The essence of advertising is communicating your idea as simply and succinctly as possible to the most people, generating sales or some other type of reaction. It seems to me that most ad campaigns play to the lowest common denominator. The message is as passive as it can be with some purely emotional [...]

When I accepted the job of sitting the 14 year-old sister of my ex-boyfriend, I knew my weekend-long employment was bound to reveal some interesting tidbits. Dinner, last night, proved me right. Not only did I get the low-down on the most recent ex-girlfriend and holiday drama, but in between the conversation pauses to text [...]

On May 9, 2009 I will graduate from college. On this day, I will take part in one more ceremony that I consider necessary and entirely appropriate for my leaving college. I am going to delete my Facebook account. I was one of the incoming freshmen in college that got to be [...]

I'm not sure if this is a trend that I have missed until now, but in the last few weeks I have seen a huge increase in the number of adults using social networking tools like Facebook. By adult, I mean professionals, working mothers and fathers, stay-at-home moms, community and political leaders, and teachers [...]

I'm probably being to melodramatic - I guess I should be asking where are my broadband options (I just thought a good exclamatory title would grab your attention). Putting all syntactical errors aside... really, where are my broadband options? I don't know how many news stories I've read over the last five to [...]

Tuesday night, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania addressed Ball State students and faculty concerning "Emerging Media and the Path to the Oval Office." During her address Jamieson argued that the 2008 election and preceding campaign illustrated the eradication of private space [...]

The following site is making the rounds in my viral circles of friends, Twitter peeps and work colleagues. It originally started as something different, but the premise remains the same. I think it's a newer Post Secret. While there's no graphic imagery, the words can be rather crude. For your safety, this gets the NSFW [...]

I came to a realization recently. Now, I've always known that illegal file sharing is bad. I remember the early days of Napster and the MTV specials about Metallica and the RIAA. Despite how slow Napster was with a 56k connection, it still greatly expanded my musical repertoire. Then Napster was [...]

Thanks, by the way, to those of you who commented on my prior post. There are still some thoughts left unsaid in that rant, and it probably could be refined. That said .. TO THOSE PEOPLE KILLING TWITTER: Stop using direct message auto-responders. It's got all the irritation of an AIM away message that's 12-pages long.

I don't really know what Apple is thinking with the latest generation of MacBooks. Now don't get me wrong - I love my MacBook. My girlfriend makes fun of me, saying we have three people living in our house: me, her, and the MacBook. But part of what makes me love MY MacBook [...]