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Thoughts on Jason Calacanis and Walking Away From It All
Jason Calacanis, a colleague in blogging with whom I very much respect, announced last week his retirement from blogging. Many others around the way snickered and assumed it was a joke. I never thought it was a joke – mainly because I could sympathize with his sentiments. In his “retirement speech”, an overly dramatic event…
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Surprises
This is a guest post from Andrew Feinberg who is a journalist working in Washington, D.C. covering the technology policy discussions occurring on Capitol Hill. He works for Washington Internet Daily published by Warren News 6:30am – alarm 7:00am – stop ignoring the alarm 7:35am – dressed and out to subway 8:10am – arrive at…
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Perceptions
A friend of mine (in real life!) recently made a late night trip to a local diner to grab a bite to eat. He felt like ordering an omelette, but wasn’t sure which kind of omelette. As he looked at the menu, he noticed a Spanish Omelette and a Spinach Omelette. Unsure what was in…
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The Aaron Brazell Show: Episode 1 – Politics, Policy and Technology
Saturday night, I was joined by Leslie Bradshaw, Art Lindsey (who I started calling Al toward the end of the show, sorry Art!), Leslie Poston and Andrew Feinberg in an interesting discussion about policy and technology inside the beltway. Steve Hodson and S. Dawn Jones also joined in during the show. It was a fascinating…
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Don't Buy the Coming Hype – Apple Botched the iPhone Launch, Not the Carriers
Possibly the worst public relations nightmare in internet history occurred yesterday. Hardcore fans wanting to buy the new iPhone 3G camped out over night, and in some cases for days, to be the first to get their hands on the new, sexy, shiny device from their perfect company, Apple. What they got was unexpected. They…
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The Quest for Email Ninjahood: Consolidate Email
Before we got a little distracted by other things, we began a series on email ninjahood. Because email bandwidth continues to be a problem for many people with the ubiquity of Blackberries, smartphones and email anywhere you turn. The recommendations I’m offering in this series work for me but they may not work for everyone.…
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NPR Interview This Morning
NPR’s Laura Conway from the Bryant Park Project (syndicated on a dozen or so NPR affiliates between 7-9am ET) called me this morning for a brief chat about the Congress rules fiasco that I’ve been monitoring. Not only was this interview important for me personally (it’s NPR during the morning drivetime commute) but it’s very…
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Statement on House Rules and Social Media Use
Today, I’ve spent a significant amount of time working the story that broke yesterday and that we’ve been following closely. There seems to be some real bogus propaganda flying around this issue and I want to clarify the position I’ve stated repeatedly around the various places I’ve been discussing the issue. It’s reprehensible that in…
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The Quest for Email Ninjahood – I Admit That I Have a Problem
I’m beginning a short series here that, on one hand, I hope to use to educate and on the other hand I hope to expose myself and the flaws I have in how I deal with email. Email quite simply is a problem. Some people are blessed to have little email traffic so they squander…
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Getting Geeky on the Elite Tech News Show
For those of you with better things to do on a Sunday night (and let’s admit that is just about all of us), you probably missed the Elite Tech News show tonight. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins from Mashable invited me on to be a guest panelist with Steve Hodson, Louis Gray and the rest of the…