Tag Archives: Internet

Terabyte of Life

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Terry Taylor

How many blogs do you read a day? A week?  How about Twitter? YouTube? Facebook? Myspace? Skype? You catch that show on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the game on ESPN? Jon Stewart, House, American Idol? Wait, sorry, I have to respond … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Writers and Storytellers

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Terry Taylor

You have heard this before. Newspapers are dying, if not dead. No one reads books anymore. The Internet is going to images and words are being left in the digidust.  Ironically, the written word’s obit gets rewritten every day. The … Continue reading →

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Gizmodo and Engadget

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In case you have grown tired of the endless things available on the web to distract you, I offer you two more: Gizmodo.com and Engadget.com (thank you again, Jeff). Now I can sleep even less because I’m up all night … Continue reading →

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Wht ru txting?

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I find the texting craze that is so fashionably addressed toward teens to be amusing. I have seen several TV commercials making fun of parents for being clueless on the language of texting. That said; I probably send 40-50 text … Continue reading →

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Important Information

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Terry Taylor

It’s amazing what you can learn if you hang around Jeff. This week, he told me that there are companies who will “appraise” your website domain name and give you an accurate value. These valuations come with little certificates that … Continue reading →

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Glue #4: Glue Tech

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Ever since digital video recorders like TiVo came out, people have been prophesying the death of commercials because people can fast forward through them to only watch the show they recorded. But reality proves otherwise. Tweet This Post

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Glue #3: Vote For Glue

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Terry Taylor

This is the third in a series about corporate Glue. The stuff comes in so many forms that you could use it to hold every company in the world together. But few people do. Let’s look at Glue out there … Continue reading →

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Digital Heroin

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Lev Grossman recently wrote about digital addiction in a piece for Time. He described a point on his commute when people on the train all grabbed their PDA’s and cell phones in pathetic unison as they exited the tunnel and … Continue reading →

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Joost Me Back to the Future

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

From the guys who brought us Kazaa (one of the first music sharing networks) and Skype (the first large-scale Internet phone service) now comes Joost. If you think YouTube is big, you’re five minutes late. Tweet This Post

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Second Life? Where’s My First One?

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Apparently, reality sucks so bad that we need a virtual life, a second life? We need to be someone that we’re not. We need to live and work in an unreal environment. SecondLife.com and There.com are online virtual worlds where … Continue reading →

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You Are What You Eat

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Terry Taylor

Since it’s Fall and because Jeff Johnson has a sick ability to find nearly anything on the Internet, he recently turned me on to square watermelons and square pumpkins (see pictures). Maybe I am totally clueless and square veggies are … Continue reading →

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Blogvertising

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Terry Taylor

Google it. There’s enough junk out there about this nefarious notion to choke your server. Blogvertising is not new, nor is it even very interesting as it is currently being practiced. At its core is the simple idea that some … Continue reading →

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Brandalism

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Terry Taylor

Consumers are getting even with the brands that be. Subvertising and Brandalism and Culture Jamming are just a few ways people are turning cybersumerism into an organized rebellion. And it’s not always the renegades you might expect who bump uglies … Continue reading →

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I’ve Got An Audiobook Jones

Posted on March 17, 2006 by Terry Taylor

“I like to dream, yeah, yeah, right between my sound machine.” The shiny discs sliding into the thin slot, disappearing into the void with its siblings only to return to me as a story. “You don’t know what we can … Continue reading →

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What Does Your Website Say About You?

Posted on March 1, 2006 by Terry Taylor

I went surfing today. I went to amazon.com, coca-cola.com and nike.com. I went to 50 other sites. I went to your website too. Want to know what it makes me think? Want to know how your site made me feel?  … Continue reading →

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