Nine By Fox

  • And I think It’s Gonna Be A Long Long Time ‘Til Touch Down Brings Me Round Again To Find…

    After traveling practically non-stop for six months, I took a break from from the ziplock bags and the public partial stripping and the coffee roulette (will it all be decaf once again?) and went on a road trip for a…

  • Gnomedex: Controlling Your Life 2.0

    Once upon a time, in a land virtual and secluded, we all went online. And we had the place to ourselves. Never in our wildest dreams did we envision that our moms would follow us on Twitter, or people we…

  • Gnomedex: Twittering Live And In Person

    Gnomedex. Where you can be geeky without confused stares and the need to explain what the saying on your shirt means. Or why you would wear a shirt with a geeky saying in the first place. Where no one gives…

  • A Tag-Defined Identity Through Spock

    Spock, a vertical search engine focused on people, went live today and we all rushed out to see what it thought of us. Wait, that was just me then? I admit it. I’m so vain I think this blog post…

  • Tales From The Road, Chicago, And BlogHer

    With the road trip and the moving and the time off work, I hadn’t been on a flight in over a month up until last week. Now I’m just off another plane, and I am remembering all the tips that…

  • How To Be My Friend

    The word “friend” has taken on a whole new meaning in these days of social networking. Pownce is very endearing about it: “RandomStranger wants to be your friend!” Aww, that’s so sweet, really. Facebook is much more suspicious: “We need…

  • Maybe You Are Looking For More Cat Pictures

    It’s hard to know if those of you who read this blog are mostly looking for advice on how to use plastic utensils to succeed in any situation, rants about how I’m too old for Facebook, or more talk of…

  • Sometimes You Want To Go Where Everybody Doesn’t Bury You The Second They See Your Name

    This is a very short post just to say how happy it makes me to find a site that doesn’t bury the hell out of my stories the second someone submits them. OK, and maybe that’s only because you can’t…

  • Come Together, Right Now, All You Search-Types Flung Across The Web

    I have this love/hate relationship with social sites. Clearly. No question. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. The love part is easy: they bring together people from all over the world, you have brilliant, witty discussion, you…

  • I Can Rant About Social Networks On The Radio Too

    I guest hosted with Danny Sullivan on the Daily Searchcast this morning and while I was supposed to let Danny rant, I was a bad cohost and did some ranting of my own. But, really, I couldn’t help it. There’s…