Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Part 6: A checklist of steps to take before installing the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Think carefully before you hacktintosh your netbook, and make sure to do your homework.
Part 5: How to decide if you should install the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in a hacktintosh: it’s not all about saving a few bucks on the cost of a Mac.
Remembering Michael Griesdorf
What I learned from my dear friend Michael: about love, about the world, and about having a damn good time.
Part 4: My $400 MacBook Air Light
Living with a hacktintosh: the pros and cons of my newly Macified HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, Part 3: How to migrate your current Mac setup to your new Mac netbook
You can get up and running with your hacktintosh a lot more quickly if you make smart use of Apple’s migration manager to copy data, applications and settings from your existing Mac.
Making a Mac netbook, part 2: How to install the Mac OS on a Windows or Unix netbook
A summary of the steps I followed to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on an HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, part 1: Why I Mac-ified
Why I turned my HP Mini 1000 netbook into a Mac — after months running it in Ubuntu and Windows.
7 innovations that make travel easier
After seven years in which out-of-town travel was a relatively infrequent (and rushed) experience, I’m struck by how much easier air travel is now compared to my pre-parent days. Here are a few of the non-social-media innovations that make travel much better than it was in 2002.
Social media and the health sector: an introduction with case studies
Social capital, understood as the density of relationships and trust within a community, is a key determinant of health. Individuals are happier and healthier in communities with high levels of social capital, and high social capital communities have stronger economies and more stable political systems. This post provides an introduction to the role of social media in building social capital, illustrated with examples of how health care organizations are using social media for storytelling, connecting and knowledge management.
Scoring with Social Media: 6 Tips for Using Analytics
This blog post originally appeared on the Harvard Business Review site. Want to know your social media score? Fill in the following equation: (Twitter followers + Facebook friends + LinkedIn contacts) x (Total tweets + Twitterers you follow + Months on Facebook)...
The Harvard Business Review
Part 6: A checklist of steps to take before installing the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Think carefully before you hacktintosh your netbook, and make sure to do your homework.
Part 5: How to decide if you should install the Mac OS on a PC netbook
Evaluating the trade-offs involved in a hacktintosh: it’s not all about saving a few bucks on the cost of a Mac.
Remembering Michael Griesdorf
What I learned from my dear friend Michael: about love, about the world, and about having a damn good time.
Part 4: My $400 MacBook Air Light
Living with a hacktintosh: the pros and cons of my newly Macified HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, Part 3: How to migrate your current Mac setup to your new Mac netbook
You can get up and running with your hacktintosh a lot more quickly if you make smart use of Apple’s migration manager to copy data, applications and settings from your existing Mac.
Making a Mac netbook, part 2: How to install the Mac OS on a Windows or Unix netbook
A summary of the steps I followed to install Mac OS Snow Leopard on an HP Mini 1000.
Making a Mac netbook, part 1: Why I Mac-ified
Why I turned my HP Mini 1000 netbook into a Mac — after months running it in Ubuntu and Windows.
7 innovations that make travel easier
After seven years in which out-of-town travel was a relatively infrequent (and rushed) experience, I’m struck by how much easier air travel is now compared to my pre-parent days. Here are a few of the non-social-media innovations that make travel much better than it was in 2002.
Social media and the health sector: an introduction with case studies
Social capital, understood as the density of relationships and trust within a community, is a key determinant of health. Individuals are happier and healthier in communities with high levels of social capital, and high social capital communities have stronger economies and more stable political systems. This post provides an introduction to the role of social media in building social capital, illustrated with examples of how health care organizations are using social media for storytelling, connecting and knowledge management.
Scoring with Social Media: 6 Tips for Using Analytics
This blog post originally appeared on the Harvard Business Review site. Want to know your social media score? Fill in the following equation: (Twitter followers + Facebook friends + LinkedIn contacts) x (Total tweets + Twitterers you follow + Months on Facebook)...
OneZero
The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts
Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a…
Alone online
When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an...
Talking about talking about social media
Daniel Greene has an interesting post about the need for offline conversations that can help us make sense of our lives online. As he puts it: I need a forum for discussion– a structured, moderated, real life, real time conversation about social media. I need to...
The size of social media
No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That's the core of Mashable's advice in a piece running today, How to...
6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts
If you're trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it's very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I'm awsamuel, everywhere.) But...
5 life problems created by Facebook — and 1 solution
The launch of Facebook Places, which lets people "check in" to geographic locations the way they can with FourSquare, Yelp or Gowalla, has provoked a fresh round of reflection on how Facebook affects our lives and relationships. Here are 5 problems that Facebook could...
10 ways your smartphone will help you travel with kids
It was 9:15 a.m., and the Eiffel Tower had barely opened for the day. Nonetheless, we faced a 90-minute line-up before our two young kids -- ages 4 and 6, respectively -- would get to take the trip up the tower that they had been begging for since the moment we landed...
Alive offline
If the Internet is addictive, then how come there's no withdrawal symptoms? I've been on vacation for three days and haven't blogged, barely tweeted, barely Facebooked, and have yet to check into a single location using the local version of FourSquare. It's hard to...
JSTOR DAILY
The Dirty Truth About Digital Fasts
Last year it was the staycation. This year it’s the digital fast. "How I unplugged" — from Twitter, from a…
Alone online
When we have no project to finish, no friend to visit, no book to read, no television to watch or no record to play, and when we are left all alone by ourselves we are brought so close to the revelation of our basic human aloneness and are so afraid of experiencing an...
Talking about talking about social media
Daniel Greene has an interesting post about the need for offline conversations that can help us make sense of our lives online. As he puts it: I need a forum for discussion– a structured, moderated, real life, real time conversation about social media. I need to...
The size of social media
No one is perfect and you can’t expect to please everyone all the time, so the best trick is to be prepared for how to handle things if your company finds itself under attack in the social realm. That's the core of Mashable's advice in a piece running today, How to...
6 social web sites where you want multiple accounts
If you're trying to develop a consistent voice, brand or set of relationships across the social web, it's very useful to choose a username that is available on all the major social networks and use that as your consistent handle online. (I'm awsamuel, everywhere.) But...
5 life problems created by Facebook — and 1 solution
The launch of Facebook Places, which lets people "check in" to geographic locations the way they can with FourSquare, Yelp or Gowalla, has provoked a fresh round of reflection on how Facebook affects our lives and relationships. Here are 5 problems that Facebook could...
10 ways your smartphone will help you travel with kids
It was 9:15 a.m., and the Eiffel Tower had barely opened for the day. Nonetheless, we faced a 90-minute line-up before our two young kids -- ages 4 and 6, respectively -- would get to take the trip up the tower that they had been begging for since the moment we landed...
Alive offline
If the Internet is addictive, then how come there's no withdrawal symptoms? I've been on vacation for three days and haven't blogged, barely tweeted, barely Facebooked, and have yet to check into a single location using the local version of FourSquare. It's hard to...
THE VERGE
6 crucial police guidelines for stopping social media vigilantes
Yesterday, Vancouver was treated to the first court appearances by alleged participants in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots. It was a snapshot of one of the most profound and valuable institutions in our society: a system of justice to which we have collectively delegated...
10 geek gifts for this holiday season
The holiday season sends many of us into the aisles of Best Buy or the Apple Store. We might wander…
How to follow your own principles online
Listen carefully to any twinge of discomfort when you’re online. It’s there to help you learn how to follow your own principles online.
Delete your Klout profile and be more than a Klout score
7 steps to deleting your Klout score, following through on my Harvard Business Review blog post, “The Social Sanity Manifesto”.