I like Cake -- the food that's spawned a ton of TV shows and, more importantly, the band. I like Twitter too. So why did I take the Cake song "Going the Distance" and create this Twitter parody? If we can't laugh at ourselves, what's the point? Just be thankful...
Preparing for an upcoming presentation, I was considering the documentation vs. experience trend and its impact on consumer consumption habits. As Ricky Van Veen notes, people are more into recording the trip to Disney World than the trip itself. A socially-inclined, smartphone-toting park guest could check in on Foursquare, record...
The final stop on Day One of the #140conf found @jeffpulver and team in Cincinnati for a Sunday evening RoadTrip TweetUp. The attendees, the stories and the entire experience remind me that no social media platform can replicate the original social network – meeting live and in person. Putting faces...
With apologies to Edwin Starr, when did the word influence join the commoditized dictionary with experience, integrated, solutions and the like? Was it when the word was first used (incorrectly) as a synonym to popularity? I'm not sure. And I don't really care. But popularity is not the same as...
SXSWi is many things, including inspiration, participation and celebration. And then there's that unseemly underbelly of bullsh!t, blathering, broadcasting of self-importance and bad pr.And that's where we come in. Richard and I have split up to do twice as much damage, uh, justice in Austin this...
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