Category: Work & Web
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A friend’s request on Facebook that others unfriend him was what brought it into focus for me — the idea that we’ve crashed into the limitations of social media, that Facebook as a platform and a tool is inadequate for what it’s attempting to provide, what it can’t provide. Last Saturday, as everyone in North America’s feed…
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I’ve been circling Medium for about a year now. The self-proclaimed platform for thinkers and thoughtful discussion has a formidable back-end—it’s the best WYSIWYG editor I’ve seen, and it has the smartest commenting system I’ve seen. And there is plenty of content there, including posts from Hillary Clinton, Politico, Jeff Jarvis, and many others. But…
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I tried out a Microsoft Lumia 830, which came out last year, with a FitBit Flex activity tracker. It’s a mixed bag. I like the Flex, though not as much as the Jawbone UP24 I had last year. The Jawbone was easier to get on and off, and it was simpler to integrate it with…
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One of the great things about my job is the completely out-of-leftfield meetings we have with international franchisees. Last month, I met two people (a female publisher and male editor) for the Mongolian edition of Men’s Health, which launches early in 2015. I learned a bunch of things—much of it related to the country’s digital…
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After 15 years working on the Web end of journalism, I’m starting to get the game. Google, Apple, and Facebook are committed to a campaign to position themselves between you and your customer (and to soak up all the genius engineers who could possibly enable you to outmaneuver them). The more you let that happen,…
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I was driving to my office last Monday when I had one of those weird ideas I couldn’t quite shake, so I called a sports business prof from Penn’s Wharton School and, when he didn’t laugh me off the line, wrote it up. In short, it says the NFL has a lot of problems, between…
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We were at a nephew’s college graduation party this weekend. He finished up classes in the winter and has been working most of 2014. It’s great to see these Once Little Ones becoming Big Ones, and even Self-Sufficient Big Ones. Still, it’s a sign of the times, I think, that my nephew is still living…
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I wrote for Men’s Health recently about my 100 days (and nights) wearing a Jawbone UP24 activity tracker. If you want to save 5-6 minutes, I’ll give away the surprise: I learned more about what happens when I was asleep than when I was awake, and what I learned is that even a little alcohol…
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This has been a week about loss. Went to Phillies game last Wednesday night with friends and it had the feeling of a hangover, of waking up to find the girl you found so fascinating the night before isn’t how you remembered, that the window has shut on the Good Times. Less than 20,000 unenthusiastic…
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Very cool app, Bubbli, let me create a 360-degree “bubble” of my yard on this bitterly cold, blue-and-white day. See below: Snow Day (Bubbli)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about heroes lately. This summer, my colleague Andrew Daniels pitched an idea to tell a story a day for a month. I liked the idea, and we tried to come up with a subject: what would be complex enough, evocative enough, and interesting enough to keep people engaged for 30-odd…
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Contrary to what a cynical world tells you, we live in an age of heroes. They’re all around. Really. No bull—-. Sometimes it’s just an act of kindness, a guy who buys umbrellas and hands them out to rain-soaked New Yorkers. Sometimes it’s as serious as the teen who follows a suspicious car until the…
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