From time to time, I have kept on eye on spam activity and viral content that turned out to be spam (or at least commercial). Someone entered an item in the comments on this blog and when I checked it out, it seems spammy to me. I post this item to shine a light. The [...]
WebbyConnect: The Future is Calling
Last Thursday, during the WebbyConnect conference, there was a panel entitled “Hear, See Everything (Except This)” with Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr, and Shawn Gold, Head of Marketing & Content Development for MySpace. The general topic was the issue of privacy in the age of social networking. But it popped to mind because of [...]
Headlines I Never Expected to See
From Billboard: Bob Marley Ringtone Dispute Heating Up Tags: Bob Marley, ringtones
What YouTube Is Really Good For
Yes, there’s a lot of cool stuff on YouTube. Some of it is illegal, posted by people who don’t hold the copyright. Some of it is amateur; much of that stuff is boring. But there is much that is interesting. Here’s one example of how YouTube excels: Crank Dat videos. Here’s the background. Hip-hop artist [...]
Mister Lee Mouths Off
In the past, I have written about Lee Siegel of The New Republic, such as when he got caught playing at sockpuppetry. (To be clear, a sock puppet is a false online identity, typically set up to praise oneself and attack one’s critics.) In today’s NY Times, there is an article on sockpuppetry. It focuses [...]
Choose Your Revolution
I have no idea what this means, but I’m going to throw it out there in case anyone can lend any insight. You head to ChooseYourRevolution.com. You read a little short story, written in the first person, about a dreamer and philosophical rebel who wants to change the world for the better: My first attempt [...]
Another Higgins Tribute
You may recall the flood of material back in November and December of last year related to the death of John M. Higgins. Now, Aaron Barnhart, TV critic at the K.C. Star and curator of TV Barn, offered his tribute to Higgins this week, in the course of reporting on the CBS upfront presentation. It [...]
Riding the Pushmi-Pullyu
One of the controversies surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings was the package that Cho sent to NBC. It included video of him ranting and posing; NBC aired it and then other news outlets re-aired it, branded with NBC’s ID. A negative reaction quickly followed and the media scaled back on its use. A debate ensued [...]
In which I get myself in trouble…
Here’s just another brief glimpse into my life and how I run my mouth (see previous example here). I work in an office. I’ll sit in a meeting listening quietly — perhaps engaged fully, perhaps at half-speed, because not everything is pertinent to my job. But then someone refers to KC & The Sunshine Band [...]
My other blog is Movable Type
As if I didn’t have enough trouble feeding words into this thing, I have agreed to write a regular column for Spot-on, run by my friend Chris Nolan. It’s interesting, because Spot-on is a family of bloggers, who cover various topics from locations around the world, and yet it’s (intentionally) a lot like a stable [...]