McMansion Hell, Zillow and Intellectual Property This past week, I have seen passionate posts online about the issue of the (very funny) McMansion Hell site being served with a Cease & Desist (and threatened lawsuit) by Zillow over using images without permission. First things, first- Zillow dropped the threats in exchange for MMH’s agreement to…well, … [Read more…]
Instagram Wants You to Label Your Garbage (well, Your Sponsored Posts) What would it take for me to dust off my blog after some well earned rest (aka “neglect”)? Some good news from the world of social media disclosure, of course! Instagram is introducing “sponsored post” labels. To someone who has often harped on the lack of … [Read more…]
A note to start: I am no longer calling this “Social Media Top 5.” I stopped doing social media exclusively a couple of years ago, and not sure I ever used social as a strict guideline for choosing topics. Plus, it’s all about me, so now it’s “My Top 5.” Other than that, this post … [Read more…]
UPDATE: I had originally planned to write thoughts on how our new President’s use of Twitter as his outlet for kneejerk infantile rage showed both the possibilities and extreme downside to the platform (that I still use, by the way), but I’ll just let this story about some of the National Parks and NASA accounts doing … [Read more…]
I have taken my sweet time since my last post. Yeah, Happy Holidays to you, too. However, this post is brought to you IN LIVING COLOR: To Feed or Not to Feed the Trolls This one is from today (as I write this), but don’t get too excited: My friend Scott Monty brought my attention … [Read more…]
As 2016 ends, I would like to make my annual review of my Pan-Mass Challenge fundraising efforts. Every summer – the first full weekend of August – I join 6,200 other cyclists in this annual 2-day cancer fundraiser. This past summer, the PMC raised $47 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston – rather than make … [Read more…]
Craptivism Won’t Kill You I have long been reluctant to festoon my social media profiles with the trappings of social activism (remember “Twibbons?”), because I don’t really think I am doing anything concrete for a cause if I’m doing so- especially if that’s all I’m doing. The latest, in the aftermath of the presidential election, is … [Read more…]
Activism/Slacktivism This morning (October 31) I started noticing friends checking in to Standing Rock, ND, the location of protests by Native Americans (the Standing Rock Sioux) against the Dakota Access Pipeline. My first reaction was to assume the unlikely: some friends were traveling to join the protests. Wow, right? No, it turned out some Facebook … [Read more…]
How About Addressing the Real Problems with Conferences? Most of the tips for conferences in this post by Marcus Sheridan make sense; all are, at worst, arguable. They are also mostly small fixes aimed at making the speakers’ lives better. I guess that makes sense, as the writer is a professional speaker. As a sometime conference attendee, … [Read more…]
Four this week. So what… Brangelina Is Big News, so Spare Me Your Condescension I rarely have time for memes, but the I’m finding the latest to be as tiring as any: since news broke of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce and the predictable over-coverage by so-called news media, some folks wishing for us to … [Read more…]