The Guy Kawasaki Bump
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »On Tuesday I picked a fight with marketing guru Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. I called him out on what I considered to be a questionable marketing practice and he engaged in a little debate. I blogged about it in order ...
You Can Change the World: Invisible People
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »Mark is unemployed, his home is in foreclosure and he's six weeks from homelessness. Again. Sixteen years ago Mark was homeless in Hollywood. And now on the brink of homeless again, Mark is telling the story of the homeless. Armed ...
I Picked a Fight with Guy Kawasaki
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Business & Marketing, Technology | 40 Comments »Last night I picked a fight with Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. For those who don't know, Kawasaki is a marketing genius, former brand evangelist for Apple and current venture capitalist. He's a big name. One of his current projects is ...
War of the Worlds on Twitter
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »You may not have noticed yesterday, but aliens rose up and crushed mankind before succumbing to the common cold and dying off. One person described the mayhem like this: "Smoking, smoldering hunks of buildings, cars, and people lay strewn about. The ...
Is Blogging Dead?
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in Blogging, Technology | 2 Comments »Last night I read a Wired magazine article about how Twitter, Facebook and Flickr have killed blogging. The article starts with this anti-blogging sentiment: "Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, ...
Why I Returned my Nintendo Wii
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 4 Comments »I owned a Nintendo Wii for less than 24 hours. For the uninformed, the Wii is Nintendo's latest game system that seems to engage the non-gamer by using motion sensing technology. Basically instead of pushing buttons, you move the entire ...
Twitter, Plurk, Bless You
Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »I've been using the mini-blog/messaging app Twitter a lot lately. You could say I'm addicted. I've also noticed that while Twitter has had problems in the past few weeks, lots of folks are checking out competitors like Plurk. I'm not ...
Lexi is a Photographer
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Children, Technology | 1 Comment »Lexi's grandparents gave her a digital camera for her birthday, so we set her up with a Flickr account. She's now a photographer. She loves to "take-ah pictures." While some pictures are complete blurs, others seem oddly artistic. She's also got ...
Better in Virtual Life
Friday, December 28th, 2007 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »I played Wii Bowling on Christmas Eve and bowled better than I do in real life (151 vs. 126/96). Now I'm wondering about the implications of being virtually better at something. I also gave Guitar Hero and try and learned that ...
Lappy is Back
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »I guess things can't be all bad today--I'm typing this on my revived laptop. You may remember that my laptop died 22 sad days ago and I set about repairing it myself, however ill-advised that may have been (let's just say ...
