I am at an opening and Book Signing: “Patrick Demarchelier” at Clic Bookstore & Gallery in Soho tonight. On one hand, I enjoy coming to openings here, it’s packed, and I like the photo art. But, I also feel there is a slickness, an ease of the use of exotic, attractive woman in erotic and [...] - 7 days ago

I was at the Met tonight to see Velázquez Rediscovered which is on from November 17, 2009–February 7, 2010. Nice painting but I’m having a problem with major exhibitions based around one painting. I understand Muesums are strapped for cash – but can’t they do better than this? - 9 days ago

I’m at an opening at Clic Gallery of Jody Morlock tonight. As I write this, Jon Stewart, of the Daily Show walks in, I guess that tells me a little about the company I’m in. In fact, that’s me with Jon Stewart, in the photo, below! What’s weird is the how Jon looks like he’s [...] - 2 weeks ago

While I was on London last week, I stumbled upon this poster of Lord Nelson’s victory over the French and Spanish fleets in the Battle of Trafalger, in a hotel in Greenwich. Noted that several of the ships could carry up to 1200 men, and the combined fleets had over 50,000 navy seaman in battle. [...] - 3 weeks ago

I often wonder what to do when I’m waiting for a friend, here’s what I did in Photoshop Deleux on my iPhone. - 3 weeks ago

Feedback from the Influencer Scorecard Summit – two weeks ago appeared from K. D. Paine’s Notes from the Influence Scorecard Summit and Philip Sheldrake posted at Marcom Professional on How the Influence Scorecard radically transforms marketing and PR, both which I’ll comment about here. The Influencer Scorecard transmutes Social Media and Public Relations by identifying, [...] - 15 hours ago

If you just want to get a quick sense of what kinds of activities people are doing in Social Web, look no further than TrendStream’s Global Map of Social Web The map of Social Web  illustrates peoples participation across the world. The map is created from data collected as part of the Global Web Index research [...] - 2 days ago

Lately, there’s been a need to look for alternatives to SEO, because many of the old tactics became less effective.  Consider personalized search, now the default for everyone, as one example of what’s changed recently –   New  Social Media & SEO Tactics are being employed, including optimizing the use of Google SideWiki.   Inclusion of [...] - 2 days ago

“With little fanfare, Google made its personalized search system the default this week,” reports a SEED Magazine story about how “amid a roll-out of a number new features, Google’s biggest change went largely unnoticed, even though it could further fragment our shared pool of knowledge.” SEED analyzes implications in its article and links to a [...] - 3 days ago

Social Computing Journal: Tibco Software launched a new Twitter-style communication tool known as tibbr, which it claims to take a new approach to enterprise social computing by allowing users to follow the specific communication patterns on business topics as well as devices on the network. Tibco said that a tibbr topic can represent a [...] - 6 days ago

The Wall Street Journal Opinion page has an analysis of where this situation is going: You stupidly built a drive-in theater in the desert just as your customers were all deciding to stay home and watch HBO. Fortunately, the theater turns out to be sitting on a mountain of oil. With a few asterisks, such is the [...] - 6 days ago