Year: 2009
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The Stand, playing out on Twitter
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I’m a big fan of Stephen King’s The Stand – part sci-fi, part horror, mostly a wonderfully engaging view of what happens to a few survivors of a man-made apocalypse.…
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Music rights are killing good TV shows
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Image via Wikipedia Mike Masnick at TechDirt has repeatedly identified cases where the difficulty of obtaining rights to music played in TV shows is either holding up or killing attempts…
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If I swing like this…
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http://www.youtube.com/get_player … you might think I actually knew what I was doing. Actually played a lot better than I thought I would, which made it a lot more fun. In…
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“Golfing” for the next few days
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last summer, my brother and I told our Dad that we’d take him golfing for his 60th birthday. The weekend in which we actually…
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Nintendo DSi is a big hit
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Both boys had birthdays last month (nine and seven!), and they set their sights on the new Nintendo DSi. That was a bit pricey, so we gave the boys a…
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In case Google doesn’t work out…
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All I need to do is push “1”, and serious money awaits: https://clients4.google.com/voice/embed/embedPlayer
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Twitter: Topical, Polemical and Short
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Pulitzer-prize winning historian Bernard Bailyn: Twitter is a one-man show. One has complete freedom of expression, including, if one chooses, the freedom to be scurrilous, abusive, and seditious; or, on…
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Eight Lessons Learned as a Brand on Twitter
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Back in January, we set up the official Blogger account on Twitter. We had a general idea of what we hoped to accomplish – better interaction with passionate users, quick…
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Re-reading The Dark Tower
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On my way out the door to SXSW, I walked past the bookshelf in our bedroom and took The Dark Tower off the shelf. I originally read the entire Dark…