As I’ve discussed previously, I found a happy medium with Facebook by reducing my friend count from about 500 to 225, and then unfollowing every one of them except my wife and kids. (They might post 5 times a month total). The real value I get from Facebook isn’t in …
Today is Throwback Thursday, so I’m going old school and sharing a link the way we used to do it back in the olden days before Facebook and Twitter. Going viral back then meant hundreds or thousands of people independently deciding to write about your blog post on the same …
Facebook gave me a birthday reminder today for a Facebook friend that I haven’t seen online in 2+ years. We were close enough to “real” friends that we made several attempts at getting together in real life for lunch or happy hour, but we never quite got organized enough to …
In The Lost Book of the Grail, author Charlie Lovett weaves together elements of romance, historical fiction, and mystery into an engrossing novel that is hard to put down. The book chapters alternate between two settings:
Historical fiction set in a Christian monastery charged with hiding a Grail related artifact …
I got a notification this morning that the Google Photos AI had created a new photo book for me – Highlights of 2017. So I clicked though to take a look. Google thinks several things I photographed last year to sell on Craigslist qualify as highlights of my year. I have …
Way back in the dot com boom of the early 2000s I wrote a business plan for a web app that would let you configure a shopping list to match your store layout. I was going to mine your list (data) to allow grocery companies to direct very personalized coupons …
Blame Andrea for this – she tweeted about it and 31 posts in a row might be what it takes for me to hit my 1 post a week goal for the year.
I’m kidding about that, I think. I’m pretty sure I’m over 30 blog posts for the year, so …
In 20+ years of writing here I’ve apparently never written anything specifically for Thanksgiving. That seems odd, but Google doesn’t lie. There are no Thanksgiving posts on this site.
Thanksgiving was never a big deal for us. My Dad was USAF and except for 1 or 2 years in my …
On Mastodon, the “retweet” feature is called boost, and it has no capability for you to add commentary. This means if you boost something to your followers, you are amplifying the message. There is no mechanism for the user to boost something while providing commentary on it. This means almost …
Google Maps is a mature product and innovation seems to be lacking with it. In other words, it’s like every other Google product. Here are a few things Google could add to Maps to make it more useful. I believe Google has the data to implement all these ideas now …
