Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Just heard that Matt Damon has signed on to play Jason Bourne in a 4th film in the action-packed "Bourne" series. As many of you know, the first three movies were "The Bourne Identity," "Bourne Supremacy," and "the Bourne Ultimatum."
What to name the 4th film? I think we have an ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Time for another semi-satirical look at Social Media happenings. This week, the Facebook WTF: visitors to the popular social network were reported down in the UK for the first time in January. On top of that, numbers have levelled off, even dipped a bit, in the US. What's a super-poker ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Today, we had ample warning of a major snowstorm in the Boston area. A lot of people, remembering the horrid commute of last December 13, telecommuted or made plans to flee the office early and beat the storm.
In fact, here is some video I did during my four-hour commute Dec. ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
We all love blog tag! Ok, maybe we pretend we don't sometimes, but we love being linked to, and we love sharing info about ourselves.
So, I would like to start a blog tag experiment inspired by a client, Brijit, which provides 100-word abstracts of long-form content, or as they put ...
Posted in Movies, politics, social media | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Green Tea-- if it looks like worms and bugs, it must be good for me. Down the hatch!Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies.
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I love baseball, and have all my life, and have come to appreciate the goofballs and pranksters that litter baseball history. In fact, that's the main reason I would like to see the great lefty Bert Blyleven enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
Well, now there is a new Major ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Some of the strangest random possessions have the best stories behind them. My wife grew up in Boston's South End, her family moving in back in 1968. To get a partial idea of the South End in the 1960's and 1970's have a peek at J. Anthony Lukas' celebrated book ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Time again for my Social Media top 5, a weekly round-up of items, real and imagined, from the world of the Internet and social media:
Email apnea seems to be a real illness. Do people stop breathing when they read email? Another reason to wean yourself off. there are certain emails ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Perhaps only for my own amusement, here is video of my portion of the presentation at yesterday's Social Media Breakfast:
Thanks to Mike Bayer of Utterz for the video. I should also thank the Utterz team for helping me deal with WordPress' seeming hatred of embedded Flash objects. They helped me ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
For a straight take on the Social Media breakfast, please see my post at Tech PR Gems.
This morning I was among the four presenters to talk about "How Twitter Changed My Life" at the 5th Social Media Breakfast at the S&S Deli in Cambridge, Mass.
First critique: aside from the fact ...
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