Economist “Did you know?”
A great video from the Economist. It focuses on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology.

Geek Gift Guide 2009
Last year I put together my first Geek Gift Guide. Take a look since most of those gifts would still make great gifts for the geeks on your list. But here is my latest list of perfect gifts for the geek in your life, or the geek in you. Paper product: Action Method Price: $5-$15

Blogazine?
This morning I came across an amazing post by Smashing Magazine entitled “The Death of the Boring Blog Post”. It’s a great post that I wish I could re-blog here, but I honestly can’t because of the way the post is designed. (go look at it!) It talks about the trend of Blogazines (blog that is designed like a magazine) not a magazine wordpress theme but rather designing a creative layout for each new blog post, based on the content itself. This requires skill, patience, dedication to the content and, most of

To RT or Not to RT?
Many people have been talking about twitter’s new RT beta feature and it my seem like most people don’t like it. But I thought I would through my 2 cents in the ring about what I think of the feature. In case you are unaware, Twitter is rolling out an official retweet feature that is in beta right now. It allows users to RT with just one click (no more copying and pasting tweets), and it provides a way for people to easily see how much their tweets are being retweeted. Now there are some obvious drawbacks to this. The new feature only lets you RT the tweet as it was originally written, you can’t modify it or add your comments. For some people this is a dra

7 Tips to Help with the Blogging Blues
Since I redesigned my blog I have gotten a lot of great compliments on it. But a lot of my friends have asked how I keep up with writing. I admit it can be very hard at times but you have to come up with ways to get over the blogging blues. One of my favorite blogs, Style Me Pretty, just launched a supplemental blog called Backstage, where they write about the in’s and out’s of blogging as a business. The blog is a great read and recently Abby Larson wrote a post about