Here’s a one-minute music video on Animoto of some photos I took at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (And here’s the remix, which I like a bit better and shown above.) Among those featured: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Ford Motors CEO Alan Mulally, Cathy Brooks, Maggie Fox of Social Media Club, Kiesha […]
Managing your online reputation
AOL's Switched: Your Online Reputation Is More Important Than You Think If you are a relatively good person and are finding it impossible to get a job — or a date — you may want to Google yourself. Approximately 70-percent of employers look up job applicants online. 50-percent admit information they have dug up on […]
On the lighter side at CES
Some of these "messages" to Steve Ballmer, shown at the start of his keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night, cracked me up. (Yes, I know they were written by Microsoft’s marketing team. Doesn’t matter.) From: Jerry YangSteve. Why do you keep ignoring my Facebook requests? From: Rod BlagojevichHow do you delete email […]
A new beginning for the media
James Poniewozik in Time magazine: An End, and a Beginning, for the Media. Excerpt: Like the car companies, individual media outlets will probably have to learn to be smaller. And they’ll need to see their new-media "problems" as part of the solution. Internet users don’t hate the media. In fact, when given the tools by […]
Smashwords tries to democratize book industry
San Jose Mercury News: Written any good e-books lately? A Q&A with Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, a free digital publishing platform launched last year that allows anyone to become an e-book author. As regular readers know, I’ve been an advocate of pushing the book industry into the digital age long before my book […]