The Good, The Bad, The Spin

I recently converted to Gmail and it wasn’t exactly painless. It was a move based on principle. SBC Yahoo announced, in a somewhat Draconian manner, that it was going to be displaying ads on the Yahoo Mail interface. I was never keen on the Yahoo interface and used this news as a springboard to switch to Gmail. I had two Gmail accounts already and figured that since Gmail is free (with its text advertisements) and Yahoo’s DSL email, which I pay for, displays full graphic ads, it was time for change. Plus I needed to better separate business and personal email accounts. (more…)

An example of why our country suffers a worldwide PR problem. A Nevada local attempts to diversify the spirit of the U.S. Senate and gets heckled for his efforts.

I hope you like the new site. The original theme was too difficult to look at, plus it was buggy. Fortunately Wordpress themes are aplenty, so it was easy to plug in a new look with just a few clicks.

Which brings me too… upcoming posts. I’ve been on this kick about new media and public relations for about four years now. My Internet experience is about as old as the technology itself—or at least its popular use. I got my first email account, which is still alive and cluttered with thousands of spam emails, in 1990. Online shenanigans commenced. (more…)