All Things Cahill

Friday Music Video: Deep Banana Blackout

Mark Cahill — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:54:12 +0000

Caught up with these guys from a tweet by Shel Holtz. Gritty New Orleans funk you can really sink your teeth into. Find more videos like this on Deep Banana Blackout Dig Deeper: Deep Banana Blackout site Deep Banana Blackout on Archive.org (live show recordings) Wikipedia Page

Repeat After Me…

Mark Cahill — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:06:35 +0000

Okay, all you wanna be corporate social media flacks, repeat after me: Brands don’t blog…people do. A new theme doesn’t make up for lack of compelling content. Do not expect your developer/designer to make up for your lack of a content strategy. If you can’t find one person in the corporation worthy of blogging in [...]

WordPress on Windows…Why Would You?

Mark Cahill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:54:10 +0000

Over the past two months I’ve had a look at two different sites running on WordPress that were running on Windows Servers. In both cases, the sites were having issues, and in both cases, they could not get simple functionality they wanted to work on the servers and ended up moving to Linux hosting. Does [...]

So What the Heck is Twitter?

Mark Cahill — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:24:20 +0000

I’ve been using Twitter now for 2.5 years. Honestly, I’m still grappling with the question: what the heck is Twitter? Wikipedia, never short for answers has this: Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of [...]

And now for something completely different…

Mark Cahill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:51:53 +0000

Ministry of Silly Walks – Monty Python. Because its definitely that sort of day…

iPopcorn for the iPhone

Mark Cahill — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:48:55 +0000

Friday Music Video – Chris Amodeo

Mark Cahill — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:52:40 +0000

Excellent video of “Don’t Panic” from Chris Amodeo off his debut album, Homo Luminous… Dig Deeper: Chris’ website http://homo-luminous.com/ (This alone is worth a visit – a very wonderful and different design…) On Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Chris-Amodeo-Homo-Luminous/133986026631106

“I Coulda’ Had a V8″ – Social Media in the Real World

Mark Cahill — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:59:08 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve dealt with the substance of Social Media. There’s a reason for that. Mostly its become that which I always said it would: simply a tool in the toolbox of the community developer. So where are we now, really? We’ve certainly passed the point where Social Media was the next [...]

Friday Music Video: Ric Porter and the Sons of the Soil

Mark Cahill — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:02:32 +0000

They’re playing a rare happy hour gig at Ralph’s Chadwick Square Grill in Worcester today from 5-8. Be there, and mention this blog post and your first beer is on me. Limited to the first 5 takers.

A Day at the Beach

Mark Cahill — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:50:38 +0000

Misquamicut Beach was more crowded than I’ve ever seen it. The state beach closed early and word was out there wasn’t a grain of sand to be seen between the blankets. the girls had a blast. MacKenzie playing in the surf while Madison dug the biggest hole I’ve ever seen. she could dig foxholes for [...]