I take a lot of flack for my t-shirt collection sometimes, but that’s cool with me. I mean, I can’t get really excited about a closet full of button-down shirts, but I can get a kick out of wearing one of my many t-shirts with a bike theme, or my t-shirts celebrating co-ops, or even…
Maybe I’m dense, but I just don’t get the fakery trend in our culture. It could be just our continuing infatuation with shallowness and outward appearances, I suppose, but it kinda bugs me. Several different types of fakery have recently annoyed me popped up in my world, and because I’m a monkey with a keyboard…
One of my pet peeves is the amount and type of advertising targeting children. Specifically, the ads promoting products that negatively affect their health, such as those promoting junk food (and fast food). I take offense when I see pieces of the marketing campaigns for obvious junk food items (we don’t have a TV, so…
As a blogger, I thought I really understood social media and knew the potential for using it for doing good things in the world, but it wasn’t until I became the focus of a social media campaign myself that I felt the true power of it. On January 15th, I took a big fall, which…
This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell‘s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading…
Citizen journalism, open government, status updates, community building, information sharing, crowdsourcing, and the election of a President. Editor’s note: This is first guest post from Max Gladwell. Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be…
We used to get a phone call from our mothers once a week with the news from home: weddings, funerals, births, stories of who was doing what (and with whom). Now we can just login and have all of that same information in real-time, with social media. My buddy recently heard about a wedding proposal…
Personal, Parenting and Natural Living Bio: I’m a husband, a father, and a carrier of things. I think peanut butter on anything is great. I love big mountains and little kids, ’cause they make me smile, and I drink a double americano almost every day. I’m a nature boy, a tree-hugging dirt-worshiper. I try to…
