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Neck Deep in the Zeitgeist

Never underestimate the power of the gadget

05.12.2009

It is 10:00 pm and I am lying on my back in bed, writing this post on my iPhone. Why would I write a blog post in the dark on a cramped keyboard that, no matter what you think of it, is not ideally suited to larger-than-micro blogging? Because I can. I just found the [...]

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Million Dollar Web Idea

01.30.2009

I’m looking in our cupboard at our bottle of canola oil, which proudly proclaims it is “expeller pressed.” Is that a good thing? It must be a good thing, right? Or they wouldn’t put it on the label. I have a bottle of salmon oil capsules from Trader Joe’s, which are “molecularly distilled.” Is that [...]

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Anything that combines wine and social media is fine with me

01.01.2009

The Mrs and I went into a new store in Chapel Hill yesterday called 3 Cups. Formerly at a smaller location, it relocated a few months ago to the plaza with our local Whole Foods and ABC (state liquor) store. Smart move. The three cups of the title refer to wine, coffee and tea. The [...]

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Internet fast for the holidays?

11.24.2008

First of all, do we still talk about “memes,” or is that something else on which I am hopelessly behind? If we do, here’s a meme I’m seeing among some of my Twitter folks: an Internet fast for the holidays. Three of my colleagues have mentioned it, and two have cited spousal annoyance as a [...]

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Shouldn't spammers be getting better, not worse?

11.13.2008

The text of two spam emails I received this morning, blocked by my Outlook filter: Good Afternoon   My name is Tammy, I live in Florida and I make handmade jewelry. I would like to know if you would have a possible interest in seeing my items on my website?   Thank you in advance. [...]

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Would you rather read this, or 37 tweets?

10.25.2008

I started this blog in 2003. I was looking for work and it gave me a creative outlet – something to do other than check Monster every hour hoping that companies in the Raleigh-Durham area had suddenly started hiring marcomm managers again. Most – no, all – of the blogs I read at the time [...]

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Ground control to Major Duck

08.08.2007

I thought I was pretty down with British slang, but as I watched the BBC news this morning, I saw this crawl across the bottom of the screen: Tiger Woods in determined mood as he looks to break his major duck this season at the USPGA chamionships You never know what’s going to be lost [...]

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Plus, werewolf poetry

08.05.2007

A sign at our local Barnes & Noble.

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The gravest of constitutional chemical mechanisms

07.31.2007

I have Google Alerts set up for keywords and phrases related to my new company, since it’s part of my job, as The Tick would put it, to monitor the culture. I just came across a web site that I cannot figure out. It appears to have been translated from English to another language and [...]

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Tiny headlines

07.24.2007

I’m now carrying two mobile phones around with me; one from work and my own. Those of you who know about my obsession with phones and other shiny objects might think I’d enjoy this, but it’s actually kind of annoying, and might just push me over the man bag threshold. One of them is on [...]

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