Loud & Clear

tech secrets and trends for 2009

If you have 30mins to watch this video, it’s totally worth it. New York Times columnist David Pogue gives the trends and awesome little known tech secrets.

I was totally going to give you a quick run down, but I had to watch it to get them, so you get to do the same. Then we’ll totally be in this elite secret tech-smart club and we can laugh at all those too busy or lazy to watch the whole thing. Of course, if you already know all these things, you’ll just laugh at me for thinking I’m on the early swing. But, whatever. You know I’m still cool.

what’s your blog saying?

From a couple fellow tweets, I got this.

What’s your blog saying? Find out here.

social networking now more popular than porn

Can you believe it? A decade ago, the only reason (I was told) people used the internet was to access porn. For 10 years porn has still been the hottest (pardon the expression) searched and visited topic on the web.

Well, it’s finally happened. The reign of porn appears to be over. Or at least failing.

“…surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking sites,” says Bill Tancer in his new book Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters

Now I know many of you still don’t fully get this whole social networking thing. You’re just discovering Facebook. And many of you think you just don’t have time for Twitter.

But I’m here to tell you, this is the future. And, unlike the prior internet king, this one has the potential to enrich your life, not destroy it.

Then again, people get addicted to all kinds of things. Moderation- it’s a wonderful thing.

To help explain to you folks who still don’t get the whole social network thing, here’s a stripped down explanation of social networking.