When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called “Big Silver Robot,” it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month.
Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a [...]
All about writing more
Five
February 1, 2010
Street by street, block by block
January 8, 2010
Back in the early days of grad school, when questions about the future of online advertising came up, I was bullish about the future of location-based mobile advertising that would by contextually relevant to the content you were viewing and the place you were sitting.
I was wrong about a big piece of how this would [...]
We are all technologists now
January 7, 2010
A company launches a new phone, or is rumored to likely be planning to launch a fancy tablet computer, or a new browser, or upgrading its mobile data network, and thousands (millions?) of us have something to say about it.
Really?
What do we know about technology, business, strategy, and the machinations of multinational corporations?
A lot, apparently, [...]
About that resolution
January 6, 2010
Funny thing about writing is that it used to be much easier.
Somewhere around 1991, I became one of those kids who didn’t have their textbook with them in class, but always had a spiral-bound notebook with all sorts of strange numbers and notations on the covers, and nothing but my guts spilled inside, in free [...]