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
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
My five-year-old son Julian did this driveway chalk drawing in about five minutes.
I took the picture from our deck for a perpendicular, top-down view.
In case you can’t tell, it’s a house with a steeple, sun shining, a pink “box tree”, an underground house and a water pipe traveling through the tree to the main house.… Read the rest
My dad (aka “Grandeddy”) recently gave Julian, my oldest child, his first bike with training wheels.
We’ve been riding every weekend for three months. Julian’s been building strength in pedaling.… Read the rest
The “Man Cave”.Marketers objectify it endlessly.
Has the man cave jumped the shark?
Adam Tschorn thinks so and explains in the LA Times:
… Read the restThe spirit of the man cave has been co-opted by so many marketers hawking grill tools, barware and even neon lights in the shape of the words “man cave” (in case it needs to be spelled out for the fairer sex, one presumes) that if we don’t roll a boulder to block the mouth of the cave now, the strip-mining will continue unabated until Hallmark rolls out a line of man cave cards (“Greetings from the grotto!”)
