Tag Archives: communication

the Internet, our culture, and accomplishment

I’ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers for the past few days, and I love it. I loved The Tipping Point, wasn’t quite as enamored with Blink, so I’m glad to be back in the fan club. In case you’re not familiar with the premise of Gladwell’s newest book, he examines people who are incredible [...]

brightkite and twitter

I really like using Twitter. In fact, I can think of a number of reasons people might benefit from the service. I have seen direct, positive impacts in my own life because I’m on it fairly regularly, and though I don’t think it’s the perfect service for everyone, it’s a pretty good one for [...]

women, discussion lists, and communication technology

I’ve said before that I’m not a big fan of discussion lists. I think they have their place, and I check in about once a week to see what’s going on, but I do most of my professional online networking in the realm of blogs. Sometimes, a blog will point me to a current [...]