Distractions are the nemesis of focus, and focus is what we need to consistently and effectively complete tasks and projects so that we can achieve our goals.
We met online. He was from West Virginia; I'm from New Jersey. He was looking for Happily Ever After. I was looking for something to do Saturday nights.
Put hallucinogens in stamp adhesives to make sending mail fun again.
Dear Hackers: What did you get from assaulting my e-mail account? Nothing. No one fell for your foolish ploy. What did I get? I got an amusing day catching up with friends and the therapeutic opportunity to clean up my contacts.
Twenty three percent of children have had their pre-birth scans uploaded to the internet by their parents and seven percent of babies have had an email address created for them by their parents.
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I recently received two frightening politically inspired e-mails from friends, intended to sway the votes in this midterm election. The information was pure propaganda used to instill fear and manipulate voters.
Given Facebook's confusing privacy settings, "Download Your Information" seems like an apology to users. But it's not a particularly good one. It's as if FB made us chug beers until we puked on ourselves, but then handed us an Altoid.
Magenta continues to forge ahead in the mobile market. Today the company announced the new myTouch smartphone and the continued expansion of its next ...
When did it become carte blanche to narcissistically flood an acquaintance with e-mail detailing grossly disappointing, intimate personal episodes? Is it a form of "virtual therapy"?
Are your e-mails being ignored and phones calls not returned? Are you inviting clients to your events, parties and presentations and not receiving the simple courtesy of a response?
Let's face it. We just don't have enough female high profile racists in this world. Frankly, I don't want to look at a fat, bald, chubby Glenn Beck or a prescription-pill-popping Rush Limbaugh.
There are plenty of people I'm friends with only through social networking. They need to know that I've died, too. I'd hate to have them think I defriended them.
During the course of the last year or so, I have detected a trend in corporate life that bears momentary scrutiny, then universal action by anybody wh...
While some critics have had mixed feelings, Apple has sold more iPad's this weekend than it did when the iPhone debuted and took 74 days to hit a million in sales.
In order to stay within budgetary parameters, many of the key provisions in the Act don't take effect until 2014 -- a full two years after the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it.
Steve's story illustrates the dark side of information in the 21st century and confirms our need to ensure that the information that is spread through cyberspace is both timely and accurate.
If you want to reach your consumers in the internet age, tell the youngsters in the office that you're kickin' it old school with USPS.
Google Buzz is a week old and it has set the social networking ecosystem into a frenzy. Many opinions are polarized -- love it or hate it.
The increasing flood of e-mail hitting your inbox can lower the guard of even the most cautious person. In the rush to keep up with important notes, i...
It is my understanding that by the time we get to Web 4.0 everything we do will be up in the cloud. All our writing, our spreadsheets, our photos, our...
This news arrived via e-mail just this morning: Canon USA wants me to Wrap Up All My Holiday Shopping right now, and has many ways for me to save money.
Email is one of the central means of communication in our increasingly connected world, but as helpful as it can be, we can become a slave to it.
In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Such grim statistics abound in John Fre...
When we rely on e-mails to do business, we risk misunderstanding what our colleagues are really thinking. An e-mail can't replace a phone conversation.
