Figured Out the Conspiracy on NBC’s “The Event”…
Monday, October 25th, 2010The Wiggles are poised to take over the world. You heard it here first Posted via email from doughaslam's posterous UPDATE: More evidence!
Archive for October, 2010
The Wiggles are poised to take over the world. You heard it here first Posted via email from doughaslam's posterous UPDATE: More evidence!
Pan-Mass Challenge: 3-Year Fundraising Review & Thoughts on Doing Good, Well
Monday, October 25th, 2010For the last three years, I have raised money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston as one of 5,000 riders in the Pan-Mass Challenge. Due to the fact that many people in my city (Newton, MA) also ride the PMC, and the fact that I do a lot ...
Facebook Asks Too Much Just to Have a Little Fun
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010I thought the latest (UK-based) Skittles campaign, where they ask fans to bury some guy named David Phoenix in Skittles, was amusing enough to check out. However, when I tried to take part, Facebook, as it does with any app, asked me to give it permission to access my profile info. While ...
A Side Effect of Using Location in Tweets; Credibility
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010I noticed in a Wall Street Journal Tweet that they included location, which of course was the WSJ headquarters. My reaction? That it further legitimized the Tweet, showing that it emanated from the real HQ, not some random place. As you can see in the exchange below, another Twitterer, Josh ...
Social Network as Research Base: NPR Polls Twitter & Facebook Followers/Fans
Monday, October 18th, 2010This month, National Public Radio released the results of a study of their Facebook and Twitter followers. Rather than prattle on about the results (which you can read here for Twitter and here for Facebook, or see embedded below), I was more interested in the fact that they used their ...
Social Media Top 5: Welcome to the Hotel Cali-Facebook
Monday, October 11th, 2010Welcome to the Hotel Cali-Facebook "You can opt out any time you want...." When Facebook Groups came out, it intrigued me (ok, partly because it's my job). I was also pretty miffed pretty quickly, for reasons that have been well-documented: People can add you to groups without your knowledge or permission. The "opt-out/your ...
Freeing Up Ideas From Fear
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010How do we write and where do ideas come from? That's too big a question for me to solve, but it was the topic of a recent Six Pixels of Separation podcast, in which host Mitch Joel interviewed Mark Levy. Levy went on at length about free writing, reminding me that ...
