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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, or indifference being familiar with who you are, [...]

It’s just a different colored box

So, let’s review. Big tech/startup-y/social media whiz-bang hulaboo company starts up it’s business. People seem to like it. It grows customers. Social/emerging/new media spreads it wildly. More people come in. Bloggers start to write about it. Progressive tech publications pick it up. Video blogs run clips and interviews. [...]

The real iPhone fail

Since we got our first iPhone 3Gs last summer, my girlfriend and I have had vastly different experiences. And sadly, I don’t think either one is atypical. We both had first-gen iPhones, which we sold. We both appreciate the iPhone platform, the always on e-mail, the application platform, the instant purchase of music, the download of [...]

Stop running

Sitting here, on my couch, looking back on the last year of my life, I’ve begun to realize - I’ve changed. And while, yes, I’m sure you’re probably thinking something to the effect of, “well, yes, Matt, we all change”, for me it’s a more pronounced change than I can remember in my recent [...]

So, Matt, just where ARE you going?

In life, sometimes it’s just good to make a change, and I’ve decided to again do that in my career. In more than 10 years as a web professional, I’ve worked with an airline (JetBlue), a content network that now realistically can be now defined as one of the largest blog networks online, both [...]

Here’s a thought - paid social may just not be a bad thing

Once upon a time, it was sacrilege to offer up “Paid search results” as part of any search on the web. Go.com (then Overture -> then Yahoo! Performance Marketing -> Panama -> who cares), used to catch a lot of heat for these. But they made a lot of money. The industry has had a [...]