Sometimes the Big Ideas Are Closer Than You Think
As I was perusing the November 2011 issue of Popular Mechanics (via the Zinio app on my iPad, of course), I came across a brief item about the British Antarctic Survey and the discovery of some active...
View ArticleWe Met Online
Although I’m a proponent of social media, I don’t believe that communicating online replaces real world interaction. That’s why it was nice to finally meet Dan York in person last weekend. It...
View ArticleComputers and the Stock Market
I love what computers can do for our society. I’m a huge fan of using algorithms to predict behavior and save humans time and money. I have loved the stock market since I was a little kid. The fact...
View ArticleI Wish I Really Could Watch TV Anywhere
Last night I ended up at the bar of a mass production restaurant in Broomfield, CO eating unhealthy food of marginal quality while drinking club soda with some of the saddest looking pieces of lime I...
View ArticleGlue-ing Together the Cloud, API’s, and More
I spent the past couple of days in some pretty lofty atmosphere. Not just because I found myself in the Mile High City, but because Eric Norlin put together another fantastic conference. Glue 2011...
View ArticleSurfing Back in Time
I had a conversation yesterday that spurred me to think back to the “old days” of the World Wide Web. You see, I’ve been at this game long enough to remember Yahoo before it was at Yahoo.com. Most of...
View ArticleProducts that Sell and Products that Work
The other day I found myself telling someone that a company I know of has “a product that demos well, but it doesn’t work well once you buy it.” We all know the type, right? At the extreme end are some...
View ArticleThe Web Platform Fallacy
In recent years, we have heard much talk of services like Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce and others being “platforms.” The implication is that they are much like operating systems like Windows, Linux,...
View ArticleComputer, Take the Wheel
For many, the ability to drive represents a key milestone of freedom in America. The ability to grab the steering wheel and take your car across town or even across the country has been idealized as...
View ArticleThe Web Makes Disruption Easy and Customers Fickle
I have been a devoted user of the Thesis framework for WordPress for some time now. I have purchased licenses to use their software for myself and my clients. In fact, this site is built on Thesis, as...
View ArticleWe Met Online
Although I’m a proponent of social media, I don’t believe that communicating online replaces real world interaction. That’s why it was nice to finally meet Dan York in person last weekend. It...
View ArticleComputers and the Stock Market
I love what computers can do for our society. I’m a huge fan of using algorithms to predict behavior and save humans time and money. I have loved the stock market since I was a little kid. The fact...
View ArticleDon’t Replicate Human Intelligence, Augment It
Why must we always make the perfect the enemy of the good? The drive for Artificial Intelligence to solve a world of problems for communicators will likely result in failure—at least for the...
View ArticleAre you a domain hoarder?
I constantly receive emails from GoDaddy. Part of that is because they are one of the most persistent emailers of all time, but part of that is because I own a lot of domains. Many of these domains are...
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