Chances are you watched the Oscars Sunday evening. 41.3 million of us did to be exact - a 14 percent increase from the 2009 show and the highest in five years. Was it because the best picture category expanded to 10 nominees to include something for everybody? Was it because one of the night’s key films was the biggest movie ever? [...]

In my short time in the professional world, it’s become clear that the nerds will soon rule the world.  Employers are looking for candidates who know an industry and have the technical toolkit to help adapt to new economic models. It’s a rough scene  for the nerd-impaired: venn diagrams pass for humor, and you couldn’t [...]

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Can you feel sorry for a jerk? I’m talking about Steven Payne, the theater executive at Evergreen Entertainment who told a customer to go [expletive] herself after she complained of a bad experience at a movie in St. Croix [...]

The Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association hosted a panel discussion last week on the state of “emerging technologies” and predictions for 2010. “Social marketing, cloud computing, geo-location, oh my” was the first sentence of the official event description, and I assure you, Wednesday morning would have been a great time to play buzzword bingo.
Beyond the buzzwords, [...]

I take it at least a few of you have seen “Hoarders,” the hit A&E reality show that looks inside the lives of people “whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis.” I had not seen an episode until reading this Rob Walker NY [...]

One of the great parts of shopping online for Christmas gifts is how easy it is to shift your focus to the stuff that you want.  One minute I’m looking at gardening books for my mom, and the next I’m browsing backpacks and high-end bikes.  This is how I discovered the hole in my life [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz this week about Facebook’s new privacy policy. Basically, Facebook set up new defaults that open your personal information to search engines, thereby opening your posts, friends and photos to a lot more people. You can dial back your privacy settings, but they didn’t make it easy or intuitive.
Why did they do [...]

At this week’s Google’s Search Event (yes, that’s what it was called), the search giant made huge news with its announcement of real-time search: Google is applying its search ninja skills to the world of the real-time Web, putting updates from Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and elsewhere right alongside traditional Web pages, blog posts and online [...]

With the busy holiday season upon us, I suspect I’m not the only one who wishes she had a personal assistant.  However, if you’re like me and don’t have it in the budget to put an assistant on the payroll, you may be interested in the list of online resources that Danielle Kyrollis (Editor-at-Large of [...]

Sure, there are detractors who say Chad Ochocinco (formerly Chad Johnson) is brash, a diva and needs to shut up – I just happen to not be one of those people. I have him on my fantasy football squads and even if he wasn’t playing well – which is not the case - I wouldn’t trade him just for [...]