At New Media Expo in Las Vegas last month, I joined Chuck Joiner for a discussion of Social Media and its implications for corporations. We discussed whether or not corporations “get” Tweeting, blogging and other aspects of Social Media and whether it’s too late for those who don’t. As always, it was a lively and [...]
My wonderful family gave me a new iPhone 3GS for Father’s Day this year. It’s an amazing device that has enough improvements in speed and new features that it feels like as big a game-changer to me as the original iPhone. I wrote a short piece for The Mac Observer that explains why I thought [...]
My biggest problem with “Go Green” initiatives (and the plain ol’ “environmentally friendly” ones before them) is that well-intentioned people jump on them without considering their impact because no one wants to be seen as hurting the environment. We’ve all heard stories about how the environmental impact of recycling material can be greater than properly [...]
Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style turned 50 the other day. It and The AP Stylebook have always been indispensible tools in my writing. I always get a kick out of the fact that such an authoritative work of scholarship was co-written by the guy who gave us Charlotte’s Web.