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Month: July 2008

  • The Aaron Brazell Show: Episode 1 – Politics, Policy and Technology

    Saturday night, I was joined by Leslie Bradshaw, Art Lindsey (who I started calling Al toward the end of the show, sorry Art!), Leslie Poston and Andrew Feinberg in an interesting discussion about policy and technology inside the beltway. Steve Hodson and S. Dawn Jones also joined in during the show. It was a fascinating…

  • Don't Buy the Coming Hype – Apple Botched the iPhone Launch, Not the Carriers

    Possibly the worst public relations nightmare in internet history occurred yesterday. Hardcore fans wanting to buy the new iPhone 3G camped out over night, and in some cases for days, to be the first to get their hands on the new, sexy, shiny device from their perfect company, Apple. What they got was unexpected. They…

  • The Quest for Email Ninjahood: Consolidate Email

    Before we got a little distracted by other things, we began a series on email ninjahood. Because email bandwidth continues to be a problem for many people with the ubiquity of Blackberries, smartphones and email anywhere you turn. The recommendations I’m offering in this series work for me but they may not work for everyone.…

  • NPR Interview This Morning

    NPR’s Laura Conway from the Bryant Park Project (syndicated on a dozen or so NPR affiliates between 7-9am ET) called me this morning for a brief chat about the Congress rules fiasco that I’ve been monitoring. Not only was this interview important for me personally (it’s NPR during the morning drivetime commute) but it’s very…

  • Viral Marketing”¦are you sick yet?

    So often buzz words turn into marketing terms. Often enough, the strongest of the marketing terms become engrained into our everyday speech. Viral Marketing is one of the latest. Marketingterms.com defines Viral Marketing as: “œMarketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message.” Ironically, medterms.com defines something that is Viral as:…

  • Statement on House Rules and Social Media Use

    Today, I’ve spent a significant amount of time working the story that broke yesterday and that we’ve been following closely. There seems to be some real bogus propaganda flying around this issue and I want to clarify the position I’ve stated repeatedly around the various places I’ve been discussing the issue. It’s reprehensible that in…

  • Congress Moves to Close Member Access to Social Media

    Congress Moves to Close Member Access to Social Media

    This post is receiving regular updates. Events are logged chronologically with newer information, comments from those involved including Rep. John Culberson below. I have been getting access to internal documents, letters and memos being sent around Capitol Hill. As I get these, I will sanitize and update accordingly. Sources will not be disclosed without their…

  • The Quest for Email Ninjahood – I Admit That I Have a Problem

    I’m beginning a short series here that, on one hand, I hope to use to educate and on the other hand I hope to expose myself and the flaws I have in how I deal with email. Email quite simply is a problem. Some people are blessed to have little email traffic so they squander…

  • Getting Geeky on the Elite Tech News Show

    For those of you with better things to do on a Sunday night (and let’s admit that is just about all of us), you probably missed the Elite Tech News show tonight. Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins from Mashable invited me on to be a guest panelist with Steve Hodson, Louis Gray and the rest of the…

  • The Fnord Project

    Today, I learned what a Fnord was from my friend Chris Bachmann who is somewhat of a sci-fi geek. He referred to it in a discussion and went on to refer to this Wikipedia entry that describes a Fnord in greater detail. A Fnord is a literary reference made famous by The Illuminatus Trilogy where…