Another “Shift Happens” style video jam packed with facts, figures and deep thoughts for the social media junkie. The video was produced by Erik Qualman who is Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education and based right here in Cambridge, MA.

As interesting for anyone interested in the national economy as it is for those of us concerned about the Boston technology sector, here is a video that you must watch.  It comes from a recent presentation given at a TED conference in February by Juan Enriquez,

Is it that bad that as much as I was rooting for the Red Sox to win the series last night, I was equally as invested in them taking the title so I could sleep easier on my free bed!

I was reading a recent top article on Boston.com about the plans for the City of Boston and Emerson College to bring the hub into the Second Life universe and it made me think about how far will these virtual world technologies will take us and where will real world Boston fit in?
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Does the camera really add 10-pounds?
Mass High Tech published an article this week about the day-job that included my picture, which would normally be great – but look at the size of that head!…I believe it has it’s own gravitational pull.

I guess I should get off the start-up diet and setup an account with Cambridge [...]

Not that the game is all about the commercials but for most of us – it’s 50% of why we tune to watch the Superbowl each year when your team is not going to be on the field.  However, mediocrity seemed to be the name of the game for both on and off the field (actually the game was pretty good considering the conditions). Each spot was worse than the last and many advertisers either showed their off-the-shelf spots or ran ads that looked like it.

I am so pissed – now I have another show to watch on television.  I am already overloaded with the amount of pop-culture that I can consume in a given moment but now I have to watch the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force.  That’s right, I am falling for the either insanely stupid or [...]

 I just can’t wait – this election season is going to be so good!  In an earlier post I wrote about how this election was going to shift to online video like never before.  This time, I wondered how many candidates had MySpace profiles and what they were doing with them.  Here is the “semi” official [...]