CNN.com is bold to ask Can Internet communication sustain us? They have some outstanding answers!
“True friends […] need to learn when to stop blogging and go across campus to help a friend.”
[clip]
Increasingly, young people also are realizing that things they post on their profiles can come back to haunt them when applying for school […]

Last month I told you about the new Google Reader. I’ve used it for a week straight and I have to say that I think it’s better than Bloglines. It’s not perfect, but I think it’s better.
Steve Rubel says that Bloglines Has Lost its Way and I can’t say that I disagree with […]

Youths No Longer Predominant at MySpace
It’s not all youths on MySpace. Half of the site’s users are 35 or older, according to comScore Media Metrix’s analysis of its U.S. Internet traffic measurements. Only 30 percent are under 25 despite a common belief that the site is mostly populated with kids and young adults.
Just a year […]

Google announced today that bloggers can now ping Google Blog Search. Pinging is basically a way to tell a service that you’ve updated your blog.
From the help page from Google:
The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is a way to inform Google Blog Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared with […]

A friend emailed me this report for a tech request she had:
Customer : My phone is not turned on.
Response : Will contact user.
Response : Called user, she’s not available. Left voice mail.
When responding to people, please think. We can do better than what my friend experienced!

I heard a commercial on the radio as I was driving in today. It reminded me that enunciation is very important for an audio advertisement.
The ad for the FDA and their new slogan (I guess): “Safe and Effective”
Here’s the problem. Every time they said it, I honestly thought they were saying “Safe and […]

A little Monday Morning humor for you. I saw this video over the weekend of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak being interviewed by Steven Colbert.

YouTube - Steve Wozniak on The Colbert Report

It’s a good idea to monitor your brand, keywords, and web addresses in Google News. But you may want to also monitor what is being said in the blogosphere also (what people are saying, not what the news is saying).
On the Micro Persuasion blog, Steve shows us the new Technorati search feeds formula. […]