communication. community. cognition.
(Note: the audio below complements, but does not replicate the content of this entry) [audio:http://www.gabcast.com/casts/19381/episodes/1208990907.mp3] Freakonomics. If you're an American and you look at best-seller lists, you know what it … [Continue reading]
Thanks again for everyone who has sent prayers and good wishes to my cousin Billy. If you haven't been following, Billy was dead to me for about two hours on a Sunday last month. We got a call that he'd collapsed and died at home in California. … [Continue reading]
(Note: the I don't write about politics very often, for very good reasons. As you will find, however, this is not a purely political piece. Nor is it partisan.) On this particular day, with the most gorgeous weather imaginable for an Earth Day, … [Continue reading]
Last month, I ranted about how Social Media is not a commodity -- not an easy bundle of off-the-shelf "solutions." Well, our friend David Armano over at Logic+Emotion has the same idea, and provides us with this picture that replaces my thousand … [Continue reading]
"Ugly" and "rough" - at least in the English language - sound sort of like they are. They certainly don't roll off the tongue like "pretty" and "smooth." There's a whole chicken-and-egg argument that we could make about whether ugly-sounding words … [Continue reading]
South by Deep South is really happening. No joke. September 26-28 in Birmingham. We picked a date that did not conflict with either a Crimson Tide home game nor a NASCAR event. As it happens, we'll also have the 10th Annual Sidewalk Film … [Continue reading]
{{myquote|If you're going to kill a sacred cow, grill it nice and thick, and don't smother it in cheap steak sauce. Anything less is eternal disrespect.}} Inspired by David Armano on Twitter. … [Continue reading]