The Internet is Our Catnip
When the majority of your Facebook friends work in PR or politics, you get invited to extremely random events and groups. Over the weekend, someone invited me to the launch for a time management book, 168 Hours. This invite was interesting because part of the launch involved an experiment to track your time for one week, based on the concept that there are 168 hours in each week, and provided an Excel file to track your time in 30 minute increments... Read More
Disconnect
This weekend, I traveled to Indianapolis for the wedding of a good friend. Almost as soon as I arrived, I realized that I left the charger to my phone back in Alexandria. Since the home where I was staying didn’t have wireless, my first reaction was, “Oh no. What about Twitter!?!” After realizing how ridiculous that reaction was and turning off the phone to conserve battery life (no one else had a charger that would work), I looked... Read More
‘Lost’ In a Nutshell
Have you ever watched an episode of Lost when someone comes in the room and says, “I’ve never watched an episode. Can you tell me what’s going on?” After explaining that it is absolutely impossible to explain the plot line because nothing makes sense, it is generally best to give said person the first season on DVD and say, “See ya in a few days. You’ll be hooked.” Now someone has come up with an eight minute... Read More
The Transparency of Obama’s Web Use
During the 2008 campaign, Obama pledged to have the most transparent administration ever. This was one of the first promises he broke by not posting bills to the web for a full five days before he signed them. It appears, he is also not as transparent with his digital media prowess as the administration claimed: Well, first of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I noticed that young people — they’re very busy with all these... Read More
