Go Geeks: Mark Horvath Wins $50K
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Posted in Internet, Society | 3 Comments »So homeless advocate Mark Horvath won the SXSW Pepsi Challenge. I stayed up until midnight on Monday night sending out tweets, bugging people to tweet and watching the parade of #RefreshGary hashtags come in. We went to sleep pretty sure ...
Geeks Doing Good: Help Mark Horvath Win $50,000
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »The SXSW Interactive Festival is going on this weekend in Austin, Texas. It's a bigtime collection of web geeks (and yes, I so wish I could be there). The cool thing about web geeks is that they care about causes. ...
One More E-mail Newsletter Plug
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »OK, one more e-mail newsletter plug. I just set up a fancy new e-mail newsletter (using MailChimp!) and you can subscribe here. Why should you sign up? Good question. 1) I'm a firm believer that e-mail newsletters should offer something valuable. At ...
Why Haiti Matters: Compassion by Connection
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »As the Haiti earthquake has come and gone I still find myself transfixed by the coverage. Short bursts of 140 characters, video clips, pictures, news articles. As stories come in it's hard to ignore. And it's not the bird's eye ...
I Have an E-mail Newsletter?
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »I've been toying with this idea for a while, but I finally got it together and started an e-mail newsletter. You can subscribe here! I plan to send infrequent updates about some of my crazy projects. I promise you won't ...
My Blogging Highlights from 2009
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »I'm a little bit slow with the 2009 recap, but it's always fun to look back on the year and remember what happened. Here are a few highlights from 2009: Philosophy of Profanity - I shared my philosophy of profanity, something ...
11 Years Ago Today
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »Eleven years ago today on Dec. 5, 1998 I started blogging. Last year I celebrated the one-decade milestone by releasing the first book I ever wrote: Mike, The Cat. Seems worth pointing to again. Check it out. It's always fun reminiscing ...
Twitter Tip: Context in Responses
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Internet | 6 Comments »Here's a quick Twitter tip for you: Give context in your @replies and DMs. "Yeah, that's so true," means nothing to me. I have no idea what you're responding to. You could be reacting to any of the 8.4 tweets I ...
Now That’s Funny: Christian Chirp
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in God, Church & Stuff, Internet | 6 Comments »If you haven't heard about it yet, Christian Chirp is a new Christian alternative to Twitter. In and of itself, that's funny. I'll let you revel in it. Now go look at the site. It's down right now because of a ...
Craigslist Tip: Be Helpful
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Posted in Internet | No Comments »Craigslist is one of the incredible success stories of the web. And they do it by thumbing their nose at conventional wisdom. They don't care about stunning design, complicated systems or making more money. Craigslist is all about functionality. If ...
