I’m reading Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” Generally, I’d include a hyperlink to Carr’s book, but I’m not going to do so until the end of this blog post. Why? Because recent neurological studies cited in Carr’s fascinating book indicate that hyperlinks interrupt reading – and thus damage [...]
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Has the Web Ruined Vacations?
June 1, 2010
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Welcome back from Memorial Day weekend. But did you ever really leave? Did you resist checking your Blackberry or iPhone for email messages? Did you send any in return? Did you update your corporate blog? Or tweet about a work-related topic? Did you get a jump start on that presentation? Or even do some web-based [...]
Read moreStatus Updates Mean No More Alone Time
May 10, 2010
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There was a fascinating op-ed in the Boston Globe last week about how college students isolate themselves by hiding behind their mobile devices and social networks. The author, Charlotte Steinway, a senior at a local college, wrote: “But the tragic, isolating thing is that we reach for our devices because we don’t want to seem [...]
Read moreWhy I Don’t Use Foursquare
February 24, 2010
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Because I watched Will Smith’s “Enemy of the State” back in 1998. In the film, Smith plays a lawyer who accidentally becomes the target of a corrupt politician who runs a secret NSA operation. Smith tries to escape, but the NSA agents track him down using the latest in surveillance technology – from bugs in [...]
Read moreThat Buzzing Sound in Your Inbox
February 11, 2010
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Perhaps Google called it Buzz because that’s the sound of a chainsaw. The chainsaw you want to take to your Gmail Inbox. Google announced Google Buzz this week – a Twitter/FriendFeed hybrid that lives inside of Gmail. The advantage of Buzz is that it allows you to instantly connect to the people you already communicate [...]
Read moreGoodbye, 2000s
January 4, 2010
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I have a job that didn’t exist in 2000. I help clients to communicate and market on Internet platforms that weren’t invented 2000 (who could have really imagined the impact of Twitter in 2000?). The decade we’re about to leave behind (has it been that long already?) won’t go down in history has a very [...]
Read moreGoogle Dashboard – Inside Your Mind
November 13, 2009
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Google already knows I’m going to write this post. After all, they know everything else about me. And you. This week Google rolled out Dashboard – a feature that allows Google users to review all of their web, image, video, and news searches, all of the email they sent (if they use Gmail), all of [...]
Read moreWorlds Collide: Where Does Professional Stop & Personal Begin?
October 16, 2009
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Technology has done a lot of good, but one of the consequences of our hyper-connected, always on world has been the encroachment of work on personal time. Who among us hasn’t checked email on a vacation day? In fact, don’t most companies expect it? Who among us doesn’t have their Blackberries and iPhone in their [...]
Read moreShould Content Creators Boycott Aggregators?
August 17, 2009
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Are Google, Bing and Yahoo robbing content creators blind? Are services like All-Top enriching only themselves? Arnon Mishkin, a partner with the Mitchell Madison Group, makes a compelling argument in his article on PaidContent.org called “The Fallacy of the Link Economy” that aggregators drive neither traffic nor revenues to content creators. Mishkin says his research [...]
Read moreFacebook’s Really, Wicked Big Challenge
August 12, 2009
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Facebook’s biggest strength is also its greatest weakness. And it can be summed up in one word: Intimacy. Facebook is a place for personal connections. People share photographs of their children. They discuss vacations with friends. They share funny links or a music video. Most people know the people they befriend on Facebook. That’s why [...]
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