Archive for the ‘books’ Category
Monday, February 28th, 2011
I had the pleasure recently of reading two books by people I know. Two *more* social media books by people I know quite well.
So, how am I supposed to do an objective review?
I'm not.
How am I supposed to drum up enthusiasm for social media books when it's probably much healthier ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
For PodCamp Boston 3, I was fortunate to be invited to sit on a panel with crayon's Greg Verdino, Morpheus Media's Adam Broitman (pictured below, with me, as a make-good for leaving him out of my "Bald Marketing Bloggers" post), and ooVoo's Philip Robertson, titled "Smart Social Media Marketing. ...
Posted in books, PodCamp, Public Relations, rant, social media | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Twitter's frequent (enough) outages have caused some rumblings of mutiny among the Twitter community. Just listen:
While the Twitter Blog tries to explain the outages as the service tries to keep up with its increasing popularity, the community needs to take things into its own hands. So, I asked people, on ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I just returned from a vacation in which I was somewhat successful staying offline—or, at least kept myself from being immersed in my personal Web 2.0 multimedia world at my usual ridiculous level.
Returning home, I got to thinking; how might different types of New Media makers disconnect on vacation, assuming ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
When I was a kid, my big nerd pleasure was getting big books of classic comic reprints out of the library: Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon- and this one, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. My mother-in-law picked this up for my son at an estate sale, unaware that I would ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The one and only Michael Jackson has died. I was sad to learn this, two weeks after the fact, from the great WhiskeyCast.*
As a Scotch drinker, I found Michael Jackson's Complete Guide to Scotch an immense help in learning about the different Scotch regions, and the subtler differences among ...
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
As a lifelong movie fan, part-time art-film snob, and dad, I had a great time reading Boston Globe film critic Ty Burr's new book"The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together."
First, I should disclose that I know Ty-- we live in the same school district, and my ...
Posted in books, Movies | 4 Comments »
Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Originally uploaded by douglashaslam
Why buy "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows" at Costco? Because you can get these sweet boxes to carry your booze.
Also, I scratch my head at the people who line up to buy the book on the first night. One Twitter friend told me that ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
*Edited to bump the Key Foundation URL to buy the book
Speaking of keeping up connections, and nurturing relationships:
Many of you have a summer camp or other institution you went to as a child, youth, or young adult; for me, it was Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation in Northwood, New Hampshire.
I was ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about how Harry Potter books got kids into reading. True enough, but for my 9 year old son it is Nothin' But Star Wars, and the dozens of novels it has spawned, from Boba Fett's adventures to the "Last of ...
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