I've wanted to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for quite some time. Since the show is the first part of the year, it was difficult to travel to Las Vegas. I'm generally at the National Association of Broadcasters annual show in April, and my travel budget doesn't cover going to Vegas twice...
Scott Brown wrote a humorous article in Wired Magazine regarding how our generation would deal with depression the likes that have only been seen by our great-grandparents during the "Great Depression." The question that comes from this half-hearted look into the future is what are we doing to prepare for...
It is a rare occurrence that I would stumble across a timely topic. However, it seems that my theoretical academic discussion has turned into a real-world threat. I've been working all day, and I finished eating dinner when I see the warning issued by Twitter. The questions that I asked...
Twitterkins lead me down another thought path when he tweeted me "who'd impersonate me when they'd gain nothing? Do identity thieves twitter? Like, to make it 'look good?'" I really don't have a good answer to this question. Also, I figured that this question deserved more than a simple 140 character...
I was having a conversation with my wife about the Twilight Zone. Every year the Sci-Fi channel as a 24-hour marathon of most of the episodes. My wife was telling me about her favorite episode "The Changing of the Guard" and how it makes her cry everytime she sees it....
I want to apologize for not posting in the past couple of weeks. It seems that my life as a retail superstar has interfered with my ability to act as an academic, let alone a public academic. So, I might as well attempt to write something before the end of...
As a grad student, I often have a ton of books spread out throughout three to six locations. I can never remember where they are and I always have a tough time organizing them. Therefore, when I heard about Library from Delicious Monster, it seemed that I could finally have...
It was hard for me to start writing this week. Suffering from a combination of writer's block and a series of allergies made it tough to put words on the screen. However, there came from the Internet a significant amount of chatter that the writer's block or sickness didn't matter...
I just wanted to use this post to highlight some of the key points from the first day/day zero of the National Communication Association 94th Annual Convention in San Diego. 1.) Follow the Boy Scout rule, "Be Prepared": I had every intention to keep a hardcore Twitter stream with the...
I talked with one of my friends, and I found out something shocking. I've had many computers. The majority of them have simply died on me (5 out of 9, what can I say? I'm hard on computers). However, another point that has come to light is that it was...
