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More Bad Press for PayPal 16 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
More and more stories are coming out about PayPal refusing to hand over ticket sales money or donations to event planners and start-ups. This freezes operations for the organizations that need the mon...
A Quick Primer on Color for Website Design 9 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
A video over on Gizmodo talks about the emotional cast that orange and blues have on film. It’s a great beginning primer on the physics of light and color. If you are new to the study of perceptio...
Harassing Phone Scammer Pretends to Be DEA Agent 9 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
This guy most certainly doesn’t have one of these… Today I was called at home by an aggressive phone scam criminal that goes by the name of “Mark Thomas” or something similar. Here’s how I got pulled...
If for any reason – notes about entrepreneurship for my daughters | Startup Trenches 20 Jul 2013 | 01:37 am
Entrepreneur Andrea Michalek writes out a little background story and advice for her daughters, in case she gets hit by a bus. It’s a bit of a morbid thought, but in the era of Lean In, Michalek does ...
Social Media “Is for the Young”… Until It Isn’t: Get A CCO 18 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
Social media as a practice and theory is a new phenomenon. That newness has led traditional businesses to either disregard utilizing social media or to neglectfully hand over the company Twitter accou...
Philly Geek Awards 16 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
We don’t all look like robots at the Philly Geek Awards. We actually dress quite nicely. On August 17, 2013, The tech community in Philly will be honoring this year’s most geeky of the geeks at the P...
The Psychology of Video Games 16 Jul 2013 | 11:17 am
Here’s a comrade-in-arms in the world of Psychology of Information Technology: Dr. Jamie Madigan of The Psychology of Video Games blog. His latest post The Psychology of Video Games | The Psychology ...
Social Media’s Role in Zimmerman Trial 15 Jul 2013 | 11:10 pm
This Miami Herald article does a good job in mentioning some of the influence the national press and social media around it had on the events surrounding George Zimmerman’s arrest and eventual trial. ...
Make Facebook’s Feed Nice-Nice 15 Jul 2013 | 03:27 am
How to Block Annoying Political Posts on Facebook is a Lifehacker video that will show you a third party app that will allow you to filter out “Trayvon Martin” or ”Zimmerman” from your FB news feed. ...
Krrb Getting Crushed by Craigslist 8 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm
What, no Philly listed? pfft. As an early adopter, I end up being one of the first members of new apps. Krrb is one of those apps. I haven’t participated in Krrb much, as I am not in the buying/sell...
