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Is Faster Better? Or is it Just Faster?

After last night’s news about Michael Jackson’s passing, everyone is once again praising the speed of the internet, blogs, and Twitter for trumping traditional media in delivering the news. Gossip site TMZ broke the news and it swirled around Twitter for hours before CNN would even confirm the story themselves. But was this another example [...]

Why Facebook is Failing Me

Don’t get me wrong, I love Facebook as much as the next guy, but lately I can’t help but feel like it’s not living up to my needs. The problem? I want to use Facebook both professionally and personally. I want my one Facebook account to serve both my “real life” friends and those [...]

Managing My Hyper-Connectivity

Like most of you, I’d consider myself a technology addict. As Charlie recently noticed, I blog a lot yet somehow find myself immersed in social media a good bit too. Keeping up is a challenge, and I’ll admit that finding balance is a constant challenge. As I wrote today on ReadWriteWeb, technology really is [...]

Does New Media “Journalism” Have Standards?

Opinion: I butted my way into a Twitter exchange today between two respected journalists, Mathew Ingram and Kara Swisher. Apparently Ms. Swisher didn’t think Mathew should have spread the tweet gossip about Steve Jobs’ heart attack considering that he hadn’t fact-checked the story for accuracy.

Mathew, on the other hand, disagreed:

While I have nothing but [...]

Blogorlando Wrap-Up

I had an amazing time at Blogorlando this weekend. Having never been to an “unconference” before, I didn’t know what to expect. I thought that it would be more like roundtable discussions, but I was surprised how prepared and professional the presentations were.
The sessions I attended were great. Even when I ventured out [...]

Interview on Blogging Tips

I just wanted to send a quick thank you to Kevin Muldoon who thought it would be fun to interview me for Blogging Tips – it was fun! 
After Kevin read about my pre-problogging background here, he thought that my journey from office I.T. drone to full-time blogger would be of interest to his [...]

And We’re Back…Sorta

If you follow my blog via RSS or email and had wondered what had happened to my site, then you must have missed the story I documented via Twitter and FriendFeed last week. The shortest explanation is that my dear ol’ dad accidentally killed my website, but the longer story involves a tale of [...]

So…I’m Going to DEMO

Note: This is a personal update. For those of you who read this blog solely for info about new web apps, you can skip this post.
Since Marshall will be getting married in September (congrats!), I will be going to this year’s DEMO conference as ReadWriteWeb’s representative. I have just one thing to say: Sweet! [...]

Being Productive on Facebook

Let’s just say…thank goodness I didn’t go into podcasting…

Recent Posts on RWW

Get caught up with some of my latest posts from ReadWriteWeb:
I.T. 2.0: How Changing Technology is Having Big Impacts on Business
In case you haven’t heard yet – the I.T. world is changing. The rise of social computing technologies, generally branded as "Web 2.0" and including things like wikis, blogs, social networking, RSS, and more [...]