Digital Age
A Sexting Horror Story
Saturday’s New York Times contained a truly scary cautionary tale about a couple of eighth-graders in Washington State who got caught up in a whirlwind […]
Lessons From Twitter
Twitter turned five yesterday. Happy birthday, Twitter. (Repeat 140 million times.) That’s the number of tweets posted, on average, every day, according to Twitter. Per […]
NJ Sexting Bill’s a Step in the Right Direction
It’s an age-old debate: Why is there a double standard for men and women or, in some cases, boys and girls, when it comes to […]
Marketing Is Not Journalism
Call it name shame. As a graduate of Northwestern University’s esteemed Medill School of Journalism, I was mortified when NU’s board of trustees last week […]
Blogosphere Needs Less Hate, More Love
When my daughter was in grade school we encountered some bullying issues. She attended a small school, and a group of mean girls began calling […]
Happy Birthday, ENIAC
It’s hard to imagine, sitting here in front of my Mac desktop, next to a digital phone, a few feet from an iBook, a cell […]
Why the Hell Is There An App for That?
My son Jake had no sooner arrived back at college after Christmas break than he lost his cell phone. For some reason I don’t really […]
Facebook: The Anti-Social Network
I’ve decided to quit Facebook. Well, that’s what I’m telling everyone, but to be more accurate, I’ve decided to unfriend all 51 of my friends […]
How the Nerds Are Going to Save Our City
Over the course of this year, five computer-geek transplants are going to try to change Philly government forever. And the revolution is probably going to […]
Has Facebook Killed the Yearbook?
My daughter Marcy is, God willing, graduating from college in May (I know, I know; that went so fast!), so her school has been sending […]
Online Shopping Rewards
‘Tis the season to shop, shop, shop. That is, I suppose, if you enjoy shopping, which I don’t. I loathe the process at any time […]
Do You Trust Google Maps to Get You There?
I’m often overwhelmed by technology. The rate at which it changes makes my head spin. I can’t seem to get the hang of my cell […]
The Checkbook’s Comeback?
My college-senior daughter is always happy when I take her shopping, right up until that instant when we reach the cash register and I reach […]
Foursquare Envy
“About to get a much-needed massage!” a friend posted a couple of weekends ago after “checking in” on Foursquare at 3000 B.C. day spa in […]