Being married to a photographer, I often feel ridiculous when she hands me her digital SLR. It has a gazillion settings and I panic whenever it migrates off the auto setting. I understand the basics of photography, but for some reason I forget them all when I get a camera in my hands. Perhaps you’re […]
Technology
WotW: Taking Care of Your Digital Life After You’re Dead
If you die, and no one is around to see it, who gets all your email? Weird question, but it bears asking. If you die, what happens to all your online data? Is it really yours? Does it become the property of your nearest relative? Do online companies have an obligation to release that data […]
WotW: Educate Your Parents on Social Media
Last week, I was at dinner at my parent’s place when my mom started talking about the last blog post I wrote about hashtags. Not only was I surprised she read my post, but that reading blogs was even part of her routine. She told me the post was really helpful because she had […]
WotW: Demystifying the overused and poorly understood hashtag
When we were in school, we endured hours of grammar and punctuation lessons, which most of us promptly forgot and never used, opting instead to remember the lyrics to Michael Jackson songs. Still, most of us can function and write a semi-coherent sentence. Then social media came along and changed the rules to everything. […]
WotW: Build Your Own (Digital) Mix Tape with Songdrop
Anybody else remember spending hours listening to the radio with your finger on the record button of your tape deck, waiting for your favorite song to air so you could record it and make the ultimate mix tape? I sadly admit to making many of these mix tapes. Today, we have a number of devices […]