by David | Apr 22, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories
Is every crowdsourced “let’s catch the Bad Guys” effort inherently doomed to wind up as a witch hunt? For a while last week, as we were all caught up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was cheered up a bit by the efforts of Reddit and...
by David | Mar 7, 2013 | Blogging, Digital Migration, new media
OK, this is really derivative, but I’m so impressed with the insight in this list that I’m shamelessly repeating it here. Go to BoingBoing. Click on the ads. Give them some money. They are good. I like BoingBoing. (Please, no DMCA notice for this…)...
by David | Mar 4, 2013 | Blogging, Lemmings, Sip With Caution
The “Follow/Unfollow Dance” builds your lists … but to what end? Social media whiz & Cheesehead Homie Erik Johnson writes powerfully about his experience with one of his intellectual idols. Viz: Every school had one. The kid who pretended to be...
by David | Jan 12, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs
The blogging community is notoriously hard to please. Check out the vitriolic tweets directed at the poor victims who dared to sit onstage at the close of the NMX convention, talking about “Inventing the Future.” Check out the silvery television-headed...
by David | Jan 8, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Digital Migration
Somehow, I expected more of a mad scientist’s lab, with chortling henchmen. Or hench-Americans, as I hear they prefer to be addressed…. It is always dangerous to give a group of bloggers (should that be “a flamewar of bloggers”?) a stage and a...
