Patterns: What causes them/How do you change them?
Doug Haslam People have many years and much money trying tofigure out how traffic patterns work, without really figuring it out. As I encountered unusual traffic at the Mass. Turnpike tolls today,…
Social Media Top 5: Year End Edition
I wasn’t going to join the year-end list-making parade of reflections and predictions. We should be reflecting and predicting everyday, right? Why do it now? Then I realized “everyday” includes…
Surrounded by peas: Susan Reynolds & the Frozen
I saw so many frozen peas today, I couldn’t resist! Thinking of Susan Reynolds, www.twitter.com/susanreynolds, and the Frozen Pea Fund for cancer research. www.frozenpeafund.com. More in the audio. Mobile post…
Social Media Top 5: Easy-Peasy Edition
Here is the pre-Christmas (I’d say pre-holiday but Hanukkah has come and gone) edition of the Social Media Top 5. For the most part, I’m just having fun. Only way…
Must you dine at the mall during the holidays?
This what enforce shopping – e.g., Christmas – does to the human condition. A few tricks to having lunch at the mall during December, if you must: 1. Be willing…
In praise of local businesses
There’s nothing wrong with national chains- if the product and service is good, and the company isn’t totally evil. However, there is nothing like a local business. Pronizing local establishments…
Social Media Top 5: Wintry Mix Edition
A new round of the Social Media items of interest, fun-poking (not the Facebook kind), and totally made-up stories: Snow catches Northeast US by surprise, once again for reasons beyond…
Doug’s Snowy Commute
(UPDATE: Comments welcome below of course, but also share your story on the “Awful commute Wiki” established by Bryan Person.) Yesterday’s (12/13/07) snowsotrm in the Boston area was no record…
Jeremiah Owyang makes Twitter go nuclear
I mean that in the best possible way. Yesterday, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research, in a post about the microblogging service Twitter, invited people to leave their Twitter ID in…
Social Media Top 5: SNCR edition, and I found a new CEO for Facebook!
This edition of the Social Media Top 5, a weekly collection of innuendo, falsehoods, fantasy and occasionally interestingly links (no! not links! I mean, original content with supporting notations.. um,…