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New Media as Community Theater—All the World’s a Stage

April 1st, 2008 · 14 Comments

I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater. What I love isn’t so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the players’ infectious energy for taking risks. I was reminded of this a few weekends ago when I went to see a local production of Godspell.
Because I have [...]

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Tags: Business · Pop Culture · Social Media · Technology

What Is a Friend?

March 16th, 2008 · 34 Comments

My friend and colleague Shelley and I are taking our two girls to a company “junket” we’ll both be attending next month in southern California. (We’re calling the two of them the MarketingProfs “Web 3.0″ team.)
The girls are 9 and 11 and live, respectively, in Texas and Massachusetts. Kinsey (the 9-year-old) and Caroline (age 11) [...]

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Tags: Children · Social Media · Technology

Me and TomTom—True Love Always

March 7th, 2008 · 29 Comments

Around Christmas, I met TomTom. We’ve been inseparable ever since.
TomTom, if you don’t know, is a portable GPS navigation system. It mounts on the car dashboard, and its voice commands guide you to your destination. For someone like me—I get lost finding my way back to the table after a visit to the restaurant bathroom—it’s [...]

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Is 18 the New 8?

February 28th, 2008 · 24 Comments

In her book released last fall, Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfeld slips chickpeas into her chocolate chip cookies and purees butternut squash into her mac and cheese. The general premise is that kid food is fried and white. But if you can slip in something on the sly—say, cauliflower into mashed potatoes, or sweet potato into [...]

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Tags: Children · Food · Parenting · Pop Culture · Technology

How I Invented Blogging

February 13th, 2008 · 12 Comments

The fabulous Toby Bloomberg solicited this from me more than a year ago for a site she was publishing, Blogger Stories. I asked her to let me reprint a modified version here to answer a question I’ve been getting a lot lately, “So how’d you get into blogging, anywho?”
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When I was a kid growing [...]

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Tags: Secrets · Social Media · Technology

In-Your-Facebook

February 7th, 2008 · 19 Comments

I got an email from my friend Sharon this morning. She had recently signed up for a Facebook account and had just been “friended” by someone she didn’t know very well. Actually, she didn’t know him at all. She asked something like, “So who is he? Is he a creep? What does he want?” Then, [...]

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Tags: Parenting · Social Media · Technology