Category Archives: Internet

Rudy’s Klout

Social media is constantly changing and adding new sites. If you have an extra 3 minutes in your day, social media will find a way to use 4 of them. Now there is a way to measure your influence across … Continue reading

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Lessons From Create Tech

Recently, Geoff Stone and I attended the AAAA’s Create Tech conference in NYC to hear from several of the digital and emerging technology leaders in branding. Of course that means people like Scott Prindle and Brian Skahan from CP&B, Trevor … Continue reading

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Not Everyone Is Seth Godin

Blogging is not dying; it’s just getting tired. Have you noticed this trend? People are rambling and posting stuff from other blogs and repeating themselves. Sometimes they just post pics, and why not? No one reads anymore. Do you want … Continue reading

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Social and Mobile.

Everything is digital. And everything is social. There are no sides anymore, or a fence either. Traditional media lives within and outside both as well. I think the problem is content. And companies may not be exclusively creating content if … Continue reading

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Killing Me Softly With Social Media

I started to write a little story about social media. I did write it actually. And I went to sleep proofing it. It was pretty good, too, but in the end it was yet another post about social media. Google … Continue reading

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The Future Internet and Toilet Paper

In the future, the Internet will be very different from what it has been, and very much like everything else we’ve known for years. I won’t get into the whole Internet versus Web argument by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff … Continue reading

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Bacon! Bacon!

Who doesn’t love bacon? I’ve never met anyone who hates bacon. We love bacon cheeseburgers, bacon bits, bacon and eggs, BLT’s and bacon lip balm. Yes. Bacon lip balm is available from Thinkgeek.com. So is bacon pop corn, bacon lollipops, … Continue reading

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Social Network: You and Mr. Zuckerberg

If you haven’t seen Social Network, go now. Go tonight. Go tomorrow. It’s a heartwarming tale of genius and greed and betrayal, brilliantly written, directed and acted. No doubt, there will be soon be movies that examine Napster’s start (a … Continue reading

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Copywriters Don’t Write Anymore

In a digital world were words are less important than the ideas they  convey, the craft of writing is changing. Hell, it has changed, drastically.  I’m not saying that all copywriters are becoming keyboard mutes, I’m saying that snippets and … Continue reading

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Click, Click. Goodbye.

With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured … Continue reading

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I Write Like

Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to … Continue reading

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The American Web

Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford … Continue reading

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Vaguebooking

We’ve all done it. Filled the little square on Facebook with vacuous gibberish, then hit “comment.” I won’t use any examples here, go to your Facebook page and you will see for yourself. No shortage of mindless ramblings that serve … Continue reading

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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 17

Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here (in chronological order). Thank you for your time. A breeze raked a fallen pine … Continue reading

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Facelessbook

Is it just me, but on Facebook, there seems to be a lot of fan pages, but not a lot of active fans? Your friends are pretty engaged. They post stuff and make comments and toss pics up. But on … Continue reading

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