by David | May 24, 2012 | eating
Remember the golden days of social media, when you could call a tweetup for no good reason at all and the best and brightest would just show up and hang out? Well, they’re back. It’s lunchtime in America and the economy’s turning a corner. People...
by David | May 18, 2012 | media, photo, technology, Uncategorized
It’s the eve of the Facebook IPO, a few weeks after the Instagram sale, and I’m still trying to figure out Pinterest. Is it three syllables or two? But seriously, what does a wildly-popular site built on appropriating other peoples’ images mean for...
by David | Apr 13, 2012 | media, science!, working
So we were hiring an intern. Hiring might be a strong word since we’re not planning to pay this intern, but I digress. So I’m reviewing resumes and sometimes if somebody looks promising, I check out his or her Twitter account. It is at least in part a...
by David | Oct 21, 2010 | culture, economics, technology, urbanism
I was chatting with Boston fixture Joselin Mane and LBS Elder Eric Leist at Social Media Breakfast (organized by the estimable Bob Collins) this morning while pondering the use of altitude information by Foursquare, we stumbled on an interesting question: Location...
by David | Apr 4, 2010 | culture, media, technology
I started the passover season with the first five plagues of social media, and despite a considerable transportation delay incurred by of all things a flood, I’m back with a few more plagues this Sunny Easter morning. To refresh your memory: Spam Corporate...