The Truth About Author Platforms
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
A few years back, proving your platform meant whipping out your big black book of press clipping. You know, the ones that proved you could get into the media at will. Not any more.
nytimes.com | Wyatt Mason | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Shortly after my girlfriend and I decided to rent a New Hampshire summer house together in 2007, we made a vexing discovery: Internet access wasn't go...
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutt...
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A radical Muslim cleric with suspected links to al-Qaida considered himself a confidant of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychia...
Matt Dunn | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology
The reality is that Election Day 2010 is one year away. It's time for campaigns to start gearing up, and interactive needs to play a bigger role than it did in 2008 or 2009.
Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Not-for-profit financial organization NACHA, which oversees an electronic payment system called the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network, has issued...
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
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.
mashable.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology
While Generation Y may believe that social media is for narcissists, a new behavioral study shows that the same generation spends more time on social ...
Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Technology
If you follow enough of the chatter about social media and tech, you'll pick up on a recurring trend: we love killing things off. The Wall Street J...
WSJ | Posted 10.15.2009 | Technology
Want to know how your email usage stacks up? The results of our informal email survey provide some food for thought (though clearly not much science)...
AP | R.B. FALLSTROM, AP Sports Writer | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
ST. LOUIS (AP)--The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative...
Rob Kall | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media
Crossposted from OpEdNews.com Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture, since cuneiform, then writing were introduced. Em...
Wall Street Journal | JESSICA E. VASCELLARO | Posted 10.11.2009 | Technology
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over. In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold--ser...
wired.com | Posted 10.07.2009 | Technology
A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found...
AP | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley began his new career on a Florida political talk radio, three years after a lurid scandal ru...
Bob Franken | Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy
As another in my series of vital public services, I am interpreting the language of electronic mail... what the words actually mean.
Keith Thomson | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
If you have a computer, you've probably noticed the torrent of right-wing FWDed emails. Curious about the origins of these FWDs? I enlisted a systems analyst and followed the digital trails backward.
Peter Scheer | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
Many elected officials have become proficient at using technology to thwart public access to government. Why not, instead, use technology to enhance transparency and accountability?
Zondra Hughes | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
I really miss asking you about your day. And hearing how you planned to make our world just a little brighter. The Twitter updates just doesn't seem the same to me.
Blaise Nutter | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
2008: Obama's team was frequently praised for keeping on message, and keeping that message consistent and professional. Now, they display an inability to craft a clear, concise message.
Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living
We have a transformative opportunity in moments when our rage impels us to lash out in retaliation.
Anne Hill | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
To gauge the pulse of the nation, I just step into my town's post office and see what strange things the mail has brought.
Eli Davidson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
Do you find yourself sinking under the blaze of busy? Are papers marching across your desk in such a mad frenzy that your mind is goes blank the mome...
ABC News | KIM KOMANDO | Posted 08.11.2009 | Business
Spam is the bane of computer users everywhere, accounting for more than 90 percent of e-mail. And, now, cell phones are getting spam....
Jonathan Fields | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books