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Ladies, We Are Only Hurting Ourselves.

There was another Twitter fight last night. This time, over the fact that a mommyblogger is going to the White House to discuss flexibility in the workplaces. Apparently she is not representative enough, not replicable, too successful... oh, and probably too tall and skinny to…

Location-Based Networking Is Coming, Get Ready

You may have heard the recent hullabaloo (love that word) about Please Rob Me. If not, get this: the site gathers check-ins from Foursquare and Twitter that blatantly show you are not home and your house is open and ready for robbing.Scary, right?Not so much.…

Just Say No to Mafia Wars!

OK, listen, I know we are all freaked by the new Facebook user interface. And with good reason. Some of it seems like they just went, "oh yeah, we forgot we needed that!" and stuffed it in their suitcase last minute and had to sit…

Building Community

So remember the other day when I said there were a ton of reasons why I blog?Well, in the very beginning, 4 years ago, which is like eons ago in technology years, this blog was just a diary for me. Plain and simple. But it…

What’s Your Story?

Recently I got an interesting email from Leslie Flinger, waxing poetically about the subject of... writing. It sparked an interesting discussion and I will let Leslie talk about it at length sometime since it was her topic - but what really happened for me was…

Watching Your Mouth Online

Oddly enough, right before I saw this article come across Twitter, I had several in-depth conversations with friends in real life about the boundaries and sometimes lack thereof within social media, and how disturbing it can be to watch sometimes. I have a close friend…