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by Michael Benidt on January 10, 2013

Lately I’ve been ignoring Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and pretty much the rest of the “cloudy with a chance of anything” world of technology. I’ve been hiking, listening to music and reading books.

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Banks Make Facebook’s Privacy Look Secure

by Michael Benidt on June 15, 2012

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Gary Ujifusa got paid well for 28 years by a Fortune 200 company to travel and conditionally learn new things. Now, he’s retired and his travel and learning are non-conditional and unpaid. He finds this to be a great trade.

Much has been written (here and elsewhere) about Facebook’s intrusion into our lives. After reading this website’s blog article, Armed and Not Dangerous, I wondered why I was not more concerned and upset about Facebook’s “what’s in my brain” algorithms.

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Ed Abbey and Me

by Michael Benidt on October 13, 2011

It’s time to admit something. It’s time for therapy. It’s time to let you all know just how disappointed I am in you. Don’t take it personally. It’s my problem. I’m getting help for it. Promise.

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Armed and Not Dangerous

by Michael Benidt on June 27, 2011

Someone asked me recently, “What exactly do you do, Michael?” I thought for a minute and then said, “Well, Joe, I help you stay away from Natsume Mikamoto Untayao.” It’s not as easy a job as you may think.

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Experts? Yes, at Selling You

June 3, 2011

When is a “social media expert” a true social media expert, and when are they just frauds? It’s all in their claims, those overblown pitches they’re sure you’ll never check.

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With Friends Like That….

February 2, 2011

How in the world did you become friends with “Hung So Low” on Facebook? Well, I’ll tell you – it was actually very easy. It was “Clyde Sdale’s” fault.

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Facebook Gets a Little Too Personal, Once Again!!

November 8, 2010

By guest writer, Brittany Macchiarola Brittany Macchiarola is a senior public relations major at Kent State University. She also interns at Flash Communications where she writes about sustainability efforts at Kent State. We connected with Brittany on Twitter – @brittmacc. Facebook’s new “Friendship Pages” may have you wanting to change your privacy settings immediately. Maybe [...]

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Microsoft Shouts Out for Seniors

July 15, 2010

Sometimes you just want to sing the Hallelujah Chorus from the rooftops. Yesterday, a friend of ours got recognized – in front of thousands of people – and by just about the biggest company in the world. How was your day?

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I Don’t Like You and You Don’t Like Me

June 8, 2010

I got a problem. Can you relate? Most of the people I used to like on Facebook, some of them even a lot, I don’t “Like” anymore. I blame Mark Zuckerberg.  

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Scare the Facebook Out of You

April 21, 2010

Facebook is scary. LinkedIn is treacherous. MySpace is downright dangerous. We’ve all heard the warnings… and most of us ignore them. But, read a couple of recent best-sellers and it might scare the social media pants right off of you.

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