Are Journalists Biased?

May 24, 2011 | 6 Comments

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 [...]

Guy Kawasaki Wants You to be Enchanted

Mar 23, 2011 | 3 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Guy Kawasaki is the original technology evangelist. After championing Apple products from the inside, Guy has gone on to a career that recently includes co-founding Alltop and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He was also a featured speaker at Gnomedex [...]

Disclosure and Compliance Made Easy

Apr 13, 2010 | One Comment

On December 1, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission began requiring bloggers and social media gurus to make full disclosure statements. This was done to “protect consumers from potentially misleading information.” Many of us in the blogosphere had been doing this for quite some time, as we believe in transparency. I know that I personally have [...]

What You Say Will Come Back to Haunt You

Jan 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

I’ve talked many times before about the dangers of saying the wrong thing online. Things that you say on the Internet can – and WILL eventually – come back to bite you in the ass. A sad trend I’ve seen lately is the number of people who tweet while they are inebriated. Sure, they may [...]

Is Your Head – or Your Computer – in the Cloud?

Oct 26, 2009 | 2 Comments

Everywhere you turn, there’s someone talking about Cloud Computing lately. Let’s face it – it’s a hot concept. However, there is a large difference of opinion as to what Cloud Computing even means, much as there is with “Web 2.0″. To some, Cloud Computing is simply another term for virtually anything you do on the [...]

Web Communities and Social Networks Need Transparency

May 5, 2008 | 61 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I need you all to think about your answer to this question I received in an email: “What would be the one fundamental principle every social networking community must have for maintaining its integrity to the people who are using that [...]