• Imagine! #SocialGood Sees 45K Tweets in a Week

    On Twitter last week one of the clear places to be was hashtag #social good as Mashable and the UN were among the organizations (along with 92d Street Y) putting on the Social Good Summit. “New technology and media are changing the world,” is a key part of SGS’s marketing promotion. Livestrong CEO Lance Armstrong …

  • Groupon Fatigue

    Once upon a time not very long ago it was widely reported that the coupon-site Groupon was about to launch an IPO priced at something like $30 billion. When Google offered Groupon $6 billion last December the founders of the company said thank you, no. But who’s crying now? The New York Times reported yesterday …

  • When TV Is Better Than TV

    News just in today that News International ordered the deletion of boatloads of emails. Two weeks ago thereabouts I was supposed to go to a half-day long small business session at the Santa Fe Community College, but while talking to my pal David D’Arcy on the telephone from New York, he advised me that the …

  • Why I Want To Go To Singapore Today

    Cool Hunting. Not yesterday, tomorrow or next week. Because this great shop called Blackmarket not only has pencils I am coveting as a way back to writing by hand – yes, one of those practices that we novelty techies (i.e., people for whom technology has saved our lives and changed our lives but ruined our …