Writing has always been a big struggle for me. Some sentences come easily, some feel like pulling teeth. I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and I know what good writing looks like, so when my writing doesn’t match up to my expectations in my head, I’m not satisfied. I could give up, but I won’t. […]
Bullish on the Bird: Why I’m Excited About Twitter
I’ve talked to a number of people that just don’t get Twitter. They say that it’s dumb, or that they don’t have anything to say, or that it doesn’t make sense. I don’t blame them–for years I thought the same thing. When I finally did join back in 2009, I didn’t tweet much and when […]
Anyone Can Make A Website: Here’s How!
The internet is full of super simple fun websites. So many are hilarious or beautiful or smart, and the basic ones are so easy to make. You can learn how to build a basic website in 30 minutes. For those not in internet fields, I wonder if that is common knowledge. Did you know you could publish […]
Ideas are Mortal
Today I was doing some research for work and was overcome with a weird feeling. It’s back-to-school time for the ungraduated among us, so my college experience has been on my mind, and I realized that the feeling I got was similar to the one I get when I think about college. Of course you […]
Don Draper vs Elon Musk: The 5 Things I’ve Learned from Mad Men
The “meeting” has changed in the past 50 years. This suddenly became clear to me the other day in a PPC meeting that followed a night of binge watching Mad Men. We were talking about clicks. Single clicks on Google ads. For like 30 minutes. I had this epiphany about how absurd that is. Don’t […]
Advanced Searching, Part 2: Text Modifiers and Site Modifiers
The first part of this series covered some intermediate level Google searching, such as filtering the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). This part is going to be a bit more advanced, teaching you to get advanced results by entering spiffy commands directly into the search bar. Let’s get right to it! Text Modifiers: “”, +, […]
Quick Look: New Google+ Photo Album Tagging
Google I/O 2013 was last week. They announced a slew of new features for Android, Chrome, Google+, Maps, etc, and it was capped by a two-hour long Q&A with one of Google’s founders, Larry Page. It was awesome. It’s been written about a ton of times on much more reputable sites, but I wanted to show a […]
Climbing in the Spring
There is a feeling I only get in the Spring, when I open the windows for the first time. Two layers of sounds come into the room. The first is of people around me: cars driving by, trains, people chatting on porches. The second is hidden in the background, and it is the one I’ve […]