by Bill Wren on August 24, 2011
What the world really needs is poetry in posts. Seriously. Keep in mind, when we use the word poetry we usually mean it in one of two ways. There is the very technical use when we are talking about something like a Shakespearean sonnet. But there is also the much more common use, in the [...]
by Bill Wren on July 26, 2011
I found myself wondering if Google might be the first company to actually get social media by focusing on the word social and realizing something was lacking in a big way in the world of social networks and technology generally. This was after having watched Andrew Keen’s interview about Google+ with Vic Gundotra (Google’s VP [...]
by Bill Wren on December 14, 2010
I took a look at my analytics to see what posts were the most popular here during the year. And I made a list of them. I find it interesting looking back at the past year to see that my focus on social media drooped a bit somewhere during the summer as my focus was [...]
by Bill Wren on July 20, 2010
The Devil’s Dictionary – 21st century edition In 1911, American writer Ambrose Bierce published “The Devil’s Dictionary.” Bierce claims it began it in 1881. It was made up of words reinterpreted by Bierce, “… lampooning cant and political doublespeak,” as Wikipedia puts it. Generally, I don’t like the trite negativism of things that are cynical. [...]
by Bill Wren on February 26, 2010
There are loads of books and gazillions of web sites and blogs on social media. You could spend the rest of your life reading about it – the data, the theories, the what-have-you. But if you really want to understand social media you can cut to the chase and read just one guy: Kurt Vonnegut. [...]
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