Month: January 2008

  • Relationship in the Internet World

    I have a friend. Up until about a month ago, I only knew him as shashib. I didn’t know much about shashib, except what I observed about him on Twitter. As I observed shashib and interacted with him, I realized he was from the DC metropolitan area and that he was in social media. We…

  • 10 More Rules For Dealing With Snow

    Since it’s a snow day here in Maryland and on much of the east coast, I thought I’d revisit 10 Rules for Dealing with Snow. Unfortunately, since I wrote that educational post several years ago, it’s apparent that people still don’t get it. So let’s add 10 more rules for dealing with snow. I don’t…

  • Eight Things

    I’ve been tagged for this meme by Doug Haslam and Geoff Livingston (what’s with all you PR people?). I don’t typically participate in memes as I think it generally dilutes the quality of the body of content, but I’m making an exception this time. If for no other reason, I’ll stop getting tagged by PR…

  • Something is in the Air

    Macworld Expo is this week and, true to Apple form, they pulled it off perfectly. Complete with bait and switch. On Monday, there was a “supposed” leak of Steve Jobs’ keynote and many people fell for it. Notably, Steve Rubel (who has a history of being reactionary and wrong), called it reliable because it was…

  • Portabilidad de Datos: Ilusión o Realidad

    El Data Portability Workgroup (o Grupo de Trabajo sobre Portabilidad de Datos) fue creado por un grupo de profesionales de Internet para intentar definir unas reglas que permitan a cada usuario tener mayor control sobre sus datos personales y mayor libertad de transportar y utilizar esos datos. El problema actual es que nuestro mapa social…

  • The DCTwits Twitter Group

    Real quick post here to let you know about the DC Twits Twitter user group. I set this up this weekend (first foray into Twitter API and it wasn’t too hard) for people in the Washington, D.C. metro area who want to subscribe. That doesn’t preclude anyone else from participating – for instance Brian Layman…

  • La Intersección de los Círculos Sociales

    ¿Quiénes están incluidos en tus networks sociales? ¿Que criterio utilizas para incluirlos? El tema se puede poner de lo mas controversial. Hay personas cuya meta es tener la mayor cantidad de “amigos” en Facebook, por ejemplo. Otros hacen un esfuerzo por limitar su exposición en estos networks. Si la utilidad de un network social depende…

  • Pachelbel

    I found this via Facebook. One of my friends sent this to me and I laughed so hard I watched it 3 times in a row. See, if you’re a musician as I am, you know that music is just a bunch of patterns. It’s mathematical, really. So it’s not all that unusual for “progressions”…

  • District of Corruption

    Hey everyone, I want to invite you to listen in (and take part with your phone calls, emails, etc) tomorrow and every Tuesday at 4pm EST. Geoff Livingston and I are hosting a live show on Blog Talk Radio called “District of Corruption”. Yes, we are going to be irreverently looking at social media and…

  • Brian Billick Fired: Priceless

    It was a long time in coming here in Baltimore, and this video is about a week late. However, I’ve taken some time to edit together this video showing how Billick’s firing from the Baltimore Ravens is, indeed, priceless.