Auteur: Ken Mueller

As I was walking Shadow yesterday morning, I was marveling at the beauty of the leaves on the trees as they change colors. Many of them had fallen as the result of Sandy’s winds and rain, but even on the ground they looked rather idyllic. And then I remembered: I have to rake them up […]

I love Halloween. Always have and probably always will, even though the Tylenol scares of the eighties and ensuing madness have pretty much stripped the holiday of much of it’s fun. Today we celebrate Halloween between certain hours, and on certain days (in Lancaster we celebrated the night before Halloween this year, while Harrisburg had […]

Image via Wikipedia A version of this post was originally published in 2010. One of the most famous broadcasts of all time is Orson Welles’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. Performed live on October 30, 1938 on the CBS radio program, Mercury Theatre on the Air, the program has become legendary because […]

My wife is trying to kill me. She recently read this book, French Women Don’t Get Fat, and apparently one of the reasons French women don’t get fat is because they drink a lot of water. OK, they do a lot of other things as well, but my wife’s big takeaway was: Drink a lot […]

We’re at a bit of a crossroads here on the Internet. Technology is advancing at an amazingly rapid pace, and we, the users, are having a hard time keeping up. One problem we are now facing is that we want to have our cake and eat it, too. Nearly every day I hear or see […]

Last week I wrote about the Next Big Social Network, and how those of us in the business are keeping our eyes open, while the general public really doesn’t care. In fact, most of the general public would be happy if things pretty much stayed the same, with a few dominant social networks. They’re happy […]

I like to watch people. When I’m in public I’ll just sit there and observe people, how they behave, and how they interact with others. I try to figure out things about them and their life. I do the same thing online, particular as I look through my Twitter feed and Facebook newsfeed. One thing […]

Very often when someone calls me about working with them on their social media and online presence, I find that I have an uphill battle. Not with the person who contacted me; they’re usually on board and already “get it”. But there are two other internal groups that might require a little bit of education […]

I woke up yesterday morning and logged onto Facebook, opened my email, signed on to Twitter, and checked my RSS feed. This is part of my normal routine, but for some reason I think I was playing closer attention to some of the items I was seeing. I felt as if I was seeing more […]