Happy Birthday, Google Android!

The rumor mill can take five, the Google cell phone, the Android  a.k.a. the T-Mobile G1 has launched. Released on the T-Mobile cellular system in the U.S. may cause a few connectivity issues (at least where I live). The feature set is nice for the basic phone, but it...

Newsrooms and Social Media

I spent nine years in radio as a reporter, on-air talent and program director. By nature, newsrooms are not the most social media friendly place in the world. Reporters and producers are the gatekeepers of the facts. While social media threatens the perceived balance...

“I kan haz web analitikz?” at Ignite Boston 4

It was great meeting so many of you at O’Reilly Ignite Boston 4 on September 11, 2008. Special thanks to the kind folks at  ICanHasCheezburger.com who let me create and use some images to make my points about web analytics. Actually, web analytics has everything...

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

In today’s New York Times magazine, Clive Thomson has an excellent piece on the evolution of social media and the privacy issues in play. Almost two years ago to the day, Facebook quietly rolled its “News Feed” feature to the masses. The millions of...