Still slowly catching up on the Real Tech podcasts (you can find all the episodes, including the most current, over at http://rtfrp.com) This is episode 111. Show Notes: NEWS: AND… GOOGLE DRIVE is official.  Is it a “Wow!†or an...
Can there be an event that is more social than the Olympics? Â One would think that if any organization would encourage the concepts of sharing, of openness, of coming together to share an event through whatever means, it would be...
One of the challenges I face is figuring out how to share my various [work interests/hobbies] in a way that shows the relationship between them.  Especially as an academic, trying to show how my various apparently dissimilar research efforts were related posed...
My brother wrote recently in his blog a response to a student who apparently had some concerns about the apparent futility of writing blogs as a regular (weekly) assignment. Â That had me thinking about sharing here the ways I have...
IT was brought to my attention, as we prepare for tonight’s podcast, Real Tech for Real People episode 47, that Flickr has changed they way you can link/embed photographs. Â In the past, you could just include a link to the...
Yesterday my brother posted a tweet, acknowledging that he is on 35 lists on Twitter.1 Â This got me thinking about how these lists are created, and actually made public…. and thinking once again about the notions of “Crowdsourcing” and the...
The tide of opinion seems to have shifted against Facebook, and there is a growing movement to “Leave” facebook. Â Alas, many of us are finding it hard to leave Facebook. What to do? How about this–build your own community! Â The...
This week I am attending  the 2009 INFORMS “Annual Meeting.”  This is more of a Symposium, or a Conference, than a “meeting” with nearly 70 sessions occurring simultaneously, 4 times a day for 4 days.  That is 1, 120 sessions and each...
Last month, Jason Calacanis (entrepreneur, and most recently founder of Mahalo) wrote in his newsletter about how he was willing to pay twitter for exposure, and he then asked his readers three questions. I chose then to reply to him...
In my previous post I wrote about some of my thoughts concerning three key points that I drew from Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur”. I wanted to take a few minutes to write about ways to address the...