Though I watch little broadcast television, I was well aware of Steve Wozniak's recent appearance on Dancing With the Stars on ABC, but the whole reality TV show genre is one I find revolting as "nasty" (or the possibility thereof) is the way the judges ensure they rile up the crowd and get people t...

How often do you go into a coffee shop, are at a convention center or in a hotel lobby, open up your laptop or take out your smartphone, and log on to what you assume is the open, public Wifi? Well guess what? It might be...or it might not. A "man-in-the-middle" attack might be going on at that mome...

After dozens of conversations about saving money with peers and colleagues who have home or small businesses negatively impacted by the global economic downturn, I always and immediately offer up strategies that I use which might benefit them also and here's one I use to save money and engage in muc...

Hollywood stars, sports celebrities, and even those with their 15 minutes of fame, are too frequently descended upon by the paparazzi as those people try to capture or record some sighting, try to get a rise out of someone that they can record, and look for that titillating response which will make ...

Back in the day when the internet was born and I leapt on it as this cool new thing, I read everything I could get my hands on from computer scientists and other thought leaders at the time. An area that was extensively explored in white papers and articles were the benefits of location and presence...

Now that we enjoy have access to 24 hour cable news channels, talk radio, blogs, online news, and a myriad of locations to get our news and information, it's getting harder to connect the dots. As a consequence, I still turn to CNN, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times as trusted...

When I examine my own behaviors with the use of social media and online activity, I'm often struck by how immersed I need to be in order to gain Twitter "followers," keep my blog pageviews and RSS reader numbers high and, most importantly, to truly develop real or meaningful relationships that are a...

Just had an experience that could have gone awry if not for an empowered customer service rep who took action and turned a negative into something positive by listening to me and having the authority to do the right thing. For a couple of years I've been enjoying Parallels, the virtual machine to ru...

As social media continues to accelerate, many are discussing the "death of blogging" and the "rise of lifestreaming". Marc Canter has a proposal for a DiSO (Distributed Social Networking) which is well explained here at Read/Write Web. There is NO question that aggregating all we do online is a wort...

After more than nine years and nearly $6,000 spent with DirecTV, I cancelled the service today since I've chosen another route for obtaining HD programming. The problem is that more and more companies are making it very difficult to cancel (AOL and now Vonage are the best examples of creating barrie...