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Home is where the pants aren't
BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
Go watch (Minority Report) if you can bear Tom Cruise for that long
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
I won't ever stop until you're either the biggest thing around, or you're dead.
People here will date goats. But no one wants to date a goat wearing Google glass.
Our brand is sassy people ripping apart technologists, then going to a party with them.
I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.
I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.
It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists.
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.
Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago.
My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given the gift of prophecy, except - due to her rejection of Apollo's affections - nobody would ever believe her warnings.
Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.