June 04, 2009
I’ve been an avid Twitter fan for nearly a year now, and I’ve tried so many different clients with so many different features it’s sometimes hard to keep track. But one that I recently discovered that really encapsulates the spirit of the platform is Twikini, a Twitter client for Windows
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I Know The Value of A Dollar, But What About A Phone Call?
Today, Google announced its new web-based (of course) platform for communicating and collaborating in real time, Wave. Upon first glance, this might be just the Outlook-killer that Google has been preparing to launch since they launched Gmail and Calendar, and more recently juiced both apps up with Tasks. Now that
Read MoreOther Blogs I Like 2: Electric Boogaloo
Okay, okay, it’s been way, way, way, way, way too long since I last posted, I know. But I’m back now, I’ve been to China for two weeks, I have a new job and a new apartment, so there’s a lot to talk about here, aside from the typical journalistic
Read MoreOther Blogs I Like
This is just a quick post to give shout-outs to some other people blogging out there who I find humorous, enlightening, entertaining or just downright silly. Logic + Emotion by David Armano David Armano is the VP of Experience Design at Critical Mass, the digital advertising agency I had the
Read MoreThe Radish Part 2: Journalist Knowingly Submits Awful Peice of Crap
Journalist and man-about-town Stephen Moss was in quite a smug mood yesterday after knowingly submitting what is clearly the most pandering and unmitigated piece of garbage in his twenty-five-year-long career. Moss, a Carleton graduate and reporter for the Hawthorn Daily Corn Husker and News, has become known for his well-researched,
Read MoreThe Radish Part 1: Woman Kills All Emotion Online
This is part one of a series of posts – I am sharing a collection of articles I wrote last year for a fake newspaper entitled The Radish. Consider it my homage to The Onion. First up: a woman kills all emotion online. Online chatting became a meaningless, emotionless void
Read MoreCoppeneur and the Fine Art of Chocolate Tasting
Christmas is coming up, and I have been thinking about what to buy my parents and other relatives. While probing the web for ideas, I came across the North American arm of a fine chocolate maker based out of Germany called Coppeneur. Before I give some of this stuff away
Read MoreFeist: The Oblivious Tribe Leader
I’ve been spending some time listening to the audiobook version of Tribes: We Need You To Lead by Seth Godin. In the book, Godin talks about how people inside organizations and around the world are all connected, and need to be connected by tribes. These tribes are the cirlces of
Read MoreBrands Belong to YOU
So, I’ve been working on some freelance stuff lately, doing website designs and copywriting while I wait for news to come about some more steady employment. Freelancing is fun because you can do it on your schedule and being your own boss has its own special perks (read: waking up
Read MoreThe Crux of Social Media
I think the real crux is in the demographics. It's no secret that the baby-boomer generation is largely not as experienced in the digital world as their successors. Pundits and marketers have even gone so far as to distinguish our current generations' "digital natives" - those who were born immersed
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