Techno Frenemies

Techno Frenemies

How long did it take to perfect the smoke signal and establish the written alphabet? In the game of marketing, this ever-shifting technology is our greatest friend and our worst enemy. We look like visionary heroes to our clients when we create an embedded Twitter feed that auto-substitutes a ser

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Word of the year is ... unfriend

Word of the year is … unfriend

The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "unfriend" - as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook - its word of the year. Oxford University Press USA, in a blog post, said "unfriend", a verb, had beaten netbook, sexting, paywall, birther and death panel for the hon

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Superhero Facebook Status Updates

Superhero Facebook Status Updates

What if Super heroes used social media?

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The Key Punchers Nightmare (an Ode to us all)

Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bedsheet, still I sat there doing spreadsheets: Having reached the bottom line, I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store. On

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