Category: Technology

On Twitter, there’s a trending topic called #4wordsbeforedeath. Some of the responses were pretty funny, so I decided to do a “best of” for your amusement, @johnhawkinsrwn #4wordsbeforedeath Over my dead body! @ez_Mattic #4wordsbeforedeath no more bill collectors @sonibologna #4wordsbeforedeath What does this do? @craZy18gurl: #4wordsbeforedeath Gotta update Facebook status! @huggbuggsvideos #4wordsbeforedeath Switch off the […]

Mashable’s Brian Solis wrote an excellent post entitled “21 Rules for Social Media Engagement“. They are good rules. I thought I’d add some thoughts from a political perspective because some are doing it way wrong, some just a little wrong and some aren’t doing social media at all (these are the stupid people). I’m going […]

Unbelievable. But not really: Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions. His request prompted us to re-examine everything we […]

It’s a tough call about who is more evil: the government or Google. In this case, it looks like their evilness canceled each other out and became a greater good! Breitbart has the story: Well, now we’ve learned that one of those who apparently got swept up in the Buzz privacy imbroglio was none other […]

Google skates the edge. Persistently, relentlessly invading our lives. We want Google. We need Google. Then, they go and do something like Buzz and we feel violated. They cow-tow to the Chinese government and allow censorship to the Chinese people. Or strangely, no matter how you enter “Islam” into Google, you won’t get negative word […]

Maybe it’s because this latest generation has grown up on the internet, but I’ve noticed lately that a lot of people do not seem to have an appropriate sense of what should be private and public information on the internet. People whose relationship status on Facebook goes from “In a relationship” to “It’s complicated” to […]

I do believe Twitter’s Follow Friday tradition needs to be re-vamped to be relevant. Here’s the problem: People are creating too many tweets filled with “cool” people and clogging everyone’s streams with chum. That is, people have ceased paying attention to the vast numbers of the Follow Friday Tweets so they’re ceasing to be helpful. […]

Another stupid study about wasted work time and spilling company secrets from the Telegraph: More than half of office workers use sites like Twitter and Facebook for personal use during the working day, and admit wasting an average of 40 minutes a week each. One in three of the 1,460 office workers surveyed also said […]

A tale of two technologies. I don’t care that blood draws by cops help stop drunk driving, I don’t want a cop near a needle, period. Too many things can go wrong. What about surgeons giving updates from the surgery? Coolness. Doctors take turns, nurses help open and close, and in between a surgeon can […]