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Stop Calling It What It Is Not

Mar. 17, 2010

You can substitute _____ for the pronoun, it, but I want to focus on the four-letter acronym referred by numerous bloggers this week as SxSW — or South by Southwest, an annual smörgåsbord of sound, sight, and sensory overload that occurs every March in Austin, Texas. It’s an event where the who’s who of music, [...]

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Living a Cellphone-Free Life: Could You Do It?

Mar. 15, 2010

I bought my first cellphone in 2000. It had a red face plate and was powered by Verizon Wireless.
Ten years later, I’m still with the cellular provider — and on my fifth or sixth iteration, the latest being a BlackBerry Curve 8330. It’s more than a phone; I use it for its web browser and [...]

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TV vs the Web: Who Wins This Super Bowl?

Feb. 8, 2010

Today’s newspapers and internet headlines scream the score of last night’s game and point me to repositories of the advertisements to watch. Considering I didn’t follow pro football all season, why be an ignoramus and pay attention at the final hour? No thanks, not my style. I spent the day out of town instead and [...]

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Ajay Bhatt is Not Your Typical Rockstar — and Nor Are You

Jan. 28, 2010

I watched this online video moments ago and cracked up in laughter.

Ajay Bhatt is not your typical rockstar for the reasons illustrated therein.
But you are not Ajay. You are someone else. Why aren’t you a rockstar? (Or are you?) Why aren’t more people asking you for YOUR autograph? Why don’t pretty women orgasm when YOU [...]

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Haiti and Social Media: How They Merge

Jan. 15, 2010

This is not a blog post about why it is important to donate money and knowledge to help the hundreds of thousands of dead Haitians nor is this about what’s happening on the ground every second of every day. No. This is a blog post about Haiti and social media, a look at how the [...]

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Something Wonderful

Jan. 1, 2010

I met someone at a New Years Eve party last night. R is a successful businesswoman who, because of her job, does not want prospective clients to search the web in advance of meeting with her. It’s not that she has cobwebs to be found, but she would rather meet with a client like a [...]

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