As this week’s news headlines swirl with the Facebook IPO frenzy, I was surprised to see General Motors (GM) – (yes, THAT GM, the one U.S. taxpayers still own a portion of) – try to get in on the action and announced plans to stop advertising on the site because – in a nutshell – [...]

We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at, and talking to people about, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as part of an initiative we are working on here at Elasticity. It’s been an interesting learning experience, and one of the centers of the crowdsourcing universe is, quite aptly, Crowdsourcing.org, which tracks the space. If the term [...]

The very funny website SocialMediaDouchebag (SMDB) begins by asking us, “Do you want to learn how to use Web 2.0 Social Media to become a millionaire overnight? How would you like to increase your Twitter followers by eleventy-billion in 3.68 seconds? Do you want to use Twitter to make a gazillion dollars through affiliate marketing [...]

Last week, as part of my regular column for Forbes, I wrote a piece called “St. Louis Doesn’t Suck” that struck a nerve with a number of current and former St. Louisans, as more than 120,000 people had read it as of this post. Clearly, something clicked. I had moved here six years ago and [...]