Category Archives: How to use the Internet better

Social Media and Blogs work best together

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Daniel

Blog posts tweet, tweets update status on LinkedIn…”Snakes eat frogs/hogs eat snakes/men eat hogs.” (hat tip to Wallace Stevens

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It’s a woman’s world, guys. Good!

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Daniel

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/the-world/article/the-power-of-the-purse-interview-with-maddy-dychtwald-matthew-e-may I think this trend’s been helping me develop my freelance consulting career. Women “get it” and they (mostly) don’t need to engage in the gaudy territorial displays and pointless, testosterone-driven competitive rituals that make the male-dominated world so joyless … Continue reading →

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Local Search: Key Statistic – 10 Billion Local Searches per month

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Daniel

I like to emphasize the importance of Local Search and Mobile Search when I do workshops about the Internet for Businesses, but this statistic took me by surprise.  (I also chuckled a few months ago when Leo Laporte and Jeff … Continue reading →

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“Sorry, kid. Ain’t got no pencil, can’t give no autograph.” How Paul Auster became a Writer

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Daniel

I just read this wonderful story about how novelist Paul Auster became a writer: Famous novelist, Paul Auster, wrote an simple, yet moving essay on why he writes. In the story Auster retells a childhood moment in New York where … Continue reading →

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My Birthday Message to the World – Health Care Reform will pass!

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Daniel

Like a lot of birthday presents I’ve received in the course of a life not unmarked by disappointment, the imminent passage of the Health Care Reform bill is not perfect, or even what I really wanted. But I’ll take it! … Continue reading →

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How the world still is…

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Daniel

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. – William Blake, Auguries of Innocence Are … Continue reading →

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Websites we like: westfordcomp.com

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Daniel

http://www.westfordcomp.com/ Very interesting, slightly mysterious website. Among other photography galleries, it offers a unique collection of photographs made from film found in old cameras. The collector must have grown up in the 1950s (as I did). His comments on the … Continue reading →

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Websites we like: Catskill Merino Sheep Farm

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Daniel

I’ve been receiving email newsletters from this blog since sometime last year when I bought some of the farm’s sublime Lamb Bacon. (I think I found it in The New York Times Dining & Wine section.) Eugene Wyatt writes really … Continue reading →

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Newspapers are suffering from “Legacy Code”

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Daniel

Fantastic piece from Michael Kinsley in The Atlantic about one of the many things that are wrong with our newspapers: overblown and overlong writing. He analyzes and quantifies the maddening fluff, extraneous verbiage, coy attempts at false balance, and general … Continue reading →

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