For those of you who have been wondering “what’s up with Facebook” with all the hanging up and hiccups the past several days, today’s experience on Facebook by millions revealed why. Facebook now has banner ads. Facebook, the company that prided itself of the “user experience” and not allowing banner ads on its pages had …
Back in 2001 I wrote a guest article for a nationally syndicated column on the future of the virtual world of the internet. I talked about how in the future everything we could imagine would be mere keystrokes and mouse-clicks away. Goods and services. Entertainment. Music. Food and drink. "Connections" with others. All without …
To watch the timeline on how the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden Sunday night spread was a very interesting lesson in how social media like Twitter and Facebook have changed the way we get information. However, the most interesting part about the lesson was not so much who was getting the information …
I have been computer literate for a long time. My first taste of computing was in high school where they had a Computer Science class. Running punch tapes, punch cards, Fortran and the like. Then after that is was a Commodore 64 and Basic. Then my dad got a Tandy EX1000 and I was introduced …
There are many things that people love about Fall and October. Oktoberfest. Pumpkins by the truckloads appearing at grocers, farm markets, and roadside stands. A long and cascading change of color rippling down from the upper peninsula at the beginning of the month and reaching the lower peninsula by months end. Trips to the cider …
