So, after being in technology for more or less all of my adult life I am embarrassed to say that I have NOT been on the leading edge of those trends collectively called ‘Social Networking’. In fact, I have been something of a Social Networking Pariah, having only recently moved myself (largely through threats [...]

With out-of-control flooding across parts of Iowa, lots of small businesses are finding themselves putting disaster recovery measures into action. The result is a sobering dose of reality that has shown many companies where their planning really prepared them, and where it really didn’t. “When you make [disaster recovery] plans, you never think it could [...]

Thursday morning the Wall Street journal ran a review of a book by freelance writer Maggie Jackson called Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. As described by reviewer David Robinson, the book is “a searching look at . . . the distractions that technology has helped to bring about.” The book [...]