October 2008

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blogging, social media
Are Social Networks the New Home Base for Spam?
10.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

If you have a blog, you surely get comment spam. I get nearly as many spam comments as regular ones. Thankfully, Akismet catches them and sends me an email to decide whether they are allowed or trashed.
The emails that come in show the URLs of the links in the comments. In a few emails this [...]
Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media
Help The Race to 20k
10.28.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

Remember playing telephone as a kid? Social media can be kind of like that.
Thomas Keown started One Home Many Hopes, a nonprofit organization that is working to improve the lives of girls in Kenya.
“One Home Many Hopes” is a loving home for orphaned girls in Mtwapa, Kenya. It provides former street children with a nurturing [...]
life, work
Michael Douglas Played Me in a Movie. Kind of.
10.26.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

It’s the late 90s. I was working at Verizon (then Bell Atlantic) in a 700-person customer service center. One day, as with the thousands of calls I took in the two years I spent there, I answer a call with the standard greeting that I can recall to this day: “Thank you for calling the [...]
Twitter, blogging, social media, work
On the Continuing Loss of Social Media Leadership in Boston
10.26.08 | Permalink | 18 Comments

Last Thursday night, a bunch of us from the Boston-area social media scene got together to welcome Ken Burbary to town. That was the original plan, at least.
A few days before the Tweetup, Aaron Strout let us know that he’s leaving Mzinga, and Boston, for a position at Powered in Austin, TX.
So we had a [...]
Family, life
My Dad, the Moose Hunter
10.21.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

My parents live in Florida, so we don’t see them very often. As a present for his 70th birthday, my brother-in-law took my father to Newfoundland on a moose hunting trip. Successful after just a few days, they returned to my sister and brother-in-law’s house Petersham. (For comparison, Petersham has a population of 1,180, less [...]
Twitter, blogging, life, social media
Twitter Helped Me Steal Canada’s Greatest Natural Resource
10.16.08 | Permalink | 44 Comments

Say hi to Meg
Meg and I should have never met.
Meg lives in Vancouver; the farthest west I’ve ever been is Tennessee. She’s a freelance writer; I schlep to work at a pharmaceutical publishing company every day - no chance we’d ever meet at an industry conference or something like that. The likelihood we’d ever be [...]