Media in the New Millennium

posted by Doyle
Each year for my birthday, I spend part of the day riding one mile for every year old I am that year. Yesterday was my annual birthday ride, and since I’m getting older (or, maybe just old!) I had to go a ways: forty-seven miles, to be exact, to hit my goal (yes, [...]

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There’s lots of banter in tech circles and the media of late about net neutrality. I firmly believe this is one of the most important issues facing how we communicate today, yet it’s often misunderstood, even by by lawmakers who may be asked to determine how everything will finally shake out.
Why is net neutrality [...]

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One of the great aspects of social media is the ability for far more people than ever before to get involved in communications, but this represents a fundamental change for newspapers. Instead of printing a few letters to the editor each day, representing a tiny fraction of the readership, nearly every online story [...]

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We’ve all got ‘em—the things that make us crazy. Ever followed someone with their blinker on for 15 minutes on the freeway, and they never moved lanes? This is what I’m talking about. Five things that really bug me in the social media communities I participate in the most. I’m not really saying [...]

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I picked up my iPad on the first Saturday they went on sale at 9:15 (true to Apple customer service, everything was right on time). If you saw the news at all, you can guess it was crowded—but fun. I saw at least a half dozen friends there.
So, those of you [...]

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Gabe Explains how marketing to the new gen, social media crowd depends on recognizing their shortening attention spans.

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Dear Mr. Stephenson:
I’ve been pretty vocal with my displeasure about your company in some pretty public forums of late. I thought I’d take a moment to tell you why, as well as offer a suggestion for fixing your problem.
Here’s the issue: I hire you to provide me with one product — the voice/data service on [...]

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posted by Doyle
My daughter received a text on her cell phone (T-Mobile is our carrier, but to be clear, not responsible for this) telling her that T-Mobile was concerned about repeated attempts to access her account from an IP address in India. Wow, way to play on some fears. My daughter is in high school [...]

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Twitter must be official now — the lawyers have gotten involved.
While this may not be the first lawsuit over a tweet, it’s the first one I’ve seen (thanks to Liz Strauss for the tweet on this topic today). The suit, which is asking for $50,000 in damages, alleges a Twitter user “maliciously and [...]

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posted by Doyle
In case you missed it, more and more of us are relying on the Internet and mobile devices for information and communication (yes, I’m being sarcastic). A couple of recent events have me a little spooked, however.
iPhone users were unable to use their phones during this year’s South by Southwest due simply to [...]

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