When Mr. Earthquake Comes to Visit by Erik Sass

The outpouring of earthquake-related tweets suggests East Coasters seem to mostly be enjoying the uniquely unsettling feeling of "who the heck is driving a big rig down my street OMG IT'S AN F-IN EARTHQUAKE." The reaction is equally amusing to people who live on the West Coast, where we have real earthquakes thank-you-very-much, and this regional geologic snobbery is predictably also in evidence on Twitter (apparently Californians don't think Mother Nature is on Twitter, or they might hush up with the bragging -- also, we're boasting about something that lowers our property values?). ...Read the whole story

The Seven Types Of Mobile Social Commerce by David Berkowitz

Until recently, I used to put mobile social commerce in the same category as Woody Allen's blockbusters and Rick Perry's bad hair days; it's something that couldn't possibly exist. When defining it properly and exploring the possibilities, though, it turns out that mobile social commerce is flourishing. ...More