People now have access to so much content — and have so many ways to gather news and information — that the likelihood of your corporate message penetrating the clutter is virtually nil. Instead, if you engage the audience in…

I expect something tasteful in a place of mourning and remembrance. Maybe I am old-fashioned but ads for LavaLife, who has never been the most subtle advertiser in the dating industry, on a site meant to be a memorial for…

Mark Wielgus created last year in August a mash-up script for YouTube, Amazon.com and Ebay.com and released the code for free under the Creative Commons Share Alike licensing model at his blog 45n5.com.

I am interested into data feeds and web services…

The curse of being curious is that it is very difficult to translate and communicate wonder. Having been an 8th grade science teacher and then a college professor of religious studies, I’ve faced that difficult chasm many times over the…

Digging Deep into to the Summit & When the Sleeper Wakes

I have spent the last few days, off the grid, recuperating from the “controversial” Affiliate Summit” in Las Vegas. Ironically, I found no controversy over the issues. Overall I…

I had the pleasure of hanging out with Gary Vaynerchuck of WineLibraryTV on the Monday of Affiliate Summit. Not only is he a great guy, but his enthusiasm for doing business online is black-plauge like contagious (although it doesn’t involve fleas……

I was on Twitter, looking at followers that I had not been following. (Note on Twitter they are followers, on Facebook they are friends.)

I came across Steli Efti, Supercool Principal and this take on our education system and to be…

Several months ago I played around putting together some key concepts into a slide show, or at least key concepts in the circles I talk with. I prefaced it with simple question and asked below: Can you find the hidden…

About the creation of a data portability standard for the social web to allow people to take their established profile from network A to network B, without the need for the user to recreate everything from scratch again.

GlobalScholar.com, Education Web 2.0 to put the technology and social features of the new internet age to good use for one of societies most important issues, our childrens education.