Looking at the World Through T3 Colored Glasses

In 1995 when I was helping to found the AOL Newsroom, I coined a phrase:
Stop looking at the world through T3 colored glasses.
A T3 line was one of the fastest pipes to transmit data at the time, and AOL being AOL, we sat right on top of about 100 of them. You could follow our [...]



Five Random Things You Should Be Doing More Of

To compliment yesterday’s post involving five things you shouldn’t do, here’s five things you’re not doing enough of, and you should be doing more.
5) Read different things. If the only places you get your news and information are the same places you’ve been going for the past year, it’s time to find some new spots. [...]



Five reasons I’m NOT quitting Facebook

This week’s topic-du-jour-that’s-not-about-Lindsay-and-her-alcohol-classes seems to be about quitting Facebook, and how Mark Zuckerberg is, depending on who you talk to, the Devil, the Antichrist, or both. Even Calacanis jumped into the fray this morning with a post that made some good points.
Now, first off – understand – I’m not saying Zuck is right, or even [...]



Survey: 32% of people have posted then regretted

Every once in a long while, someone pitches me something that’s surprisingly right on target. Today was one. Jennifer Jacobson at Retrevo sent me an interesting pitch about a survey they conducted – Turns out, I’m right to keep my Blackberry at home when I go out and know I’ll be drinking. Results below. [...]



I Have Seen the Douchebag. And He is (some of) Us.

I woke up this morning, my first night home after a very successful South by Southwest, to a hungry cat at 5:30am. I was exhausted, and pushed her away. Turns out, she wasn’t so much hungry, as she was trying to inform me of a shitstorm brewing in the comments section of a well-written blog [...]