Like many Farrah Fawcett fans, I think the death of Michael Jackson robbed the passing of Charlie’s most famous angel of some well-deserved news coverage. After all, Jill Munroe and her fellow detectives (I was more of a Kate Jackson devotee) influenced my life far more than the moon-walking pop ...

I recently participated in one of the Empire Club’s new Lunch ’n Learn sessions, which offered an interactive Q&A session on the need for corporations to adjust media relations and communications strategies to the emerging opportunities and challenges created by social media.

I'm at a conference in the Times Center on 41st street at 8th Avenue in NYC. It's called The 99% Conference. (The title is a riff on the famous Thomas Edison quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.")

Channeling the 1773 pre-Revolutionary War protests in Boston, Massachusetts, hundreds of tea party protests have taken place across the United States today in a nationwide backlash against excessive government spending and bailouts. The protests were timed to coincide with tax deadline day.

Quick update to my earlier post. First, an interesting analysis of some research conducted by HP Labs on Twitter.

I'm still wrapping my head around Twitter—but so is everyone else, even the so-called social media experts, and that is precisely what makes it so fascinating. Twitter is a surprisingly deep and malleable medium (I hesitated to type that last word). There are many reasons for this, but one is ...

File this under Weird: Nortel has produced a cartoon ad. You can see it here, on YouTube, posted by "nortelvids" and aptly described as: "This fully animated piece follows a lonely robot as he finds an energy efficient Nortel oasis in a dark and dreary future world."