Over the past several months many people have asked me about my opinion on Paul Boag’s article on Smashing Magazine about The Inconvenient Truth About SEO. I decided to share my email to one of my colleagues detailing my take on the article. Regarding the article you sent, very stimulating read, and thanks for asking …
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There’s no question that technology has made it easier to be distracted – jumping from tab to tab in your web browser or checking email as you wait in line at Starbucks. Second-screen TV viewing (where viewers simultaneously surf the net while watching a program) has become so common that networks have developed apps to …
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Like many kids these days, my 9-year-old daughter has a number of iOS hand-me-downs, ranging from old iPads to iPhones that are no longer activated. To me, these were just cool (“free”) toys to give her so that she could play games and have fun. At the time it didn’t occur to me it would …
Let me set up a situation for you. There’s a company event coming up, and the person in charge of planning it has been sending out email updates to everyone all day long – often several an hour. It would be one thing if this person was trying to put out fires, but most of …
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This is a very cool Steve Jobs interview video that shows him interacting with an early team at NeXT.
Where would you be without your technology skills? Think about it. Digital convergence has affected various professions, narrowing the divide between what used to be totally different skill sets. 20 years ago if you needed a graphic designer, you would go to a large marketing agency. Today, you can choose from a huge selection of …
We’ve all seen them. The ubiquitous smiley face, with a colon for eyes, and the left parenthesis as a smile 🙂 It’s called an emoticon; a combination of the words emotion and icon. They are used everywhere in our virtual worlds, conveying gestures and moods that can’t normally be expressed in type. The most common …
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Do emoticons, internet slang, and texts affect the way we communicate? Even just 15 years ago, I wasn’t texting and web chatting at the rate I am today. It wasn’t that the technologies weren’t available – they were – but only a very few early adopters used them regularly. Today, however, nearly everyone I know …
