Today on my ritual morning run to Starbucks, I had the pleasure of seeing several neighborhood children get ready to meet the bus for their first day of school.
The children were beaming, excited.
Parents were smiling ear to ear, taking pictures, giving hugs and words of excited reassurance.
Above all there was the feeling of a new […]

Image via Wikipedia A post on colorful Scottish dialect got me thinking we have some colorful language of our own here in the U.S. Last year I picked up a wonderful little book, Cowboy Slang, by Edgar R. “Frossty” Potter, to help me develop a cowboy cartoon character I was working on at the time. […]

Back several years when I was managing a very successful sales division, I was in a bar with my assistant sales manager waiting for a giant prospect to show up for an introductory meeting. My associate and I were on top of the world, puffed up with pride. Over our vodkas on the rocks we […]

A post on the Zemanta blog publishing assistant drew a comment from the folks at Kaalga. Kaalga is a Firefox extension (in Beta, I believe) that uses –
OpenCalais (Reuters) semantic API to suggest phrases in your text suitable for linking, and Google search to present relevant links for selected phrases.
Amit Aviv and Ori Mosinzon from […]

Today’s Word Nerd quiz is really easy! There’s only going to be two choices for the correct definition. What do you think portmanteau means?
A. A large leather suitcase that opens into two compartments
B. A new word formed by combining elements of two words and their meanings
The correct definition of portmanteau is … both! (I told […]

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAbout a month ago I switched email clients from Microsoft Outlook to Google Gmail. Having used Outlook since the beginning of time, this was a major switch, and I wanted to give myself time to adjust before comparing the two products. If you’re thinking of switching one way or the […]

The more I use Twitter, the more I like it. I mainly use it to …

Chat with friends
Exchange business oriented links and tips
Exchange links just for fun

But there seem to be a million other things to do on Twitter, including following some non-person Twitter identities (There must be a name for these in Twitter lingo […]