I've aspired to zero inbox for years, but it took a new member of the Social Signal team to help bring that aspiration into focus -- a team member who has utterly transformed my personal productivity. As our operations manager and my executive assistant, Morgan Brayton has reorganized our financial ...

OPEN LETTER Bamberg, February 12, 2009 To the President of the United States of America To the Citizens of the United States of America To the Members of the House of Representatives To the Members of the Senate Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast Televisio...

Today’s ALAWB09 Review: Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World by Alex Pentland Product Details * Amazon Sales Rank: #49844 in Books * Published on: 2008-10-31 * Original language: English * Number of items: 1 * Binding: Hardcover * 192 pages Are you tuned into other people's honest signals? Hon...

See if you recognize yourself here: Instead of locking antlers with the other young bucks or preparing for the fall migration, you were off trying to operate a Flip video camera with your hooves, type on a netbook without stomping it to pieces, and hold down a decent WiFi signal in the middle of the...

The other day I was having a discussion with a smart, well-informed woman who tends to be a bell-weather for Democratic talking points.  When asked about the recession, I said something like this: The story for banks, corporations, and people are all the same — everyone has too much debt, eve...

It’s not just girls, boys want to keep up with the latest trends too. We can use lessons from the workplace to help teens with homework. A new study found a link between degrading lyrics and teen sex. Teen obesity is just as deadly as teen smoking. R-rated movies are prompting teens to smoke. ...

Video genius Bruce Sharpe has just posted the video of my keynote from Feb. 21 at the Northern Voice blogging conference in Vancouver. It's my look at what makes the world of social media so damn funny. You'll laugh, you'll cry... and maybe you'll comment and let me know what you think. <!--break...

TripItGate has me thinking about how to make social network invitations more useful, less spammy, and less of a hassle. Invitations are a standard part of social network signups and usage. When you join a social network, you're typically asked to connect with friends who are already using the same s...

Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. Tactile devices, which translate sound waves into vibrations that can be felt by the skin, can help overcome...

Cowboy Bebop is a great series, and if you’ve watched it, then you’re ready for this video, which is a kickass performance of the intro. It’s definitely different, but amazingly faithful to the studio version. From wikipedia for Tank!: “Tank!” is the opening song for th...