How to Fight Social Media Book Fatigue
Doug Haslam 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…
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PodCamp Boston 3: “Smart Social Media Marketing”
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…
Social Media Top 5: Outage Outrage
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…
Social Media Top 5: The Present and Future of Disconnecting
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…
Buck Rogers book brings back memories
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…
Michael Jackson is Dead
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…
Watching old movies with your kids; yah, I gotta do this more
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…
Harry Potter 7: Best reason to buy it at Costco
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…
That summer camp you went to: what if they wrote a book about it?
*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…
Star Wars, Nothin’ But Star Wars…
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…