Ok, not an actual survey–my own bootleg analysis based on cross-referencing my favorite book of the moment, Stuff White People Like, and this article in Time magazine about Gen-X being aTwitter. According to the author of the Time article, Bill Tancer (author of Click: What Millions do Online and Why it Matters), Twitter’s largest age […]
Is Chazz Reinhold an Entrepreneur?
Forget what I said about all Gen-Y posts about career advice being identical and useless—this one is like no other job advice blog post I’ve ever read before. Somehow this guy makes a case for the interrelationship between casual sex, video games and entrepreneurship. Here is my Cliff Notes version of his salient points: Fun: […]
Is the Whale Jumping the Shark?
First I thought it was me…suddenly half my followers were gone, as were more than half of the people I was following. Maybe yesterday’s post recollecting the time my water broke offended people? Then I logged into my association’s account and same thing–more than half of the hard-won followers had disappeared, as had half the […]
Where does the Bloggosphere Intersect With the Real World?
Every day my inbox is packed with articles about the latest and greatest in SEO, social marketing trends, seminars announcements, new book promotions and tons of information about web communications, marketing and development. In just over a year’s time I have gone from knowing next to nothing about any of this stuff to knowing plenty. […]
The Expert’s New Clothes
I was trying to explain something to my daughter in terms of the classic tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” Having not read it in many a year, I was improvising, telling her it’s a story about an Emperor who’s not wearing any clothes but announces that he’s wearing some really fancy suit or something. Everyone […]
New Direction
I’m often been told by friends and co-workers that I can find anything. It started when I was a kid and could find anything as in literally find things–e.g. misplaced objects. There have only been a handful of times in my entire life when I’ve not been able to find something I or someone else […]