Podcasts: The Underground Great Media Movement?

Podcasts: The Underground Great Media Movement?

I never really started listening to podcasts until this year. I falsely believed that they wouldn’t be interesting or entertaining. I don’t know why, much like I don’t know why I naturally avoid pickles and mustard. It just happens. Luckily, podcasts became the pickle...

How to Use the Internet to Make a Difference

If you haven’t watched the short film Caine’s Arcade, drop what you’re doing and do so now: Caine’s Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo. Caine’s Arcade is a short film about a 9-year-old boy in L.A. that built an entire arcade out of cardboard in a section of...
Five Amazing iPad Apps

Five Amazing iPad Apps

As a new iPad owner, I immediately set out on an online journey to found out what the “cool” apps were. I ventured over to the tech kings like Mashable and Mac|Life, I took my chances on Google SERPs, and the result turned out to be pretty amazing, especially for...
2012 Love VoxBox

2012 Love VoxBox

I was lucky enough to receive the 2012 Love VoxBox from influenster earlier this month. Contained in the box were Kiss nail appliques, truvia and ghirardelli samples, a box of tea bags from Stash Tea, and a set of the Gillette Venus moisturizing razor. I was super...
Do You Pay For Apps?

Do You Pay For Apps?

As a new iPhone owner (made the switch last week after my HTC Evo speaker was going in and out and got into some shady malware apps), I was eager to download all the existing apps I had on my Android, as well as finally download all the games and apps clients,...
Round-Up: What I Learned at SXSWi 2012

Round-Up: What I Learned at SXSWi 2012

By Kelsey Jones Bethaney and I are on a plane right now, waiting to head back home to Kansas after being in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive this week. To say that SXSWi was information overload would almost be an understatement. There are was so many...
So I Met Rainn Wilson…

So I Met Rainn Wilson…

True story. I can’t believe it myself. Twenty-four hours ago, I smashed a guitar on stage at SXSWi in front of 1000 people with Rainn Wilson from The Office. Eight hours ago, I semi-stole this photo from Getty Images: Then the photographer told me about this Mashable...
How Paid Content Drives Away Website Traffic

How Paid Content Drives Away Website Traffic

By Kelsey Jones While researching or reading up on a certain topic or current event, one of the most frustrating things in the world is to be taken to a snippet of the article and to be told that to read the entire article, one needs to sign up for a paid membership...
The Social Robot: Live from SXSWi

The Social Robot: Live from SXSWi

By Kelsey Jones Bethaney and I will be joining the rest of the other tech nerds next week for South by Southwest Interactive, a conference that boasts these impressive stats: Interactive Conference Participants: 19,364 Interactive Conference Sessions: 935 Approximate...
How to Create a WordPress Plugin From Scratch

How to Create a WordPress Plugin From Scratch

By Kelsey Jones Most developers know how to add and install WordPress plugins and even write WordPress themes from scratch, but also learning how to write and develop WordPress plugins can also be an invaluable skill. Many developers release free WordPress plugins to...