Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

While many people see Martha Stewart as just another craft and cooking show host, she’s actually a brilliant marketer, founder, and executive. She’s in an exclusive club: not too many people found a company and manage to take it public while staying CEO…

Forbes has the news that the University of Florida is basically eliminating their computer science department. As a UF graduate who took several CS classes and have friends who graduated with CS degrees and are very successful, this is, in one word: shameful.

As William Gibson famously said: the future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed. Google (my employer) recently released this video sharing a real life example of what it’s like to be behind the wheel of a self-driving car:

Must we go through this every year? Social media is still not new. It wasn’t new last year. Or the year before. In fact, it hasn’t been new for well over a decade. The web was social from day one, even if the term was popularized later on.

The New York Times recently ran a story titled The Dwindling Power of a College Degree. This is news to me as someone not quite 30, but at one point, according to The Times, a college degree apparently provided a virtual lock on a well-paying job.

Social media spam is not a new phenomenon. Back in the 90s and early 00s forum days, I moderated several music / geek boards and had to deal with marketers who tried to comment or link spam conversations.