My social media blackout

Update: I learned very little from my social media blackout. But I did learn one very important thing. There are a lot of interesting things to share that are hard for me to write about, but that might produce some … Continue reading

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Why your followers aren’t talking to you (and how to fix it)

There are shady marketers who offer to give you friends on social media for a price. They produce the numbers, but they’re doing a disservice. The numbers usually come from botnets that create thousands of accounts to follow people. In … Continue reading

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The not so secret secret to getting blog traffic

What is a secret that everyone is happy to share, but most people refuse to follow? A secret secret! So you run a blog, and nobody’s reading it. Or not enough people read it. You know about Google’s keyword tool. … Continue reading

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Takeaway from Apple’s education event

Apple’s focus is on the cost of textbooks and authoring tools. What Apple is doing can help keep the system from degrading further, but more and cheaper books will have limited impact. The future is in connecting people and knowledge … Continue reading

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History of the Internet

The internet existed from the ’50s in the form of connections between mainframes and terminals, but the part that impacted the present most happened with the standardization of the Internet Protocol in 1982. And it’s one of the most important … Continue reading

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