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Seven Things I Shouldn’t Need to Tell You about Social Media (1 – 3)
About a month ago I signed up with Twitter and I have to say that I’m totally addicted to it. I had wondered what anyone could possibly say in 140 characters or less; it turns out that with clever use...
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Seven Things I Shouldn’t Need to Tell You about Social Media (4 – 7)
On Monday I posted the first three of seven types of online behavior that seem so obviously wrong that nobody should need to be told not to do them. This morning I’m back with the other four. 4. Obey...
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“One Who Computes” or Googles or Tweets
About the same time I started this blog, I signed up for a Twitter account. I’d been resisting for a while, wondering what useful information can be conveyed by a medium that limits itself to 140...
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Slinging #Hashtags at the Virtual Diner
“If you build it he will come.” Hearing those words, the fictional Ray Kinsella (as opposed to the author of the same name) decided to build a baseball diamond in his corn field. His baseball heroes...
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Rubber Walls, Infinite Chairs
Think of a really good presentation you attended recently. What made it good? For me, the top criteria are an interesting speaker (or panel) and lots of relevant audience participation. There are lots...
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Taming the Firehose
I spent the New Year’s weekend at my Dad’s house, which these days is nostalgic in more ways than ever. Dad is a luddite and his house is a technology-free zone—no computer, no Internet access, no...
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Can You Pass a Turing Test?
In 1950 Alan Turing proposed a test to determine whether a machine (such as a computer) could overcome the limitations foreseen by Descartes in his Discourse on the Method: For we can certainly...
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Is Twitter a Virtual Soap Box or Town Hall?
I was one of those who delayed joining Twitter because I couldn’t quite figure out what it was about. 140 characters? That’s not enough to say anything, is it? After all, I’d sometimes found the 2,000...
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Needed: 21st Century Leaders for an Open World
On Thursday and Friday I attended some Social Media Week events in New York. It was an amazing experience—not just because of the great topics and smart speakers, but because we practiced what was...
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Under the Influence
I have always liked old buildings. On vacations I usually seek out old house museums. My home is almost a century old (the original part, anyway, which is only two rooms). I love that high-tech...
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