by Whitney | Feb 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
I met my husband, Matt, as an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania. When people ask how we met, I say I hit him over the head with a newspaper, but that’s only part of the story- the punch line of a romance that continues now for 24 years, although...
by Whitney | Feb 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Let me preface this post by saying I think of myself as an average suburban mom. I am a democrat, which is unusual in the republican stronghold where I live. I have an ivy-league education, and my own podcast about education issues. I am sure some of my...
by Whitney | Feb 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
I have the Comcast triple play at home. Cable, TV, Internet. The service can be spotty from time to time. The service went out sporadically for several days at a time recently, without any prior notice or acknowledgement of the problem, except for dealing with my...
by Whitney | Feb 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Tech Crunch is reporting that Revver is in trouble and willing to sell itself cheaply, having accumulated almost $1 million in debt. Microsoft is launching a hostile bid for Yahoo. This smells a lot like the late 1980’s merger and acquisition market, now moved...
by Whitney | Feb 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Chris Brogan asked a question on his blog -Is social media built more for PR types? Is the value there much easier to define than the value for marketers? It generated a lot of comments, mostly in the “PR is part of marketing” vein. For me, social media,...