Remember when Google adopted “Don’t Be Evil” as its unofficial motto? You’ll find that little ditty at a yard sale next to a Bay City Rollers album and a skinny leather tie decorated like a piano. Because this week Google announced it was drastically changing its privacy policy and the side of sharing – and […]
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How Facebook Explains the (Online) World
September 23, 2011 
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Welcome to the Internet. It’s now called Facebook. This week Facebook made a series of announcements – a “life” timeline, streaming movies and music, doing rather than “liking” and the ability to group friends into categories just to name a few of the changes. Facebook has finally transformed itself into a customized and personalized replacement […]
Read more We are Living in the Age of Hyper Speed
July 6, 2011 0 Comments
Good luck keeping up. News, events and crises move like a flash of lightning. As a communicator or a marketer, you can find yourself neck-deep in trouble because you decided to walk to the sub shop next door to pick-up your lunch. Today’s case in point: Entenmann’s. The pastry maker published a tweet yesterday to […]
Read moreOne of the Culprits Might be Technology
April 5, 2011 0 Comments
A bigoted Christian pastor of a tiny fundamentalist church in Florida burns the Koran while noting that it burn “very good” and the flames could have cooked a burger or toasted a marshmallow. The pastor posts a video of the act on the Internet. The president of Pakistan calls it “serious set-back” in American relations […]
Read moreA Long Walk Through Tripoli
February 28, 2011 0 Comments
A rugged, crumbling wall surrounds the old city of Tripoli, Libya. The wall abuts the Corinthia Bab Africa, a luxury hotel with a beautiful view of blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The hotel was sparkling new and built to attract Westerns willing to do business with the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. And by […]
Read more Backlash Against Huffington Post Heats Up
February 10, 2011 6 Comments
Has the Huffington Post jumped the shark? The news this week that AOL bought the Huffington Post for $315 million has been met with outrage by many readers and, worse, by the hundreds, if not thousands of bloggers who contribute free content to the site. Comments on the Huffington Post’s announcement about the sale have […]
Read moreIt Must be True. I Read it on the Internet!
September 1, 2010 8 Comments
Here are a few things that I’ve learned on the Internet: President Obama was born in Kenya and is not an American citizen The Holocaust never happened. The Democrats tried to create “death panels” for the elderly in their health care overhaul bill The September 11 terrorist attacks were plotted and by the Bush administration […]
Read moreLive Dangerously, Go Online
April 20, 2010 0 Comments
Not long ago, I bought a new computer and gave my wife my the old one to use around the house. She used it primarily for email and online shopping. My wife isn’t very technical (the understatement of understatements). So when she kept getting bothered with pop-up reminders to update the computer’s security software, she […]
Read moreEmployers Are Checking Your Social Media Profile – Right Now
February 18, 2010 1 Comment
I have a colleague who is a conservative living in primarily liberal Massachusetts (yes, Scott Brown’s election didn’t change that fact). Like many professionals in this grueling economy, he’s currently between jobs. He’s networking, polishing his resume, and interviewing for what’s next for him. Recently, however, curious about his online profile, he “Googled” himself. A […]
Read moreWanted: Cyborg Journalists
September 30, 2009 27 Comments
Or robots. Because clearly the Washington Post wants to make sure its journalists don’t share a shred of their humanity with anyone. At least not on social networks. This seems to be the perspective of the Post leadership if you read their social media guidelines recently presented to its editorial staff. PaidContent.org managed to snag the […]
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