Wordle Makes Your Words Sexy

In catching up with feeds from my favorite design blogs, I came across a post over on SimpleBits about a new tag-cloud generator that has pretty much blown me away all morning. Wordle takes a block of your text, a URL, an RSS feed or a del.icio.us user tag group and generates an amazing [...]

The End of an Era…and the Beginning of Possibilities.

Today was Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft.  That simple statement of fact is really pretty incredible.  I realize that they are very different in what they did, but I cannot help but think of this as being similar to when Washington left the White House.  One cast off tyranny , bringing freedom to a [...]

Observations from New York [Part 1]: Small Town to the Big City, a Sociological Perspective

Just last night, I returned from a four day trip to New York: my first visit to the City That Never Sleeps and I must say I found that nickname to be very descriptive of my trip there. My original purpose for going was to attend the Online Media Marketers Assoc. (OMMA) Social Conference [...]

Facebook… Is it Up, Down, or Somewhere In Between?

At first I thought it was our sometimes-screwy internet connection at work, but I’m getting reports from friends and colleagues all over the US that  Facebook is either not loading, loading super slow or not allowing them to navigate away from their homepage in the site.  Anyone else having issues?
I also got an email about [...]

Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good… Read It!

Monday afternoon, I returned home from work to discover Sarah Lacy ’s new book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good awaiting retrieval in my mailbox…it is the first package I’ve gotten at my new apartment so I was naturally pretty excited right off the bat. But I did not yet realize the emotional [...]

Proximity to Ozone Hole Causes Space-Time Continuum Rift over Australia… iPhone Hysteria to Ensue

All the world is abuzz with the news of Apple releasing the iPhone 3G on July 11th. (Which, I may note is inconveniently before my July 15th payday) and apparently the fervor over the product in Australia has reached such monumental levels that the folks over News.com.au forgot the number of months in a year. [...]

Facebook Adds Profile Pictures to Quick Search

Over the past few months, it seems Facebook has been making lots of minor changes to its Quick Search box in the top left of the site to make it easier to find your friends more quickly. So far I have loved the changes, especially since I can now see Group and Fan [...]

How to Hulu

I’ve been talking about Hulu to a lot of people lately…after being initially critical, I have come to love it. It has allowed me to watch the entire season of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (may it rest in peace) and every episode of Arrested Development. So in my mind, Hulu is [...]

StumbleUpon Thinks I am a Lazy Internet Geek

I saw the above maintenance page for StumbleUpon which says "We’ll be right back! In the mean time why don’t you go outside and play for awhile" just a moment ago and thought "Ha, that is kind of funny…playing outside rather than on the internet!" And then I realized that earlier today I [...]

My Internet Addictions

I have known for a long time that I am a tad addicted to the internet…but it is only recently that I’ve begun to identify the sites that I really depend on for my sanity. I think that I compulsively monitor and use these sites…something that may not be healthy.

Gmail - Seriously, who [...]