Today is a sad but provocative day as so many people try to articulate precisely why Steve Jobs (who died yesterday at age 56) was a genius and a visionary.

We know that Steve and Apple (one and the same for the past several decades) revolutionized the technology and computer industries. We know that he changed forever how we consume and share music, news, books, video and more. 

But I was reminded by Self-Publishing Review of a

I'm delighted to announce that I'm teaming up with Compendium Blogware as a strategic advisor for 2010. I've know CEO Chris Baggott for years, since his email marketing days as co-founder of ExactTarget. Chris is a go-getter and a prolific writer and thinker whose style I admire. We'll be collaborating on a number of projects around the value of corporate blogging, from Webinars to white papers. Chris is considered a marketing

Have you noticed this? Although we're all "connected" 24X7 through our fave social networks, when the services go down we somehow think we're ALL ALONE and that it's only happening to us. That was my reaction along with many others this morning when Twitter became frozen in time. Ditto when Gmail went down recently. Psychologists have had a field day with this phenomenon, speculating on whether the Internet makes us more lonely or

Feature segment on Washington DC's ABC news affiliate WJLA-TV (Channel 7) aired today, asking - and answering - the question: do you really care what your friends are doing? Not if it's: going to the bathroom, going to the doctor, sitting in traffic. Segment quotes me as the "expert," advising Twitterers to "put their best foot forward." And noting that "you can smell" self promotion online.

The who’s who - and how - of D.C.‘s Top 100 Techies is all the buzz in the local tech community: who’s on the list, who’s not, etc. I was delighted to be named a Tech Titan (#100 as it happens, as it’s alphabetical) but I’ve been curious… how did editor-at-large Garrett Graff choose 100 noteworthy D.C. techies for the May 2009 issue of Washingtonian? Graff’s street cred for compiling such a list is impressive, BTW.  He was Howard

I am fortunate to live in DC so was able to walk to the Mall in the frigid cold yesterday and experience the excitement of the enormous crowd. Then I walked back home to warmth and to watch the swearing in on HDTV. President Obama struck an essential note in his Inaugural Address: it’s time for all of us to assume responsibility as we help remake America. I detected a sly humor in the fact that the first blog post went up on