Do you hate commercials? So do I, and so do your potential customers. That’s why I’m attending Got Social Media? in Houston on January 24th. Technology allows marketers such as myself to communicate more closely to our audiences than ever before. “Got Social Media?” covers topics such as buzz marketing, web 3.0, designing for the [...]

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In honor of all of the goofy women who go bonkers for a flatscreen TV on Oprah’s Favorite Things, I am compiling a list of my favorite sites for 2007. These aren’t my favorite sites per se; they are just cool ones I found this year. Please fight the urge to feel ungrateful that some [...]

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OK, so I don’t have the greatest taste in men… Hopefully you all had a restful and rewarding holiday break. I’m looking forward to 2008!

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I read a Duncan Riley article in Techcrunch that well regarded blogger Susan Reynolds is undergoing surgery today for breast cancer. Although I am not familiar with Susan or her blog, I remember what it was like to go through my own sister’s cancer experience and I wish her and her family the best during [...]

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Yesterday I met with the folks in my WordPress Meetup group as well as some folks at Refresh for a couple of beers on the Gingerman patio. Although I think the birds hanging out at Gingerman eat too much leftover Roppolo’s pizza, The company of other web professionals was much appreciated. Do you blog, code, [...]

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The Senate just passed a bill that will require all vehicle makes to average 35 miles to the gallon by 2020. U.S. automakers in traditional fashion are opposed to the bill. Chrysler put the cost of meeting these standards at $6700 per vehicle. The question is, should we care? Let’s do the math. According to [...]

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Ok, so this isn’t my logo and I might end up having to take it down because the people at Microsoft paid someone to create it. I still challenge any designer (you know who you are) to either create a sweet template for my blog or at least pick out a sweet template for WordPress. [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg is five years younger than me and is a billionaire on paper. A billionaire because he helps a bunch of kids throw their pictures to their friends. Marketers go gaga with the prospects of hocking all the latest goodies at the young ones. These young ones will only get older, but I can’t [...]

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Will Ferrell is an online video freak, and posted a site of his favorite videos with all his friends: http://www.funnyordie.com Hopefully this is not too good, because then I will deteriorate into a lazy pile of mush sitting in front of a computer screen. Apparently, Ferrell is teaming with guys like Dimitri Martin on a [...]

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I went to a great event on Saturday called the 2007 Ho Ho Ho Pub Crawl. There were more Dirty Santas, Disco Santas, Pimp Santas and elves than you could shake a stick at and it all started from a friend of a friend of mine’s simple evite. For those of you who missed the [...]

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