I’m sick of attention whores. They’re noise, and there’s way too much going on of substance to have to spend the time separating their chaff from all the important wheat out there. Unfortunately, we’ve become a culture that rewards these clowns and this week provided yet another perfect case. Continue reading
Tag Archives: LinkedIn
MIA
If you use Gmail as your primary email provider, you had a problem yesterday. Gmail went down for a lot of the day. From the thunder reverberating around the web, Twitter, and elsewhere, one would have thought the digital world had ended. Strangely, I use a Gmail account for my personal mail and never noticed a thing since I was accessing that mail via Blackberry yesterday. Aside from yet another example of how these machines are evil, sentient beings, the outage raises a bigger point in my mind. Continue reading
Filed under digital media, Reality checks
Talk To Me
- Image by luc legay via Flickr
When you’re having a conversation with your friends, do you try to sell them your latest MLM scheme? When you start up a discussion at a dinner party about the economy, is their response usually about how to position your portfolio for success NOW? I didn’t think so. So why do you, or anyone else, think that this is totally acceptable behavior in conversational media? Continue reading
Filed under Helpful Hints, Reality checks, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 