In All Reality

Woweee… there hasn’t been a new post up here for awhile has there? Life has changed a lot, and I’m recommitting to jotting it down here.

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.

BigOmaha was really good overall, but like any major event it had its downsides. These came in the form of some presenters who seemed to be lacking in drive and focus in their talks. In this article, we’ll do a rundown of those speakers that were not-so-hot.

I thought it appropriate to give a general overview of the recent BigOmaha conference (May 7-8) with some impressions of the demographics, organization, and vibe from the crowd. I think the conference was a success overall (especially for this being its first year). Dunno if it was worth having to drive through Iowa though…

I made the journey up to Nebraska this weekend for the BigOmaha conference, fighting storms, weird directions, and Iowa roads.

There’s been a lot happening on the Web lately. Twitter is constantly in the news. There’s a guy using Craigslist to kill people. “Social Media” is now the newest trigger-happy member of the buzzword family. It raises a lot of interesting questions and observations about how our culture is being changed by this giant connecting force, and what some of the impacts of those changes may be.

Part three in the latest series of collaborative conversation exercises. In this article, writer Matthew Stublefield from SilverPen Publishing explores the relationship of design, architecture, emotion, and a deep satisfaction gained from a union of these areas.

Part 3 in the continuing series of collaborative conversation involving observations about the Internet, humanity, and influencing factors. Is this segment, we explore the potential that the Internet has given to humanity, and how this potential relates to our ideas of individuality, as well as societal and cultural change.