleIs Your Hotel Room Really Clean?
I have friends that travel a lot. I would like to travel next year as I haven’t traveled in a while. Picking a good hotel, especially if you have technology, is important to many people (it is to me)....
View ArticleAnd the winner is…no one
I noticed a trend with online communications: people cross lines online they wouldn’t cross with face to face interactions. People say things or do things and don’t think of the future repercussions....
View ArticleSteve Rubel found a hack that’s not a hack
Steve Rubel made a post “Read Most of O’Reilly’s Hacks Books for Free Using Google”. When I read it this morning, my first thought was that he should have reported this to either Google or O’Reilly,...
View ArticleEvery action has a consequence
I’ve often said that any decision can change the direction of your life forever. I usually use the scenario of a hall of doors one can walk through or forks in a road one has to pick from. Every action...
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iPad, loyalty, appreciation and selfishness. Check yourself.
There has been a lot of talk about the iPad lately. There is one article I want to focus on: Why My Mom’s Next Computer Is Going To Be An iPad. The author explains why he’s getting his Mom an iPad. The...
View ArticleResolving privacy/security issues: geolocation based services
An interesting site launched recently. It’s called Please Rob Me and shows one of many potential problems using geolocation based services. If someone checks in, announcing they are away from home,...
View ArticleEmail tracking. I’m not a fan.
I saw a tidbit about MSGTAG over at Lockergnome and thought I would post my two cents about it. Now I admit, there are times when I sent an email and wondered if it was received. I hate read receipts...
View ArticleTwitter: what are you doing right now?
Responding to email, I received the following question: I’m new to the nets and I’m curious about Twitter. What is the purpose of Twitter? This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while....
View ArticleTo friend or not friend, that is the question…
“I do not know if this has happened to anybody, but this morning I log on to Facebook and I have a new friend request!” wrote 19-year-old Mike Yeamans, a sophomore at James Madison University, on one...
View ArticleGood communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to...
I interact with people all day through various methods: email, instant message, text message, voice and video. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I interact with people lately. A couple of months ago I...
View ArticleThe Problem With Fake News: People Don’t Care If They’re Wrong
I’ve spoken many times on the problem of fake news on Facebook. I’ve ranted about it on Facebook. It is a burden to keep pointing out fake posts to people. It would be great if Facebook automatically...
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