Tag Archives: Internet

Bacon! Bacon!

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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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Click, Click. Goodbye.

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

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

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Terry Taylor

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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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 16

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Chapter 16 Popping sounds came from relaxing metal under the pecan tree. Jimmy and Gus found no more drivers licenses. Gasoline soaked the earth. “You’ll want to walk back to the truck,” said Jimmy. “I’m going to roast some pecans.” … Continue reading →

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SEO and the Words You Need To Get It

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Blogs are usually short, pithy, quickly-read, Seth Godin-ish snippets of 400 words or less. If the blog goes longer than that, experts advise you to break up your verbiage with subheads or lists. The things I mostly write here would … Continue reading →

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What does it take to build credibility for your brand?

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Terry Taylor

The Web is a churning ocean of endless information. That is hardly news. Insightful companies have posted some pretty telling numbers about what people think and what we’re doing about it. Edelman’s Trust Barometer alone is enough to make you … Continue reading →

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Once Upon A Time

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Twitter is not the salvation of your branding. There. I said it. Even though I spent a lot of time on Twitter in the last 3 months, writing a novel and a short story  Twitter will not save your business … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case Of My Twitter Novel

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Terry Taylor

  On June 19th, I started doing something crazy: writing a novel on Twitter. Not about Twitter, on it, line by line, chunk by chunk. Watching people in Iran tweeting news out of their country when the press was shut … Continue reading →

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Hockulation, Hockulate, Hockulator

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Terry Taylor

In a conversation with Geoff Stone the other day (we were trying to come up with names for a product and Geoff had launched a particularly funny one), a word wandered in from the cold and stuck in my head. … Continue reading →

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Birthday Fraud

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I have never really celebrated birthdays. Getting older seems like our job as humans, not something to celebrate. It is, at the very least, something unavoidable, so why celebrate it? I don’t. When I signed up for Facebook, I never … Continue reading →

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