Groupon.com is running this crazy contest to find someone who is willing to live off of nothing but their coupon/gift certificates for a year. I thought it sounded really cool and decided to enter, which involved making two YouTube videos, writing an essay and a blog post, and of course being “eccentric” enough to actually [...]
A couple of weeks ago, David Allen and I had a nice conversation on Skype that turned into this Mac 20 Questions podcast. Have a listen (if you want to hear me talk for an hour):
Last month, I attended the first MegaTweetup at the N.E.R.D. Center in Cambridge, MA. At the event, I decided to “torture test” my new Sennheiser MKE 400 Shotgun Microphone ($200) in a loud environment. The microphone was mounted in the hot shoe of my Canon 7D, plugged into the built-in input. Here are the results: [...]
I received a voicemail at 2:23 PM today (November 3, 2009 — election day) encouraging me to vote for Tom Menino for mayor of Boston. Not unusual on election day, right? Right, except that it asked me to vote tomorrow, not today. I don’t know if this is a case of computer/operator error or a [...]
I spent last week in Baltimore at the Society for Scholarly Publishing‘s Annual Meeting. The keynote speaker was Adam Bly, Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Seed Media Group. I thought his speech was excellent, and other attendees thought so as well. Here’s a video I made of a few reactions from the audience:
I’m giving a “Social Media and You” talk to a Women in Business group in Waltham, MA this evening, and to save paper and keep people focused, I don’t want to use a handout. Instead, I’ll provide a few links here (as well as providing a reason for them to visit my site — there’s [...]
“Just find some high school kid.” Do you hear that as often as I do? Somebody wants a blog, they need a Facebook page, or they’re looking for help picking out a new gadget. Almost invariably (if the conversation’s participants were born before 1970 or so), somebody will say “Just find some high school kid [...]
Lately, I’ve been talking to a lot of people who have yet to jump on the social media bandwagon. They aren’t necessarily technophobic, they just have other things to focus on in their business or their lives. Because of what I do, these people tend to ask me “What is all of this online stuff [...]
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