I traveled to Vimpeli, Finland for pesäpallo playoff game. Vimpeli, who are two years removed from back-to-back Finnish championships were taking on the defending champs from Joensuu, about 4.5 hours to the east. …

This has been the weirdest year of albums for me. Normally, I’m consuming as much of the newest music that people release as soon as I can get my hands on it. This year? …

News feeds & discovery — Since the demise of Rdio (RIP), there hasn’t been a great place online besides forums and random slack channels to talk about music. The problem with most of these existing places are the difficulties involved in joining conversations, memes, and the cultural mores of networks that you join too late…

A few times a year, I will binge on simulator computer games. …

An unlikely story of fandom from afar — I’ve been trying for a while to tell anyone who’d listen about Pesapallo, the sport that’s a close cousin to American baseball. …

Social’s newest app — Peach — exposes faulty tech thinking, that we should be talking to only to people we already know. — Networks are nifty. When you do the work to cultivate one, that is. For some of us, that work starts in high school or college. After a few jobs, you cobble together a nice network of folks who you stay in and out of touch with over the years. When…

An obituary for the content management system — This post is really a more fleshed out reprise of my ‘3am keynote’ from #psuweb and thus is primarily focused on higher education websites. But if anyone is using a CMS, it applies. Most colleges started with a webmaster. One person in a room someplace updating a web…

The road to thoughtful web leadership begins with experts who know their craft. — Strategy Strategy Strategy. It’s all the rage these days. It’s extended to higher ed, where we’re usually the last to get to anything. Social media strategy, Digital Strategy, Content Strategy. Strategymania! As someone whose career began at a time when many institutions out of the first tier were legitimately asking…