How many times do I have to remind you all: Text messages are *not* private. If you plan to deflate footballs to the liking of your quarterback in exchange for memorabilia, communicate in person. Only in person. By now you know that the NFL has sort-of-kind-of found the Super Bowl-winning [Keep reading]
If we sat watching the squiggly, scrambled TV signal long enough, occasionally images would snap into place. It seemed crazy, but it wasn’t. Without watching the scrambled signal, I would have no idea what Mike Bossy looked like in his white sweater. The tiny glimpses helped fill in the pictures [Keep reading]
By now, you’ve do doubt heard about a lawsuit alleging that Purina’s Beneful dog food is dangerous. Depending on the social media post of a link to a story about another social media post that you re-posted, you might now believe that thousands of of dogs (3,000? 4,000?) have died [Keep reading]
As a committed tech skeptic, I am often wrong =) Technology does wonderful, often magical things for the world, but there’s nothing more magical than those who do work on accessibility. I was lucky enough to be included in a beautiful TODAY show piece Friday by colleague and friend Kerry [Keep reading]
Has Black Friday jumped the shark? And it if has, is that a bad thing? Some $7 billion went missing this weekend, according to early estimates from the National Retail Federation. (Sales for the four-day weekend dropped from $57.4 billion last year to $50.9 billion this year). Mayday! The golden [Keep reading]
If I hear one more analyst say this is a golden age of journalism, my head will explode. That’s a terrible disservice to the thousands of former journalists who have been forced out of this noble profession in recent years. If you aren’t scared about the future of journalism, and [Keep reading]
Everything we do, kind or evil, ripples through life like the waves that violently and then gently ripple out from a peddle dropped in a pond. Every act, part of a fabric. Many times, we won’t even live to see the consequences of our actions; or they are so distant [Keep reading]
Happy birthday! I’m one year old. Well, this site is one year old. After almost 20 years working in the NBC/MSNBC universe, I struck out on my own last year, with great trepidation. The Red Tape Chronicles became BobSullivan.net. Honestly, I was worried that nobody (outside my mom) would follow [Keep reading]
CNN ran a story this weekend attacking U.S. Catholic church leaders for lavish living in valuable homes, and hired a private appraisal firm to make its point. In the story, CNN said that New York City’s archbishop lives in a building valued at $30 million. I Tweeted at the reporter [Keep reading]
There’s something primal about the reaction you have when spotting a desperate “Lost Dog” sign posted on a tree or in a coffee shop. If you’re like me, you picture a little boy crying nightly for his lost friend; a guilt-ridden parent wondering what he or she could have done; [Keep reading]
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