I’m in the middle of watching the Texas/Alabama National Championship Game, and when Colt McCoy got hurt, a major spike on Twitter happened. It’s actually pretty incredible how much information gets disseminated on Twitter before the networks have any …

Here we are. 2010. Another decade flew by, and yet we aren’t teleporting anywhere or driving hovercrafts, much to my chagrin. Every year we make resolutions — to quit smoking, to lose weight, to join the gym, to find the "one," to get that job or start that business that’s going to let us retire early. But before you know it, 10 years are gone. That’s not to say baby steps on the ladder of life

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it"
– Ferris Bueller

Technology (specifically, the technologies that propel social media’s progress) moves pretty fast, too. Some would argue, that if you do stop and look around, you will definitely miss it. Thing is, you don’t want to miss the point of slowing down to look around.

I’m going to go out on

Have I ever said how much I love analytics? Well, if I haven’t said it enough, I love analytics. I enjoy looking at hard data and analyzing it. One of my favorite temp jobs I ever had was actually with a market research firm in Dallas where we took tho…

I am at a writing retreat this weekend at the beautiful and spiritual Scarritt-Bennett Center in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. As the brochure says, this small campus was designed in "Collegiate Gothic" style back in 1963. It immediately scratched my nostalgia itch because it reminds me of 1991 when I enrolled for a summer session at University College in Oxford, England. Add a river, Rob