Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

There’s an old joke that the CIA set up Facebook for human intelligence gathering since it’s far easier to have people willingly share the d...

Podcast  of this blog post. Having witnessed firsthand the explosion of the Internet and the birth of social media, I observed a profound sh...

The following are additional thoughts to my  earlier piece . E-mail was the Wild West in the 1990s, without any non-repudiation regarding th...

Summary The current state of social media reminds me of the early days of e-mail in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. E-mail was a go...

"That's the challenge," said Sugar Jones  as she raised her drink. When I was in high school, I considered joining the Air...

In the ancient days of social media (circa 2008) people frequently said, " I don't get it. " Back then, people didn't real...

The beauty of Twitter is that it's simply 140 characters of text. Shorter than an SMS text message - akin to a headline. Any other paylo...

Video chat is the future of social media. Social media allows companionship without being present. Generally, media is fixed, meaning that i...