Online

They Know You’re Reading This

I was recently complaining to a teller at my bank that the another bank down the street had given my three-year-old daughter a stuffed horse for nothing more than walking past the front door. I jokingly asked her what gifts my own bank would be willing to offer to compete for the affections of my daughter. Then I said, “Oh, you probably don’t like it when I mention the competition when I’m in here, eh?”


August 19, 2011
Online

Does The Internet Make You More Connected, Or Less?

The other day my friend Mordy asked me this question: Are you more or less connected since you started spending so much time on the internet?


August 3, 2011
Online

How To Hold Someone’s Attenti—Ooh, Twitter Updates

…I’m 12 stories up and being chased by two guys with four guns, and I’m running out of roof which leaves me with two choices: I duck and cry, or I take a flying leap for the adjacent building’s rooftop.


June 10, 2011
Online

The First Rule Of Tweet Club

A lot of writers like to see readers react to their work – it’s gratifying. But as Tweetage Wasteland’s Dave Pell explains, sometimes what happens on the Internet needs to stay on the Internet.


May 28, 2011
Online

I Don’t Care If You Read This Article

When it comes to Internet publishing, there’s traffic figures and everything else. But does that mean we must become slaves to Comscore? Tweetage Wasteland’s David Pell believes it may just be a matter of perspective.


January 14, 2011
Online

Discovering The Maximum Velocity Of Twitter

As a kid at my local county fair, I used to ride a roller coaster that rumbled around a circular track as songs like Foreigner’s Urgent blasted through a set of giant speakers.


December 15, 2010
Online

100 People I Hate On Facebook

The friending, the liking, the status updating: sooner or later we all grow to hate it, but we can’t stop.


December 5, 2010
Online

Offline Shopping Is Alive And Trampling


November 20, 2010
Mobile

I Can’t Keep It In My Pants

On the day of the San Francisco Giants World Series parade, I headed to the corner of California and Montgomery where I was sure I had a good vantage to watch the players roll by in their rubber-wheeled cable cars.


November 5, 2010

From Walkman To Facebook: How Tuning Out Led To Tuning In

The Walkman is dead. Long live the Walkman.