State of the Union high point?
Sometimes the best part of a speech isn’t the one with the brilliant metaphor, the side-splitting joke or the devastating retort. It’s the part where the speaker makes a case plainly but eloquently, and where the drama comes from the clash of ideas instead...Typo in an inbound link? Redirection to the rescue!
Jump ahead to the solution to my problem Every Sunday, when my cartoon gets posted on ReadWriteWeb, I head on over to have a look and join whatever conversation’s going on. Today’s visit was much the same thing… until I noticed a little wonkiness: a...Traversing the Mailbox Hierarchy: the lost journals
Recently, a team of skilled Internet (small-e) explorers set out to find some trace of well-known adventurer, bon vivant and conversationalist Mail.app. After chasing down several false leads (one of which ended with a grisly discovery: the frozen, lifeless body of Eudora for Mac OS X Lion), they found this tattered journal, buried under a simple cairn of stacked BCC messages.
Storify for WordPress – brought to you, apparently, by Gina Trapani and me
If you haven’t checked out Storify yet, you’re missing out on a treat. This curation service allows you to seek out Tweets, Facebook updates, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, blog posts and more – and then weave them together to tell the social media story behind a particular topic.
Al Gore on SOPA and the free Internet
“There is hardly anything more important to getting the right things done than to save and protect the vibrancy and freedom of the Internet. The Internet is bringing life back to democracy.” It’s an off-the-cuff answer, and mostly nowhere near...
Why, yes — I’d LOVE to speak at your event
Public speaking and speechwriting: the essential guides
Looking for advice on public speaking, speechwriting and leadership communications? Here are some of my most comprehensive posts, on topics that people ask me about most often.
