From My Couch… Thy Social Media Monitoring Shall Be Done

So I came up with this idea after seeing two TVs at Brickhouse Security acting like a giant Tweetdeck platform.
The build is here.

The end result is here.

Welcome to my living room – or, as I call it, the world’s First Ever Couchside Social Media Monitoring Center. Two Samsung 52-inch LCD Flatscreens on either side of [...]



The “Right Stuff” Apparently Starts in Your Inner Ear

46 hours later, I’m still a slight bit nauseous.
That’s not to say that my trip on G-Force One wasn’t entirely worth it. Because it was. Even just to see the joy in my dad’s eyes as he got to fly around the plane like a 67-year-old Superman made all my nausea and sweating completely worth [...]



24,500 Queries Later… Happy First Birthday, HARO!

I’m writing this today from a hotel room in Park City, Utah. One year ago, I wrote this blog post from a hotel room in Los Angeles, California. It talked about how my little Facebook group, called “If I Can Help A Reporter Out, I Will,” blew through 1,200 members, and I had to move [...]



I’m living proof that everything is live, and nothing is private anymore.

But it could have been a lot worse. I could have been off-key.
The Six party at Tap Room at SXSW on Monday night.



Use Twitter for Good at #SXSW – Here’s how

So I was walking out of the airport to my cab, and as I was putting my bag in the trunk, I looked down and found this 30 gig iPod lying on the ground.

There are enough Geek podcasts on it to guarantee that the person who lost it is a South by Southwest attendee.
So help [...]