by Bill Wren on June 18, 2011
No matter how sophisticated technology is, it always has one big hurtle it can’t overcome: us. How we use something — how we behave — will always condition technology, either by how it is designed or how it is used. Not five minutes after talking with some friends about security on the Internet, a number [...]
by Bill Wren on February 1, 2011
This is a question I’ve been mulling over a while now. I know social media is social but I wonder if it isn’t social in a way that displaces – or perhaps the correct word is “replaces” – another form of sociability. Increasingly, I see people with their smartphones walking around talking and texting and [...]
by Bill Wren on January 7, 2011
We are only a week into the new year and already it has its Internet trend: curation. I’m particularly struck by this trend for both positive and negative reasons. I’ll get the negative one out of the way first. It’s a personal thing, the negative reason, because there is a certain irony in it. I [...]
by Bill Wren on July 29, 2010
It would appear this blog is in abeyance but au contraire … I’ve actually written quite a few posts. Unfortunately, well-intended as they may have been, they kind of sucked. So they remain offline in the half-baked stage. I had one, however, that wasn’t too bad but I decided that instead of a long, windy [...]
by Bill Wren on July 8, 2010
You’re a small business owner and you have to get on that social media thing. Everybody says so. Everything you read says so. You can’t turn around without someone asking what you’re doing with social media. And you’ve looked at it. You’ve been on Twitter and Facebook and you’ve read articles and you’ve talked to [...]
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