Thanks for coming by, and following the deranged advice of Gini Dietrich, who had no business sending you here. My name is Ike, and I will be your curator today.

As I mention, I am going to be writing less here. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t visit or subscribe. I’ll still drop little gems from time to time.

Since you came over, though, I thought I’d leave you a list of things to check out, which stand a tiny chance of living up to Gini’s hype.

• The Field Guide to Social Media Weasels
• The Sub-Prime Primer
• Absolution
• Secure E-Mail for Kids
• Friending Strangers on Fakebook
• …and the sequel, The Cindy in Your Town
• How Not to Use Youtube
• The Turkeys on Your TV
• Destined to Obscurity
• A Load of Fertilizer
• The Flow of the First Mover
• When Your Friend Gets Hacked
• Divergence? Surely, You Can’t Be Serious
• Lessons From the Tin Man

…and a bunch of others. Really, I’ve probably left out a dozen or more that I really liked, but just didn’t remember.

If you have a favorite that wasn’t listed, shout it in the comments.

And if you want tiny little bites, check out the entire My Quotes category. Wisdom on Post-It Notes.

Thanks for coming by. Maybe I will get busy here again one day.

I started Occam’s Razr during the New Years’ break of 2007. And I was fairly regular in writing (with the occasional hiatus) up to the start of 2011.

Four years of material, and I stand by every bit of it.

Listen to: 

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In fact, I sometimes go back through the archives looking for one piece, and re-discover something else that I didn’t remember writing until that moment. But I remain proud of the words, and believe I have lived up to my charge of writing things that aren’t focused on the here and the now. [Read more...]

Many of our linguistic idioms are grounded in something practical and tangible, even if the circumstances around them seem anachronistic.

Today, you’ll still hear references to people who are described as so generous they would “give you the shirt off their back,” even though we live in a society where true clotheslessness is not a pressing need.

However, I did find myself in need recently, and this is the story of just such a man.

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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and have some fairly significant insights to share. However, life has sent more than a few important items my way, and those take priority.

I’ll be sharing more soon.

My daughter drew this, in honor of a neighbor who has served several recent tours overseas. [Read more...]

Sorry if it’s been a little slow here.

I’ve been working on a review which will hit Social Media Explorer next week, and a post published today over at Media Bullseye about how social services need to grow a bit more flexible.

I’ll be out of pocket for most of next week, too. But I’ll add what I can.