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.) Beyond geo-location, FourSquare is loosely based around Microsoft’s achievement system for the Xbox 360. The more times you check in, the more badges you earn. About 6 days after I downloaded it, I deleted it from my iPhone.
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 attracting more fans effectively and efficiently. Here are 5 reasons why those pages aren’t as successful as they could be.
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 forward 15 years and there are tons of web-comics populating the web; many of which inspired directly from the same type of humor from the Far Side. Here are my top 4 picks:
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 good fight on the island. The cause of these two distinct timelines was the H-bomb that was detonated at the end of season 5.
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.
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 to respond to our questions due to lack of brain function. The combination of chemotherapy and radiation treatments have destroyed her bone marrow and slowly disintegrated her resistance to the tumors growing all over the insides of her body. Neurophy has spread from her feet upwards to make her skin ache to the touch and she moans in pain every time someone has to move her. She’s my mother, cruelly trapped in a dying body.
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 the Twitter accounts.)