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Social Expedition Podcast

Confession: I hate the sound of my voice. I think I sound like a hick. But when my good friends at LunaWeb asked me to be a guest on the Social Expedition podcast, I couldn’t say no. These guys work very hard to sponsor, promote and organize BarCampMemphis, SocialCamp Memphis and the monthly social media [...]

Check In for a Good Cause

Recently I’ve been playing around with a few location-based social networking services, such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Whrrl. The goal was to do a post with a comparison of each one, which I’ll still do, but for now I want to talk about something my youngest daughter turned me onto, which enables me to check [...]

2010: I Mean it this Year. Really.

I’m never really sure how I feel about New Year’s resolutions. Many years I’ve set unrealistic goals, vague, nonspecific ones or none at all. This year there are a few things I’m determined to accomplish, so I’m going to make a more focused effort.
I’ve failed at:

Organizing 23 years of family photos. An overwhelming task, as [...]

Foursquare: It’s Deja Vu All Over Again

This 2009 conversation:
Me: Are you on foursquare?
IRL* friend: Huh?
Reminds me of this 2007 conversation:
Me: Do you tweet?
IRL friend: Huh?
Is foursquare the next Twitter? Prominent technology blogger Robert Scoble says, via CNN, “Go back three years ago. Twitter was being used by the same crowd that is playing with Foursquare today.” According to social media blog [...]

BarCamp — It’s Not Just for UberGeeks

If you:

wonder what Google Wave is all about,
want to meet new people who share your interest in technology,
want to blog, but don’t know where to start,
wish you knew how to turn that genius idea into an iPhone app,
love good food, good conversation and have always wanted to play PowerPoint Karaoke,

… you need BarCamp! It’s [...]