Ten Bucks
It doesn’t matter if you’re a one-person shop or a multi-billion dollar company, there’s one facet of the Web that puts us all on parity: for ten bucks you can buy your own domain. You can have a...
View ArticleHow to Kill Patients and Get Away With It
The feeling of moral responsibility is inversely proportional to the distance between the moral agent and the point of responsibility. The closer the point of responsibility, the greater the feeling of...
View ArticleLove: Through Sadness and Happiness
If love never made you happy, it wouldn’t be love. If love never made you sad, it wouldn’t be love. Being happy is being connected with something beyond yourself. So is being sad. Both are two sides...
View ArticleCarpet Bombing Twitter with Hashtags
And now an important message on the overuse of hashtags on Twitter: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCHGb4EmHU] Let’s not destroy something that was originally designed to help friends easily...
View ArticleMission Statements in the Age of Social Media
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcTG5G52FE] More on this video over on Health Is Social. @PhilBaumann
View ArticleWhat Social Media Wants
Kevin Kelly wants us to undertand what he calls the “technium” and outlines his life’s work in What Technology Wants. I’d like to riff on the way Kelly uses the word “want” with respect to Social...
View ArticleAre Social Media Phony By Default?
“The world will be better if you share more.” That’s what Mark Zuckerberg claims. And it’s part of a general philosophy of many fans of social media: that they help us to be more “social”, friendlier,...
View ArticleCyborg Economy: When Proletariat and Capitalist Fuse
One of the main features of economies over the last four or five centuries has been the separation between labor and capital. That is – because of technological conditions – the means of production had...
View ArticleReading Books With My Son
My son has always loved books. They were among his first objects his eyes fascinated and focused on. He’s learning to read right now and his love of books remains as strong as it was in his infancy....
View ArticleGimme News I Don’t Wanna Hear
Are personalized news services a good thing for democracy? Yes, they’re convenient – and definitely offer advantages. But if we overdo them, what do we lose? What – or whom – do we give up. If all we...
View ArticleA Story in the Form of a Question
When you step back and look at all the stuff involved in online business – the analytics, the content antics, the testing, the back-and-forth, trying to get a pulse on attribution management, finding...
View ArticleThe Internet Is Where Things Go To Die
The Internet is where things go to die. Master resurrection.
View ArticleLessons Learned from Grief
It hurts more the longer you postpone it. That impulse to go ape-shit for a few minutes? Go with it. Don’t expect lights to turn on suddenly. Sit with the dark. Befriend it. Hemingway was right. Fall...
View ArticleFacebook Is Not Your Story
Your life is a story. It’s a wild kind of story – not only are you the author, but nature is the author; other people are authors; loss and love are authors; hate and greed and war are authors; grace...
View ArticleThe Straining Edges
There are people in and around your world who will teach you, who will defeat you, who will pick on you, betray you, lock you up in dark places, slander you… and love you. It doesn’t matter if any of...
View ArticleSteven Paul Jobs
“Was”. I went to Wikipedia tonight to look up Steve Jobs’ birthday to write this post. I got to the word “was” and cried. That’s all I can write. It’s all I need to write. Thank you, Steven Paul Jobs....
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Favela Tweets
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/26908424"] Favela Tweets Over the hill, the priest weeps. Under the bridge, the foreman dies. At the station, the lover leaves. The millions march...
View ArticleDemocracy Depends…
…on Reason. Social Media propagates Emotion faster than Reason. This is the 21st Century problem. Democracy depends on Reason. Social Media propagates Emotion faster than Reason. This will be the 21st...
View ArticleTwitter Chats – Experiences, Value Propositions, Tips and Tricks
Over the last few years, the premise of the Twitter chat has gone from being perceived as an obscure and useless project to one of the fastest-growing ways to rally around ideas, share experiences and...
View ArticleDomestic Violence: The Largest Public Relations Opportunity of All Time
[NOTE: If you a victim of Domestic Violence, click here.] I wish there were a huge philanthropy organization focused on Domestic Violence. DV is as much a killer as is cancer or diabetes or sepsis....
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