Geek Soap Box

It was real-time docudrama like we have never seen before, filled with an incredible volume of hyperbole and enough potential story-lines to populate a small novel.  On live television, the so-called most coveted free agent in all of sports descended from his reclusive mountaintop and informed the world as to what professional basketball franchise had [...]

Let’s face it, our lives are pretty decent, and for that we should consider ourselves blessed.  We in the United States and other nations of the “West” are not torn apart by political strife, genocide, or cataclysmic natural disasters.  For the most part, we all are able to wake up each morning, safe and sound, [...]

A few weeks ago, I received an offer from Scott Oser at the College of Association Marketing to participate in a series of Webinars tailored to the novices of the association social media set.  After a great first offering — Intro to Social Media with Deirdre Reid (with me as sidekick/color commentator) — today was [...]

This past weekend, I flew back from a brief four-day respite in Miami’s wonderful South Beach, and found myself constantly staring at an advertisement for a company called Carbonfund in my JetBlue’s 37 channels of DirectTV display. Something was just “off” about this message, I kept telling myself, not even factoring in the post-modern hypocritical [...]

Remember last year’s 4A’s Leadership Conference?  The facilities were awesome, and everyone worked hard to create a great program as always, but there was a definite undercurrent of uncertainty plaguing attendees and casting a shadow over the show.  What was happening to the business?  Were agencies going to be shut out of  “digital” (intentional use [...]

The political world remains transfixed on a small, otherwise nondescript region of upstate New York; there, a hotly contested race for state’s seat in the 20th Congressional District remains too close to call, as Republican Jim Tedisco and Democrat Scott Murphy remain deadlocked in this highest of stakes. Really?  One meager seat out of 435?  [...]

Via Metstradamus, once I saw this t-shirt I had to order it. Yes, that’s a 17 with a mustache. Eh, what the heck, it’s for charity, right?