For the second time, I participated in Twitter Taste Live, an especially fun wine tasting for geeks like me that combines wine love with social media overkill. (Ah, geekdom, I sing your anthem proudly through purple-stained lips.)
While last time I got to taste a series of Finger Lakes cabernet francs, which were as a whole quite good, this time my cohorts and I tasted sparkling wine made in the upstate New York region. I’d never had a bubbly from there, I didn’t even know they were making them in the …

We’re always walking through an art museum, wherever we are, as landscapes and still lifes, portraits and even abstract art can be found everywhere you look.
For example, simple vandalism, lines, scribbles and love notes scratched into the Plexiglas windows of a train station’s rain shelter, is worthy of being hung on a wall.
And thank goodness for that.
Enjoy these photos, taken at the Saint James Long Island Rail Road Station:

Don’t think this is going to be one of those “once again I’ve let this blog go quiet” kinds of posts, because I have a solid excuse: parenthood.
On May 18 my daughter Gwyneth was born, and the event hasn’t stopped happening yet. Maybe it never will.
For weeks, just about everybody I know who has children warned me about the transformative nature of becoming a parent. Impressions such as, “You’re life will never be the same, It will change your life, you’re life as you know it is over, It’s the …

I’ve often found that some of the most enlightening moments come right after you throw your hands up in the air and embrace that you have absolutely no clue. It’s when you’ve emptied yourself of all of those preconceptions that spotting something true is almost effortless, instinctual even.
Last night I found this presentation with Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, and the narrator of countless others, explaining that very thing. He calls it, “getting it wrong.”
He makes a few great points that had me thinking about a few …

I accepting this label of social media expert I here bye promise not to retweet Mashable headlines all day, recite every Twitter anecdote I overhear, and make a fancy Twitter background that clearly labels me a “social media” guy.
However, I can admit I know a thing or two about managing a newspaper’s social media footprint.
Here’s the video proof.