by Kevin Smith I really mean it when I say that Twitter got me my job. About a year and a half ago, I started to realize that my job dissatisfaction was rapidly rising. I was joining the ranks of people who read Dilbert for the empathy more than the humor. Several months of combing job boards, sendi...

Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

Do you remember which ones were your favorite books in school? Were there any? Kidding aside, were they the ones filled with facts? Was there a particular subject matter that interested you? What was it about it that grabbed - and retained - your attention? Was it the writing? Perhaps the visuals? N...

So with the news on Wednesday that Dell was laying off workers around the globe, but wouldn't commit to how many, or where these poor fuckers will soon be queuing up for food stamps... I went hotfoot over to the......

It's amazing how video continues to be so dominant all over the Internet.  For this, we have YouTube to thank.  But as that category killer has grown and become an even greater force in web entertainment, something interesting has been happening back at the network ranch.  NBC ...

Good Evening: Without much more to go on than just the afterglow surrounding yesterday’s stock market rally, our capital markets struggled during most of Wednesday’s session. Stocks did manage to hold on to yesterday’s gains, but it seemed as if investors were waiting for more info...

Quietly, without trumpets, fan fare, ticker tape parades or walks outside of the limo that give the secret service heart attacks, President Barack Obama has been changing the way the executive branch of the government does business online.  Not only that he's influencing the other branches, in part...

As expected, Facebook has launched the redesigned Facebook home page this afternoon. Here’s how it looks: A few thoughts and first impressions: The default “filter” is “News Feed,” which appears to be all shared items by friends. You can filter your stream by network, p...

Google has long claimed that its motto is "Don't be evil". But with its latest development, I can't help feeling that it's sliding quickly down a very slippery slope. That's because Google now allows advertisers to target their ads according to visitors' web histories, or what it calls "interest-bas...

Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...