Being around so many talented professionals in the online space allows me to see what’s coming down the pike sooner than the average bear. I’ve been exposed to some projects that can only leave me optimistic for what the future has in store since working for Rackspace Hosting.
2009 was the year Iranians stood up [...]

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I caught this video of a BART police officer slamming a drunk man’s face into a window from Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Twitter feed:

While I understand that police work is extremely stressful and often requires officers to make life and death situations that I will rarely make in my lifetime, this looks like a scene from a [...]

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I’m reading a book called The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley. I found it on Trey Ratcliff’s book list, which is quite good and I recommend highly.
The book features a perfect study to point out when someone says “Why should I waste my time with Twitter [...]

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When we think of the poster child for social media, we think of Zappos. The online department store (yes, it’s beyond shoes) puts all of their employees on Twitter and openly shows off its culture online. Apparently it paid off, because it caught the attention of Jeff Bezos of Amazon, who bought Zappos [...]

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Real time web. Mention it at a tech function and you will all of a sudden sound smarter. A lot of people are talking about the real time web happening, but few are mentioning what it will do when it’s in full force.
The real time web in Twitter search and whatever [...]

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Today, Facebook acquired the social network aggregator FriendFeed. Some people on Twitter didn’t understand why I cared. Here’s why:
I have done everything I can to make social networks “user friendly” and mainstream. I don’t WANT tweetups to be cliquish and I have never tried to exclude my circle to just people who [...]

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Apparently Jeremiah Owyang, Mark Cuban, and Jason Cohen have all sacrificed their health for the sake of their business. I too understand this. At one point, I was doing so much working and blogging, I checked in to a doctor to see if there was any medical reason behind my exhaustion. Turns [...]

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I don’t know how Scoble does it. He follows over 103,000 people on Twitter and somehow manages to filter everything out to actually break news. I know he’s a big fan of using FriendFeed to filter through it all, but come on! How does FriendFeed help you break the news of a [...]

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As cool as the concept is of new media, there are still some really great shows on old media. As of late, I have been fascinated by the NBC Show “Heroes”. A little late to the game I know, but hey, it’s better late than never.

On “Heroes”, there is a psychopathic killer named [...]

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Yesterday I went to an Austin Social Media Club meeting entitled “Old Media Rises from the Grave”. While I must admit that the vast expense of print and TV production will inevitably push them to a web-based platform, this hasn’t happened yet. TV still pummels online content in terms of sheer influence. [...]

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