Category Archives: Audio/Video

Why Internet Dating is Like Buying a Used Car – And Why I Hate Them Both!

I never imagined in a million years that I would ever find myself single again, and especially at my age. My (ex)wife and I were introduced on a blind date by her sister in 1996 and were two of the …

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To what extent should media expose the brutal truth!

So if anyone saw the news in the past week. You might have caught the Boston Marathon. And how there was unfortunately multiple bombings at the finish line. It seems like anywhere you turned you were constantly being informed and …

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Will the Printed Book Ever Become Extinct? Let’s Hope Not!

I’m a member of Generation X. My heydays were the eighties and nineties. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that I belong to the generation that owns the dubious distinction of being on the forefront …

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“Harlem Shake:” The Rise and Fall of a Meme

Remember a few weeks ago when those “Harlem Shake” videos on YouTube were going around? To refresh your memory, sometime around early February amateur web comedian George Miller came out with a compilation video on YouTube that featured a a …

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Ideas Online: Kickstarter and Crowd-Funding

How many times have you heard one of your friend’s say something like, “Oh man, I’ve got a great idea for a videogame/app/website.” I can’t name a close friend who hasn’t said that statement and then followed it up with …

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Computers Complicate Our Lives Through Multitasking

Computers were originally introduced to help un-complicate our lives and make tasks easier.  They would free up our time of researching, which would ultimately allow us to do more and perform more adequately.  According to Brian Hayes in Automation on

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Has Kickstarter Changed the Way the Movie Industry Works?

To many fans that have lost a favorite television show and have longed for a conclusion movie to be made but there seems to be no studio interest in making one, Kickstarter campaigns have changed all of that. Kickstarter is …

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Click Trajectories and How You Can Make Millions Being Their Guru!

Two years ago I accomplished one of my bigger life goals; I wrote and published a book. It’s called Recessions End – Stimulus for the Rest of Us and although it didn’t make me rich or famous, it was a …

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The Ever Dominating Google Potentially Threatens Our Future

In How Google Dominates Us, James Gleick begins to describe the process of how Google tries to complete our sentences and enter our minds.  Although technology has not progressed that far yet, Google founders begin to describe how they …

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When Social Media, Advertising, and Consumers Collide: SXSW

Have you ever heard of SXSW or South by Southwest? It’s a massive arts festival in Austin, Texas that runs every year for what seems to be a random number of days and typically garners big names in emerging genres …

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