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Please Make It Stop

February 27, 2009

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10 Ways to Deal With Social Media Gone Awry I had the bright idea this week to create a second Twitter account for myself, one to separate my ‘personal’ account from one that represents my ‘professional’ persona (don’t laugh please … it’s a work in progress). Dovetailing on this thought was another idea to see [...]

The Strumpette Videos: Breaking Ground by Stating the Obvious

January 30, 2009

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  Bill Sledzik’s blog, Tough Sledding, is one of the very few I get excited to read when a new post shows up. So it was with anticipation that I was waiting when it was announced on Tough Sledding the he and Andy Curran, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, were to release [...]

5 New Media Facts and Fallacies

January 10, 2009

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Relative newcomers facing exposure to online media appear to have adopted assumptions about the uniqueness of these technologies. With that in mind, here are five points to be considered -- basically, that media as we know it today has roots back to hunter-gatherer rock art.

The Nevada New Media Conundrum

January 4, 2009

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If blogs are good for one thing, it’s for stirring up a good shit storm. That’s been the case since blogs have been around. Daniel Solove’s book, “The Future of Reputation,” wonderfully details the more noted online controversies in the history of the Internet. And in Reno, ever since I began reading the blogs here [...]

Fruition Exaggerated: The hype and reality of site monetization

November 28, 2008

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I maintain caution in adopting new trends. The reason, as demonstrated here, is that more often than not, the rush to promote a new technology because it may (or may not) be cutting edge often overlooks something else that is critical. One example: The advent of the desktop computer was thought to put an end [...]