I’m a big soccer fan and catch it on TV as often as I can. Sometimes, that means catching the US National team or my favorite pro team in Spanish. Most of the the team we just watch the game and do our best to decipher the announcements comments (which [...]

The Pew Internet and the American Life Project released a report yesterday on Technology and media usage. The report revealed that 59 percent of adults online have watched video and 19 percent of adults online watch video on a typical day. That’s a huge market for online video and why [...]

eBooks have been around for a while, but they never have really taken off. On Sunday, I saw The Reader from Sony in a Best Buy insert. It was sleek, easy to carry and sparked my imagination because of the stack of 10 books I have piled up beside my [...]

There are a lot of iPhone reviews out there, but most of them are shallow and short sighted since Apple allowed very few copies out of the factory early . Informationweek published one of the best reviews that I have seen so far examining how the apps and corporate integration [...]

Becoming a good media practitioner (whether in journalism, public relations or advertising) you need to have a good understanding of pop-culture and your audience. A few years ago my father introduced me to the USA Network program Monk. I think it’s a funny show and watch all the new episodes [...]

We are all excited that a new Walgreens opened up down the street from our house a few weeks ago. One of the supposed advantages is that you can get your prescription filled at any of the 5,461 stores nationwide. Unfortunately, last night their nationwide system must have mixed our [...]

The MLB is at odds with the media again in it’s debate over whether or not it can own the facts of the game. This time is a bit more interesting because they are mad at ESPN– the cable channel that helps sustain baseball as everything else is letting them [...]

Jakob Nielsen’s words were the bible of my web design (and I take an authoritative view of the Bible) when I first started putting web pages together back in the late ’90s. I have very dog-eared copy of his book Designing Web Usability and read every article on his web [...]

Thursday night I finally finished reading Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. I say finally because it took me about a month to read it. Please don’t let that be an appraisal of my opinion of the book. [...]

I have had a Canon Powershot A95 digital camera since April 1995. I bought the camera to take with us to Maui and it took awesome photos, but after I got my Canon 20D Digital SLR I haven’t used it for much more than shooting videos. Today, I was shooting [...]