Archive for the 'Online' Category


Sean’s Screed

“Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism” by Sean Parker He’s right, but he’s wrong. Is the blogosphere, the online “news” world, more interested in clicks than facts? YOU BET! Is this a problem? OF COURSE! But to hear a billionaire whine on for 9500 words that he’s been misunderstood is […]

How I Made Something Go Viral

Facebook Is For Old People INSPIRATION So my girlfriend points out a picture on Facebook of a rich friend on a plane with her dog and I’m reading the comments…and I see that of the wife of a famous movie producer, whose story was told in “Vanity Fair.” That’s when it hit. If these people […]

Facebook Is For Old People

Oldsters are about yesterday. Youngsters are about today. Documenting your entire life history, building a timeline, a shrine to yourself, so that the people you grew up with will be impressed? That’s for baby boomers. Their children want nothing to do with it. Kids are for living, oldsters are for dying. Baby boomers didn’t start […]

Signal/Noise

I’m trying to separate the signal from the noise. Once upon a time, information was scarce, like music. You had to hunt for it, no one was pointing a fire hose at your face, which is what logging on to the Internet is like. It’s a tsunami of information. Time is limited. Where do you […]