If you use the Internet, social networks or mobile apps, then I can guarantee that advertising-technology companies are tracking and mining your personal data to enable marketers to personalize experiences and more effectively market to you.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Technology & Life
Talking Online Safety With Your Kids
What is a website, Daddy?
That was the response from my five-year old when I asked him to name his favorite website. (For the record, the accompanying picture is not my son.)
I found his response insightful. While he doesn’t know what the words “website” and “Internet” mean, he and his three-year-old sister absolutely know how to navigate around YouTube and Flickr, and make video Skype calls with friends and family.… Read the rest
MediaPost OnlineSpin – The Return
I just returned to my weekly OnlineSpin column at MediaPost, following a year-and-a-half break.
Why the pause?
First, I needed to invest more of myself into my late-stage startup.
Second, I have young children between the ages of three and five.… Read the rest
Olin Stephens and Dorade
“In all phases of my work I was conscious of the need for balance, and I did my best to find balance in both the long and the short view. Broadly I think I can say that I applied the principles of balance in design, in business and in the pleasures I enjoyed.”
Those were the words of legendary yacht designer Olin Stephens, from the final paragraph of his autobiography.… Read the rest
Internet Security For Your Family
I’m participating in Trend Micro’s Digital Joneses Study, a year-long project that brings together bloggers and their families to “examine issues affecting individual members of a modern, digitally-connected household.”
(One notable Jones includes one of my fellow Cast of Dads co-hosts, Michael Sheehan of HighTechDad.… Read the rest