Not gonna happen Multitasker? I call bullshit. My last post was an accidental review of PBS Frontline’s “Digital Nation”, where some really savvy reporters travel around listening to tech-heads and educators and regular folks trying to figure out, in grand Double Rainbow fashion, what our reliance on technology in daily life really means. I had [...]
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PBS Frontline – Digital Nation
September 6th, 2010
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Are our brains changing? “Over the past 20 years, the net has changed from a thing one does to the way one lives.” – Doug Rushkoff, Digital Nation I made it a point to sit myself down for 90 full minutes and watch PBS Frontline’s “Digital Nation”. The video played in full-screen so that I [...]
Is brand loyalty really just brand ignorance?
August 25th, 2010
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Decisions, decisions… Do we make decisions about what to buy or who to support based on rational calculations of value, craftsmanship, and cost, or are we simply ignorant about alternatives? What does Twitter have to do with all of this? Hint: if I don’t mention Twitter, no one will pay attention. :) Built Ford tough, [...]
Living “off” the web – The Incursion Lifestyle
July 20th, 2010
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I fully expect this to happen. My Droid X is in the mail. It’s a phone that happens to do internet things in a groovy way. It can also spawn multiple copies of itself that morph into common household appliances. I made up that last part. Having a smartphone (in the Droid’s case, a superphone) [...]
Digital Social Contract, Part 1
July 16th, 2010
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The Internet King A lot of writers talk the web’s effect on how we communicate and collaborate and all kinds of other things. I’m more concerned with how the web is changing society and what it means for our future togetherness and apartness. Let’s drag up the old term “social contract” and stick the word [...]
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Making lists of lives to save
July 14th, 2010
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We (humans) make lists. Lots of lists. We love lists. We have lists of lists. There are people who write about lists of lists; we also make lists of those people. In this respect, the web has been both gift and curse. The immense popularity of Remember the Milk, Stickies (in many formats), and Evernote [...]
7 job interview tips inspired by Twitter
July 13th, 2010
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So…how many followers do you have? Mark Mann over at Denvelopers asked me to construct an interesting list. At the time, I was deep inside a job search. Inspired by that process and the ways in which I’ve seen Twitter rise to prominence, this is what I came up with. Keep it short Whether it’s [...]
Book review: Quick Bites by Rick Bakas
July 7th, 2010
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This is a real picture of my face and Rick’s book We have all seen blog posts like these: 10 Strategies to be a Better Blogger 9 Social Media Power Tips 15 Ways to Engage Your Audience Online 744 Beautiful Uses for Bacon Rick Bakas, the Director of Social Media Marketing at St. Supery Vineyards, [...]
We’re all embedded journalists now
July 6th, 2010
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Not an actual war “We’re all embedded journalists now.” -Me, about 18 minutes ago I was thinking about how our overseas “work” during the Global War on Terror came home, as it were, to our televisions with the placement of embedded journalists. These were newspeople who climbed into tanks and ran through the mountains of [...]
Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding
June 24th, 2010
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My friends over at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs have put together a sweet project called Bridging Babel: New Social Media and Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding. I got hooked up with the project at the Interfaith Youth Core‘s conference last October. I was presenting a workshop on social web tools and [...]
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