Ready or not, here it comes!

Mobile Marketing Daily reports that tablet shipments will overtake PCs in 2015. More than a geeky piece of techy news, this has real and practical implications for digital marketers everywhere. Today, not tomorrow. I present two key questions you should have already been asking a while back, but if not, you should ask now: Navigation:…

Why Voicemail Sucks!

checking my voice mail is as annoying as calling my cable company’s 800 support number.

I Am Knowledge Worker 2.0

Everytime I go into SlideShare.net, I enjoy exploring the latest presentations. There is a wealth of knowledge and information in there from top minds. Here is one I found today from Stephen Collins, a knowledge economy and knowledge work consultant, web strategist, information architect and social computing evangelist. My presentation from the Office 2.0 Conference….

Multitouch OS X video iPod coming?

I don’t usually follow Mac developments to closely, but this sounds like an interesting progress in regards to user interface. During a private meeting last month, Apple’s traditionally tight-lipped chief executive Steve Jobs all but broke the silence onthe future of the video iPod. Speaking to employees at the Apple TownHall, he said a division…

Communication Technology Works Around Censors

This is my kind of news! The Washington Post has a story on how a community in China was able to use text-messaging and cell phones to get around government censors, and stand up against the construction of a giant chemical factory. This is what technology in communication does for the world — it enables…

DomeNation: More YouTube and Politics

David All has joined with Jerome Armstrong from MyDD to start a new YouTube based weekly TV show, DomeNation. I watched the first couple episodes and thought it was well done. In DC, if you want to be a student of Internet and communications, you inevitably have to step into politics. These guys are coming…

The importance of a Chief Digital Officer & the outsourcing option

Jacob, a blogger at Silas Notes and staff member at Silas Partners highlights a blog post that “discusses the need for a Chief Digital Officer, someone who is concerned with all the digital communication of your organization.” These are considerable responsibilities. It’s a bigger job than “webmaster.” It requires both broad vision and technical insight….

WSJ Reviews Apple TV

The Wall Street Journal finaly got around to doing a review of Apple’s “Apple TV.” If you are tired of reading techy, fan-reviews from the tech sites, you might want to get the WSJ Rob Pegoraro’s perspective: Digital photos, music and video all conspire to fill up your computer — but eventually, you’ll want to…

WSJ: The Coming Exaflood

I was just made aware of a great article in January 20th of this year on the Wall Street Journal on Net Neutrality. I cant find it in the archives, and I don’t want to reprint the whole thing, but this is the gist of it: Net neutrality’s rules, price controls and litigation would prevent…

Tech Firms Push to Use TV Airwaves for Internet

This sounds like an innovative idea, if they can get it to work right. More competition in regards to Internet access and bandwith can only be a good thing. A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is…

Email and Communication: On My Radar for Today

Here are some things that came through my RSS feeds that I’m going to read today. You might find them valuable too. 4 Ways to Pick the Wrong Email Partner As a frequent participant on the receiving end of email agencysearches, I’ve seen many approaches, some that worked well for clientand agency and others that…