In All Reality

We often don’t think about what would happen to our online content (created, bookmarked, or otherwise) if the services we use went away. Smashing Magazine had an incident recently that got me thinking about the trust we put in our favorite service and content providers, and how we’ve yet to experience the Internet equivalent of a mass extinction.

An examination of one of the perils of using social media at the forefront of corporate or personal branding. Cripsin Porter + Bogusky recently committed an industry faux pas that cost them credibility and disrupted their happy-times Twitter feed on their site.

After some shameless critiquing of the less-admirable speakers at BigOmaha, it’s time to give some props to those presenters that really made the conference worthwhile. Exemplary businessmen, social activists, straight-talkers, community advocates, and wine-lovers; an inspirational collective to say the least.

Going to school at Missouri State University, I always ended up riding the shuttles since a lot of my classes were downtown in the design building; this is a good 10 minute drive from the main campus.  During my travels on the Bearline, the drivers would inevitable have NPR going over the intercom system.  I…