New Influencer

When a friend told me about Current TV a while back I wasn’t really impressed. “Yeah, yeah,” I thought to myself. “User-generated content on television. Big deal.” Actually, it sort of is a big deal. Basically, Current TV has a programming schedule that draws from professionally produced video pieces as well as user-generated content (or [...]

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Social Media: A New Dawn of the Internet or History Repeating Itself? The formative years of the Internet were dominated by the optimistic perspective that we could transcend our superficial attributes. No longer would sex, race or ethnicity play a dominant role in defining an individual’s voice. Rather, the quality of an interaction was measured [...]

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Boy, I have to give it to Shel Holtz: This guy has some cojones.   The SNCR annual event is right around the corner and he is compelling his blog users to register for the event through the SCNR Web site despite his close ties to Ragan.  Then again, Ragan is going to get paid regardless.  I attended [...]

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Over the past month, I’ve had a couple people in my personal network approach me about how to go about launching Web sites. In both cases, the individuals’ have had a vision for how they wanted the Web site to look, and both times it was based on other designs that had struck them. Having [...]

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Jeremiah Owyang has recently expressed his dissatisfaction with the term, social media. I agree with him on his general position, but according to Owyang, “the biggest criticisms folks have against Social Media is that Media can’t be social.” Woah…media can’t be social? Media is always social. Media is defined by the technology underlying its performance, [...]

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This happened a while back, but I never got to put it in writing back then. The title of this post was the opening question presented in the first DC-chapter meeting of the Social Media Club, moderated by Chris Heuer. As ideas flew around the room, a counter-question began forming in my head. “Isn’t media [...]

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Social Media: A New Dawn of the Internet or History Repeating Itself? The formative years of the Internet were dominated by the optimistic perspective that we could transcend our superficial attributes. No longer would sex, race or ethnicity play a dominant role in defining an individual’s voice. Rather, the quality of an interaction was measured [...]

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After much deliberation, I have decided to join the throng and launch a (gasp) blog. After hosting and managing Drift Reality for the past five years, and watching it become somewhat stagnant for the past two, I have realized that it was time for a change. I have been hesitant to launch a blog for [...]

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