Like most of the other 10,000-plus attendees, I had a blast at the South by Southwest Conference this year. Lots of good conversations. Lots of walking (the weird layout of the Austin Convention Center made sure of that). Lots of people with iPhones. And yes, lots of parties.
My focus at the conference was finding good [...]

Boston.com and the Boston Globe have started several Twitter feeds, including one each for sports columnists Tony Massarotti (@GlobeMazz) and Chad Finn (@GlobeChadFinn).
It’s a step in the right direction, certainly, but I think Chad and Mazz could be doing more with their individual Twitter accounts. Here’s my friendly advice for them.
(Cross-posted to my LiveWorld video [...]

Most of my Twitter pals who talk or write about TweetDeck have nothing but good things to say about the application. I’m afraid you can’t put me in that same camp — at least not yet.
While TweetDeck has plenty going for it — multiple columns, easy retweeting, ability to create groups, features for monitoring multiple [...]

Tonight I published my first post on Dad-o-Matic: Creating and archiving tweets about your kids.
It’s a quick entry about my latest efforts to chronicle the daily lives of my two children using social media (other ventures: my Flickr photos and Hopeful Dad blog). If you’re a parent yourself, I hope you find the post helpful.
I [...]

I haven’t been shy in the past about saying that the one-size-fits-all approach to pitching bloggers is lazy — and largely ineffective. Plus, pissing off the bloggers that the firm or PR agency is hoping to target in the first place can never be a good thing.

But lest my frequent calls for personalized, relevant, no-marketing-gobbledegook [...]

Two days ago, on March 1, my sister-in-law, Dorothy (pictured), passed away after a vicious car accident in Kenya. She was only 32 years old and leaves behind a husband and two young children in Nairobi. It is an unimaginable tragedy that I haven’t fully come to grips yet, but our family is praying hard [...]