Bill Erickson sent me Kevin Kelly’s TED talk “Predicting the Next 5,000 Days of the Web”. Kelly discusses the semantic web, which uses relational data to make associations between site to site, profile to profile. The idea of a converging, thinking web is a fascinating concept. Kelly calls this thinking web “more […]

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I tend to like to be behind a camera instead of in front of it, but I felt that the issue of data portability was important enough to step up and lead a discussion at SocialMedia Camp.
The semantic web can fix the issue of data portability in social media. How? By using […]

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When I was growing up, I took every computer problem to my dad. Why? My dad liked computers to the point where I debating banning him from CompUSA. When I worked at Dell, I put together a $2000 computer for him and he bought a $3000 one. He liked helping me […]

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So I’m freelance, and I’m starting to line up clients but it’s going a little slow.
This DOES NOT mean that I am willing to give up free advice on social media, website architecture, SEO, SEM, copywriting, blogging or anything of that nature. I spent two years perfecting a layout to sell cars […]

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Jim Kukral recently wrote a rather entitled “The Death of the A-List”. The article by Jim Kukral, an online marketer, postulates that people are now seeing that Web 2.0 celebrities are just normal people who became very good at self-promotion. This will open the doors up to what Clay Shirky would call “everybody”. […]

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Jason Calacanis catches a lot of flack because he thinks SEO as a trade is dead and that social media is en vogue. While it is important to factor in SEO when creating websites, social networks are 1.) taking the power out of Google by providing searchers with other user-generated means for information and […]

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I am laying in bed at a the Rosemary Inn, a bed and breakfast in Pittsboro, NC. Although Pittsboro is not the tech hub that Austin or even the Triangle is, it is the home of OpenNMS, the open source network management software company I am consulting for.
Everybody raves about how cool Austin is. […]

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I read Hugh MacLeod’s (gapingvoid’s) post “10 things I hate about web 2.0″. This post got 35 comments, generally to the tune of “right on, Hugh”. Now I like Hugh, and that’s why I’m writing this sound piece of advice.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE INTERNET CELEBRITIES, STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO THEM.
Seriously, do you know […]

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Yesterday I went to Elaine Allan’s house to buy a couple of computer cords for the machines I’m giving to Burmese refugees. A lady named MuMu was over there. MuMu is a Burmese refugee who currently watches children for other Burmese people here in town. She speaks a little English, but is […]

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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, […]

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