http://janetleejohnson.com Technology for Marketers, Marketing for Technologists Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:58:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My life was pretty much transformed when I met the Mac. I discovered technology I could relate to the year the Mac was born, when the two halves of my brain were finally united in a Macintosh 128K. Yesterday, I learned of Steve Jobs' death while sitting at my generations improved ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/10/06/rip-steve-jobs/ I read the most fascinating book this summer, by Nicholas Carr, called The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. It's up for a Pulitzer prize this year. Here's the deal. Most of us (especially "information workers") have the attention spans of gnats, as adults. And our attention is being pulled ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/09/15/are-we-losing-one-of-our-rs/ Talk about mining the best of the world's collective spirit! My lovely has been enchanted by Pinterest for some time. She has been devouring collections of all sorts of things people have collected there. This delightful little community is simply "a virtual pinboard. collect the things you love." Well. Talk about enchantment. In ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/08/10/enchanting-pinterest/ Fabulous post from long-time (12 years!) blogger Anil Dash - talking about social responsibility in a new way. New information from IDC on the sheer growth of data - digital data is 10x what it was five years ago - and zettabytes are the new exabytes! Meanwhile, people wonder why we're tired by the ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/07/21/social-responsibility-and-zettabytes/ I had every intention of blogging today to start my week off perfectly. But I can't really concentrate on marketing technology (beyond my already scheduled work today) because my dad is in the hospital up north. He came down (pretty suddenly) with pneumonia, and has to hang out in the ... http://janetleejohnson.com/2011/06/13/light-flowing-from-pdx-to-longview/