The Firehose Ate Me. How Social Media Ruins Our Lives.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Last week was the most self-reflective I've seen the Web in some time. Apparently, the Web 2.0/social media phenomenon started to get to people. The growth of mobile messaging groups, lifestreaming applications, Air desktop applications, audio and video services, aggregators, readers -- you get the idea -- has started to overwhelm ...

Comment!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

When newspapers -- or any media sources -- opens up its comment section, it's good if the people in charge actually pay attention, and engage, with the readers. That's the advice coming from the Online Journalism Review site today. I'm flabbergasted that it's even necessary to bring this ...

Social Media Tracking California Wildfires

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

During the wild fire outbreak in Southern California, I was at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, OH being lambasted by editorial newspaper writers who were convinced that their words spurred actions in communities -- and without them, people would have no way of knowing what was happening. I found this humorous ...

My Readers Love Firefox

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

We've been up and running for just a couple days here. I'm getting ready to launch this at SXSW -- and we'll see how well it does. I'm not anticipating an immediate rocket launch, but you never know. I'm still waiting to get my first comment (pimp in the box). For ...