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Talking about grown-up love online

Oct 21, 2010 |

One of the great miracles of my life is the affection between our two kids. As an only child myself, I always feared the prospective challenge of playing referee among multiple offspring. From what I could see of multi-child families, parenting siblings looked not...

The 10 best tool collections for delicious users

Oct 20, 2010 | ,

Last week I celebrated my sixth anniversary. No, not my wedding anniversary (we hit number 10 this summer); and not the anniversary of our business (our fifth birthday was a couple of weeks ago).  Last week was my delicious anniversary, and after six years I can say...

Social media is the jar my brain sits in

Oct 14, 2010 |

Brain-in-a-jar images of the future are usually presented as dystopian. But for many years, I found the brain-in-a-jar lifestyle nothing short of enviable: what could be better than eternal life, or even just regular old life, than dispensing with the annoyances of...

Where The Social Network fails, does Gossip Girl succeed?

Oct 8, 2010 |

My latest blog post for Harvard Business Review talks about what The Social Network tells us about social media. Or rather, it looks at what The Social Network doesn't tell us about social media, since the movie used the birth of Facebook as the backdrop for a...