Tag Archives: Internet

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 →

Posted in Internet, Personal Stories | Tagged , | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in In The News, Internet, Technology | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Books, Internet, Personal Stories | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Coworkers, Famous People, Food, Internet, Technology | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Coworkers, Humor, Internet, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Coworkers, Humor, Internet, Personal Stories, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

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.

Posted in Advertising, Branding, Glue, Television | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Branding, Famous People, Glue, Government | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in In The News, Internet, Technology, Television | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in Advertising, Coworkers, Internet, Music, Technology, Television | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment