I left the MediaPost office starving, which is a bad idea, especially since I know that Digital DUMBO won't have food. This is not a big deal, it just means adult Kelly needs to step it up and plan ahead. You know who plans ahead? Rob Blatt, fresh from the Blattcave, and his wife Amber. I ran into them on the street in DUMBO as they were heading to grab sandwiches. As Jenean Chapman, recent Agent 16 defector, strolled by oblivious, I stuck my leg out, scared her, and off we went to the Galapagos Art Space, a place the …

Social Media Week New York might be the hardest themed week of events to figure out yet. And if I'm saying that, I can't even imagine how insane it is on the actual event planning side. I have already gone through three revisions to my schedule of coverage, which I don't choose lightly. I think about why you read this column and I also think about how I can also share brain bits along side the chicken sticks. Because I'll be covering day panels, night panels, and night parties, this column is going to published with greater frequency. So look …

Last night I treated my eyeballs to their favorite meal: a photography and film exhibition. Emmanuel ANdre, Worldwide Operations Director at TBWA Worldwide, was inspired by his trip to South Africa as part of the Room13, a community of art studios connecting professional adults with art-impassioned youths around the world. Each Room 13 is different, but the vision is the same: melding skills, embracing different perspectives, and cultivating curiosity within a thriving ng art community. UBUNTU was born out of Andre's experience. And at the core, UBUNTU is about the importance of being human.

Oh my NYC family, I know, this morning of torrential rain sucks. Rain isn't so bad, but when it's coming at you sideways and you can actually hear the trees laughing maniacally as your rain-deflecting shoe of choice fills up like a foot bath, you almost pull the trigger on using one of those "personal days." But I know you - you're tough. You're powering through. You're working; you're gobbling up your MediaPost emails like a tailless squirrel in Madison Square Park gobbles discarded cigarettes. I'm here with you. So let's take a look at this week.

I can't believe I am energized from a 7:30 a.m. panel. But I guess that's what augmented reality does to you. It began painfully, as the L train decided to make like molasses and meander down its route today, followed by crunchy, tiny sweet breakfast pastries, and the jackhammered home by a booming Robert Downey Jr. exploding from Esquire magazine. I can certainly think of worse ways than in the company of Robert Downey Jr. to begin my day, and that's about when the coffee kicked in. So why is an augmented reality panel better than a five-energy shot? Well, …

It's here, people. That shadow you see creeping around every building, hovering over every Twitter outburst, levitating near every Facebook status update and inappropriate tag, lurking by your Tumblr, sneaking up on your Posterous, tickling your blog -- it's the shadow of Social Media Week New York, a week that will perplex, intrigue, educate, and entertain. And I think I nailed down my schedule for the week. I'm sharing it with you to distribute my overbooked anxiety and because I need your opinion on Tuesday night.

You working today? Yeah, me too. You know who isn't? The people in line outside Trader Joe's in NYC's Union Square. Great idea, kids, no one else will have the idea to go grocery shopping on MLK day. I know there is a line because I had to return to my apartment to retrieve my A/C adapter thingy for my laptop. I realized it was missing when I sat down at my desk to plug myself in. There is always opportunity in annoyance, as I was able to enjoy another 30 minutes or so out in the sun on a …

Everyone has had a day, or a week, or a month -- hopefully, not a year -- where they wonder whether the place that keeps them in food and shelter is really a psych ward where the patients are running the show. And if you haven't, tell me where you are so I can find you, jab my finger at your schnozz and yell "LIAR!!" Dan Wald upped the grousing ante and wrote a book about it: "Ad Asylum." Last night Julie Roehm (cue Duran Duran "No.. No... Notorious!"), Marketing Strategy Consultant, hosted the launch party for "Ad Asylum" at …

It's so easy to get fat when on the road for business, that's what "they" say. Full articles have been dedicated to how not to blow up like a hormonal manatee when home is the Best Western. I have been trying to apply diversionary tactics myself to the party circuit - like pounding a salad before stepping out into the night. Or like last night, where I figured bread was the lesser of two evils. This was a bad choice because I kid you not; it was the best bread I've ever eaten. And then I commenced eating the equivalent …

I'm going to introduce a legislation proposal that we just forget about Monday altogether. Following that, punishment will be doled out to those who even hint to Tuesday being the start of the workweek. And to think, evil Monday, that yesterday, as I sprinkled Old Bay into my chicken finger recipe, I said aloud, "I kind of looking forward to the week." And you do this to me.