Archive for January, 2010

How Twitter, Posterous & Friends Make the World Safe for Pedestrians (or: “Still Think Twitter is Silly?”)

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Here's a little story about how social media got the sidewalks cleared in my neighborhood. Sounds like a small deal, but it is an important safety issue. I had one of those unexpected gratifying moments on Twitter today. Actually, it was on Twitter/Flickr/Blogs, via Posterous (and, as I realized blow, as I was writing ...

A Personal Perspective on Making Career Networking Work

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_2239" align="alignright" width="360" caption="Photo Credit: PlusDelta on Flickr"][/caption] As you may have gathered from my recent post, I am making a career transition- ok, I'm looking for a job, sound better? The process of the search has changed a lot since 2001/2002, the last time I left one job without ...

Media Bullseye Column: Social Media Changes in 2009: One User’s Perspective

Monday, January 4th, 2010

This article originally appeared at Media Bullseye. Please click on over to see some even better articles on social media from an assembly of very smart folks. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="230" caption="Photo Credit: Optical illusion on Flickr"][/caption] I am not one to post predictions or "best of" posts at the end ...

Robots! Trucks!

Friday, January 1st, 2010

The little boy in me loved finally getting the chance to see Newton, MA's automated garbage tucks in action. Vroom! Robots! Trucks! from Doug Haslam on Vimeo. Posted via web from doughaslam's posterous