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When you think of punk rockers, what comes to mind? A bunch of strung out, skinny white kids rebelling against any and everything, all at once? If so, take a look at Bad Brains, circa 1979.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Yeah, I’m two weeks late on this, but I wanted to let you know that I joined Leslie Poston, Jonathan Yarmis, and several others for the “Topics on Fire: Generation Gap and Technology” podcast. In it we discussed, well technology and how different generations are dealing with it, and each other. Have a listen, and [...]

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