Author Archives: brad

Crowd-Sourced Virtual Reality

By brad | Published: November 11, 2009
Last Month when I was in New York, my wife Andrea and I took a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. I had my Canon Rebel xti and was snapping a bunch of photographs. About halfway through the walk, I realized just how many cameras were on the bridge at that time. Everyone had a camera, [...]
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My Social media thoughts, November.

By brad | Published: November 4, 2009
Just wanted to give my $.02 on where we are with Social Media at the beginning of November, 2009. About six months ago, I was pretty excited about two trends in social media; location based social networks and video. The 3gs iPhone had just arrived, this meant two things to me: Video on the best smartphone had [...]
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Twitter Lists, why you should care

By brad | Published: October 31, 2009
Lists on Twitter launched to everyone this week. A lot of people are very excited this, for very good reason. Some are even saying that it might be the biggest thing to hit Twitter in a while. I’m cautiously optimistic. It’s not going to matter to me until the my favorite twitter clients (cotweet, tweetie) [...]
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I have swine flu.

By brad | Published: October 27, 2009
Yes, I have swine flu. I went to bed at Sunday night with a temperature of 99.6 and woke up with a temperature of 101.1, six hours later it was 102.3. I hurried to the grocery store to get Tylenol to control my fever. My anxiety was recalling thoughts of listening to NPR last spring. Phrases [...]
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Signal to Noise on Twitter

By brad | Published: October 10, 2009
A couple weeks ago I sat on a panel at 140tc that was moderated by Guy Kawasaki about brand building on Twitter. There was a lot of great insight by all the panelists, and I had a great time in the conversation. However, there were a couple of disagreements that I wanted to elaborate on. The [...]
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The Starbicks VIA road trip is almost over.

By brad | Published: September 26, 2009
Tonight we’re headed to Boston. This is the last big push, ten hour drive today. Then three and a half to New York tomorrow. After Tuesday we’re all done. This trip has been filled with so many great memories. Here are my stats from the trip: - 2 countries - 17 states, 1 province (including my 140tc [...]
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On the Road

By brad | Published: September 20, 2009
I’ve always wanted to drive across the country. I figured it would be to either visit all the major league baseball stadiums, or to follow Phish. Never thought I would be doing it for my job. Two weeks ago I found out I’d be spending the last two weeks of September with 10 strangers [...]
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Ultimate Music Throwdown 2009

By brad | Published: September 6, 2009
I have a Republican (he says he’s “libertarian”) friend that listens to metal. We argue often. We’re both stubborn. Recently there was a discovery that we both love REM (must have been a sensitive time in his life?). I can’t argue with a man about the album Monster. It’s a great album and defined a [...]
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Thoughts on Trending Topics

By brad | Published: August 2, 2009
Twitter’s Trending Topics is one of the reasons that Twitter has become so successful. Revealing the public consensus to the simple question of “what are you doing?” is one of the most enjoyable parts of being a part of Twitter. When my favorite band, my favorite baseball team, or my favorite coffee company show up [...]
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Virtual Analog Tweeting

By brad | Published: July 24, 2009
I was just commenting this week how people hide behind Twitter. I’ve never seen anybody yell #FAIL at a business or person in real life, but they tweet that all the time. This is some funny stuff:
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