Hi, I'm Tommy. I'm a writer, designer, tech geek, hiker, golfer, and sometime photographer. I live just outside St. Louis, Missouri (Illinois side). I currently work as a freelance technology and interactive marketing consultant.
As a marketing professional it never ceases to amaze me how many pitiful presentations I’ve been forced to sit through. During webinars, in business meetings, or conferences where I (insert my employer) paid a large sums of money for me to attend.
Folks using default PowerPoint templates, terrible clip art they purchased at Best […]
Wow! According to Wired Alienware plans to offer “humungous wraparound DLP rear-projection monitors to gamers, sporting 2880×900 screen resolutions and a surprisingly modest footprint.” Wired also notes it won’t be “won’t be available until late 2008 at the earliest.” Can I pre-order one now please?
Hillary Clinton’s quick fall from the defacto Democratic nominee to fighting for her political life and/or future is simple. It is because of Mark Penn, or I should say because of the two positions he holds within Clinton’s presidential campaign.
First a little background. Penn is the worldwide CEO of the PR firm Burson-Marsteller (B-M), the […]
BusinessWeek is reporting that the The Miami Herald has decided to outsource some of its advertising production work to India-based Mindworks. Starting this month copyediting and design in a weekly section of Broward County edition as well as other special advertising sections will be handled in New Delhi. This is on-top recent news that The […]
I have just about had it with Outlook ‘07. Of course I would prefer Thunderbird, but use Outlook cause I am totally addicted to OneNote and the integration between the two apps is nothing short of amazing.And since Outlook ‘07 can also handle RSS feeds I use this feature as well. Again there are many […]
I am totally confused by MSNBC’s running reruns all day yesterday and today. I mean I get there are college football games on and who can’t want to watch a Monk marthon for the 50th time, but people are off work and maybe a few of us are news junkies.
I kind of thought MSNBC was […]
As I’ve mentioned in the past Gilbert Arenas (aka Agent Zero) is one of my favorite sports figures. I mean he even writes his own blog that isn’t filtered by some PR flak. Well I guess when my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said Agent Zeros TS Lightswitch Gil EA […]
Well this is an interesting story. CNN is going to open up an I-Report hub in the virtual world of Second Life. For those of you not in the “know” Second life is a three-dimensional virtual world pretty much created by users. I personally have never understood the all the “buzz,” although I admit I’ve […]
As you might expect, Time Magazine, like everybody else in the world has a whole lot of Top 10 lists (Quotes, Buzzwords, Viral Videos). Here is their list of the best ads of 2007. To be honest, not sure if I agree with a single one of them.
Google has released their ‘07 Zeitgeist report. Basically an analysis of all their search results to give you a picture of what folks are doing on the intertubes. Always an interesting read.
It wasn’t that long ago, 2004 to be precise, when SPAM only made up 70 percent of all email sent. In 2001 it was 5 percent. Well a new report from Barracuda Networks indicate that number has changed to 95 percent. With these stats it is clear the CAN-SPAM Act has done absolutely nothing to […]
Jon Hicks has put together a wonderful slideshow of typography from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. His Flickr photo stream is here. Neat overview if you like this type of stuff.
