Communication
What Should Your Profile Say About You?
Earlier this evening, I noticed several people asking MySpace Vice President of Marketing Sean Percival to rate their profile on Twitter. At first, I snorted rather snidely at some of his answers. He handed out very low “grades” to people whom I thought had pretty nifty taglines in their “about” section. Giving Mr. Percival the [...]
Are Journalists Biased?
Everyone who is anyone in the blogosphere has read the stories about Mike Arrington and his investment policy update. We’ve read hundreds of offshoot posts and Tweets, all of which point fingers and take sides. You’ve seen the articles proclaiming that the author would never, EVER! allow themselves to be compromised or biased in any [...]
What Would Life be Like Without Social Networking?
Someone asked me this earlier on Twitter. You would think it would be simple one to answer. After all, social networking is still in its infancy, right? Wrong! Social networks have been around since before the Internet was actually – well – the Internet. Stop thinking that these words only encompass sites such as Facebook [...]
Is Email Becoming Obsolete?
Email is one of the oldest and most iconic initial components of what the world came to know as the Internet. While email is believed to have been around in one form or another since around 1965, when multiple users of a time-sharing mainframe computer needed an easy way to communicate, there is no question [...]
Stop Doing Follow Friday Wrong
Only two hours into the day on the East coast, the #FF Tweets are already flowing through my stream. I tend to not pay much attention to these, as they seem to be the same every single week. It’s not that I don’t want to find new people to talk to – I do! But [...]
Jealousy Will Eat You Alive
No matter what line of work you choose, there will always be someone who does it better than you. You will find more prolific writers, smarter code monkeys and better designers. Finding someone to look up to is good, as is a little healthy competition. Jealousy, however, can eat you alive – even online – [...]
How to Communicate With Others
When was the last time you actually made a phone call for no other reason than to simply talk to someone? How long ago was it that you sat down and wrote a letter to send through the postal service? These forms of communication were the way we connected with others for many MANY years, [...]
Should You Spy on Your Child?
Last night, I wrote a post discussing a proposed bill in California. This legalese, in short, wants to force social sites to remove information and content of minors at the request of parents. There are several loopholes in this proposed legislation. I worked hard to come up with as many of them as possible in [...]
Who Controls Your Child on Facebook?
I hadn’t heard about the proposed SB 242 bill in California until reading about it on TechCrunch a few moments ago. As I quickly ran through the article, I prepared myself to see a whole lot of angry comments at the end. I wasn’t disappointed… people are angry. However, every single commenter is missing the [...]
Stop Promoting Yourself
All of us in the blogosphere have one common goal: to see and be seen. We need to get our names and links out there in order to make it in this cutthroat world. Somehow, we have to find a way to stand out in an ever-growing crowd of writers. The problem is that many [...]
Will AT&T Pay a Break Up Fee to T-Mobile?
According to a news item making the rounds this morning, AT&T may well be on the hook to the tune of 6 billion bucks if the proposed merger with T-Mobile isn’t approved by the FCC. If the feds refuse to allow the $39 billion deal to go through, AT&T will pay out $3 billion in [...]
Derek Miller, Cancer and The End Game
This is a guest post written by my Community Manager Kat. Derek was a friend of mine for about six years, and his loss leaves a large hole in my heart and within the Gnomedex community. On the morning of May 4th, 2011, I read fourteen words that stopped me in my tracks. Though I [...]
Is Internet Addiction Real?
A few hours ago, Duodave posted an an interesting discussion on our LockerGnome Q&A site. He wonders if online addictions are real or something made up by professionals. I’m here to tell you that Internet addiction is very real. It can cause your health, relationships and work performance to deteriorate if you don’t realize you [...]
How to Put an End to Racism
This is definitely not something I normally discuss on my blog, but I felt very strongly that I had to write this story tonight. I’m not breaking any big news stories when I remind you that racism is rampant in this country – we all know it. The level of discrimination and hatred against people [...]
How Important is Social Networking?
If you were to take time completely away from the Internet, would you really miss out on anything? The mere thought of not keeping a constant eye on your Twitter stream or Facebook wall may give you the shakes, but what exactly is it that might go unnoticed? The world isn’t going to end if [...]
