If everybody loves Super Bowl ads, then why don't advertisers always make Super Bowl-quality ads?

February 8, 2010

If everybody loves the ads during the Super Bowl, yet complain about ads in most all other programming, wouldn’t it be in an advertiser’s best interest to make the ads that appear the other 364 days of the year as appealing and as entertaining as Super Bowl ads? The reason we like Super Bowl ads […]

Continue Reading

Cool and not-so-cool from 'Teens in Tech' Conference

February 6, 2010

How is it I could learn more from the “Teens in Tech” conference than any other conference? A teenager’s passion in tech can get you inspired as well.

Continue Reading

VIDEO: What are you learning from teens at the 'Teens in Tech' Conference?

February 6, 2010

Talking to a few of the adults at the conference, I asked them, what are you learning from the teens presenting and attending the conference? In the video are Harry McCracken, Robert Scoble, Sam Levin, Daniel Brusilovsky, Carlos Rodela, and Michael Nelson of Google. Make sure to also read my summary of the event, “Cool […]

Continue Reading

Where it all started: 'The Baywatch Report'

February 6, 2010

It’s time for a little Dave Spark trivia. While I’ve written, produced, and appeared in and on more than 30 media outlets, there’s one place where it all started, and that was on radio in Chicago. I used to host a silly segment called “The Baywatch Report” on the most popular morning drive show, “The […]

Continue Reading

My podcast listening lineup for 2010

January 27, 2010

An updated list of my favorite podcasts (audio and video) with descriptions and why I like them.

Continue Reading

Personal productivity tips I actually use every day

January 26, 2010

I try to be as productive as possible so I’m sharing tools and techniques I use every single day to improve my productivity in terms of organizing information and managing communications.

Continue Reading

One quarter of all people who friend me on Facebook don’t respond to personal messages

January 24, 2010

Amazing how 25 percent of people who send me personal invitations on Facebook flat out will not respond to personal messages. If I don’t get a response from my personal follow up I don’t accept the friend request.

Continue Reading

Cranky Geeks asks, "Are we living in a Googleopoly?"

January 14, 2010

Yesterday, on Cranky Geeks, John C. Dvorak and co-host Sebastian Rupley, argued with myself and Cade Metz, U.S. editor of The Register. We complained about Google claiming that it’s going to pull its operations out of China, me getting uninvited to a press party, and my favorite, sex robots! Watch the 30 minute show.

Continue Reading

Is Google dominating or leading the way?

January 10, 2010

I appeared on KQED Friday night to discuss what was Google’s real plan with the release of the Nexus One, a.k.a. the Google Phone. Are they intent on world domination or are they paving the way?

Continue Reading

Pepcom: We'd like to invite you to a party that we don't want you to attend

December 21, 2009

Great tale of how Pepcom invited me to an event and then revoked my invitation even though they’d been inviting me for the past six years. Many journalists have fallen to Pepcom’s uninvite axe.

Continue Reading

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →