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So long, iPhone, it’s not you, it’s AT&T.

So, I’m done with the iPhone. And to the estimated 1.5 million of you who bought iPhone 4s yesterday, and the astounding 77% of you who upgraded from a prior iPhone, I wish you the best of luck. The AT&T issues are just too much for me to agree to give 2 more years (with [...]

My “ah ha moment”

In college, like a whole lot of people, I spent a whole lot of time trying to figure out what the point in learning about the Ming dynasty was, or why I should care about ancient philosophy, or why the social patterns of migrating Eskimos were relevant to my future expected life of building and [...]

We are the machine.

Let’s face it, 98% of the information we’re exposed to on a daily basis isn’t worth caring about for more than an minute or two, or frankly, at all. A great deal of this should really be filed under “who gives a sh*t?”, but isn’t. Don’t believe me? Sign off all of your social networks [...]

One score, and three media types ago…

When Ken Burns’ epic documentary The Civil War premiered on September 23, 1990, I was hooked. Problem was, it took me about 20 years to figure out, “on what”. I was 11, right at the beginning of the creative development that would shape my life and times on the Internet (still years away), but [...]

How I learned to love the iPad

THE PREFACE Let me start with a quick confession. I am King Hypocrite. Until about 5am of the day of the iPad launch, I wasn’t going to get an iPad. Since it’s late January announcement I’d been one of the naysayers, who focused on the things it couldn’t do (Flash, multitasking, install apps from anywhere, [...]

Deconstructing Social Media mentorship

In my last post, I mentioned the value of mentorship in the long term success of this now loose conflagration of ”social media” and I felt it appropriate to elaborate a little more on this topic. After some inspired conversation with some good folks this week, I wanted to crystallize my thoughts just a [...]

Social Media 2.0, 2.0.

After a while, it becomes painfully obvious to me that the first phase of “social media” is ending. File this post under the chorus of dozens of people who’ve said the same thing in the past year, and I know it becomes a very rich choir indeed. But the truth is, “social media” is not [...]

On Leno, and Conan and what really matters

Leno gets cancelled. Conan strikes back. Kimmel piles on Leno. Letterman piles on Leno, too. NBC flies in the face of logic by giving Leno another shot. Enough? No wait. Here’s more rich white guys to pile on – TV legend Dick Ebersol does the “classy” thing, and throws Conan under the bus (he probably [...]

One year later

One year ago today, you left us unexpectedly and somehow I put it together long enough to write this. I think today on the anniversary of your passing, I’m sort of caught with a bunch of conflicted emotions that I don’t know how to make sense out of. I can’t believe it’s been an entire [...]

It is…

Never forget. It is, all at once: a lost second, a minute, or an hour, but also timeless a short day, a long day, or something in between predictable and unexpected opportunity, success, failure and rebirth failure and success, at the same time a glance, a stare, a smile, a wink a scowl, a smirk, [...]