Joining FourSquare is Pointless
I’m a fan of new social networks; I really am. I’m the first to jump on the bandwagon of an innovative social network. About 6 months ago, I played around with FourSquare. (For those that are unaware of FourSquare, it’s a social network designed around geo-location; basically informing your friends where you are at all times.) [...]
5 Reasons Why Your Facebook Brand / Fan Page Sucks
Part of my job is to manage a handful of company brand pages, some more successful than others due to the demographic of the readership. As I work with Facebook brand pages all day, it has become very obvious to me that the majority of brand / fan pages are clueless when it comes to [...]
4 Web-Comics that Will Devour Hours of Your Time
Growing up, there were very few cartoons in the newspaper that I made sure to catch on a regular basis. The only one that seems worth the time was The Far Side (created by Gary Larson). Its twisted sense of humor was appealing and seemed miles above the other scribblings in the paper. Fast [...]
Why there is only one timeline on Lost
I’ve heard numerous explanations on why the current season of Lost seems to be operating on two different timelines. The most popular scenario seems to be that there are two distinct, separate timelines in play; one being the new 2004 timeline where the Losties landed safely in LAX and the other being the current 2007 Losties still fighting the [...]
4 Kickass Websites that I Adore
I use a handful of tech oriented websites on a daily basis (for my job). Outside of the realm of strictly tech, here are some lesser known, but extremely useful sites that I utilize constantly during my day.
8 Things I’ve Learned About Living in Los Angeles
I’ve been living in Los Angeles for a little over a year now. You can read a bit more about my exodus from South Carolina out here in this post, but here are 8 things that I’ve come to understand since I arrived:
My Last Four Days
As I sat in the dim room at the Cornerstone hospice watching my mother cope with the continuous stream of brutal pain from her final bout of cancer, I can’t see my mother anymore. She’s frail, tired and wisps in and out of consciousness. She sees us and hear us, but has lost the ability [...]
The Twitmaster General
I manage six different Twitter accounts. While that may seem like an overload of tweets, it’s actually quite simple. Five are related to the websites I help manage. (In all fairness, I can’t lay claim to the nickname inception of Twitmaster General. It was coined by a couple guys at work in jest to all [...]