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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This whole concept of transparency in marketing is hilarious to me. It seems like the buzz word to use if you want to sell books or get paid to speak.
Let’s think about this: say I work for Hummer. This would be utterly ridiculous, because everyone knows I love BMWs and Porsches and feel […]

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Brian Smith from Downtown Cartel and I are drinking a few beers at Sara Dornsife’s posh pad right now. An amusing way to pass time? Coming up with pickup lines the way Yoda would say them. Does this make me a geek officially? Oh well. Here they are though:
1.) Tired […]

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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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The Yahoo stock price hit $20.50 a share today. Last week, Microsoft CFO Christopher Liddell said Thursday that Yahoo is a “declining asset” and that the chances of a full-on acquisition are now “negligible.”
This sucks.
It doesn’t suck that Microsoft is choosing not to acquire Yahoo. It sucks because Yahoo has an open source […]

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Twitter users are as unique as they come. Sometimes you’ll follow someone only to find out that this person tweets any time he or she eats a brownie or goes for a walk outside. Other Twitter users are pseudo politicos out to change the world. What unifies them all?
When they see you […]

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whuffie:
A slang term coined by Corey Doctorow in his book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom to describe reputation-based capital.
This is also described by Tara Hunt as “social capital” (i.e. cred that isn’t money).
At Volusion, I never felt like I could use my talent. I wasn’t writing with my voice. It’s […]

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This anti-Twitter stuff coming from House Democrats is absolutely ridiculous. This is a perfect example of politicians playing politics instead of actually acknowledging someone’s freedom of speech.
These politicians raise millions of dollars just to get a bunch of cheesy 30 second TV spots and conduct polls. Who the hell actually listens to […]

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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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